Waste management Waste treatment plants 2023

Waste treatment plants 2023
Type of plantWaste treatment
plants, total
Total inputOf which
wastes
produced
on site
wastes delivered by
domestic
producers
foreign
producers
number1,000 t
1: Landfill construction is counted as a separate facility.
2: Including sewage sludge in digester with Co-Digestion and waste oil recycling plants.
3: Results of the previous year.
- = No figures (exactly zero).
Landfills98733,884.25,449.227,839.2595.8
Landfill construction13199,716.9- 9,716.9-
Thermal waste treatment plants16425,385.21,455.722,811.41,118.0
Combustion plants with energy recovery46520,852.63,395.916,193.01,263.7
Chemical-physical treatment plants3836,928.01,654.14,870.6403.3
Soil treatment plants1033,947.025.43,869.652.1
Biological treatment plants1,20216,014.02,918.112,997.198.8
Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants443,331.015.73,288.726.6
Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles1,026291.1- 288.42.8
Shredding plants and scrap shears77214,639.6460.813,590.6588.2
Sorting plants95623,398.8269.922,405.3723.6
Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment304903.237.6806.958.7
Other treatment plants21,03929,190.23,215.723,873.32,101.1
Construction and demolition waste treatment plants32,68072,898.7- 72,898.7-
Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes345314,513.4- 14,513.4-
Plants for the disposal of mining wastes1327,470.627,470.6- -
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites2,63578,064.11,113.076,360.1591.0
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites212,915.1188.12,543.1183.9
Waste treatment plants, total13,566384,343.747,669.8328,866.27,807.6

As at 24 April 2025

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