Type of plant | Waste treatment plants, total | Total input | Of which | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
wastes produced on site | wastes delivered by | ||||
domestic producers | foreign producers | ||||
number | 1,000 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). | |||||
Landfills | 987 | 33,884.2 | 5,449.2 | 27,839.2 | 595.8 |
Landfill construction1 | 319 | 9,716.9 | - | 9,716.9 | - |
Thermal waste treatment plants | 164 | 25,385.2 | 1,455.7 | 22,811.4 | 1,118.0 |
Combustion plants with energy recovery | 465 | 20,852.6 | 3,395.9 | 16,193.0 | 1,263.7 |
Chemical-physical treatment plants | 383 | 6,928.0 | 1,654.1 | 4,870.6 | 403.3 |
Soil treatment plants | 103 | 3,947.0 | 25.4 | 3,869.6 | 52.1 |
Biological treatment plants | 1,202 | 16,014.0 | 2,918.1 | 12,997.1 | 98.8 |
Mechanical (-biological) waste treatment plants | 44 | 3,331.0 | 15.7 | 3,288.7 | 26.6 |
Dismantling plants for end-of-life vehicles | 1,026 | 291.1 | - | 288.4 | 2.8 |
Shredding plants and scrap shears | 772 | 14,639.6 | 460.8 | 13,590.6 | 588.2 |
Sorting plants | 956 | 23,398.8 | 269.9 | 22,405.3 | 723.6 |
Dismantling plants for discarded electrical and electronic equipment | 304 | 903.2 | 37.6 | 806.9 | 58.7 |
Other treatment plants2 | 1,039 | 29,190.2 | 3,215.7 | 23,873.3 | 2,101.1 |
Construction and demolition waste treatment plants3 | 2,680 | 72,898.7 | - | 72,898.7 | - |
Asphalt mixing plants using hot-mix processes3 | 453 | 14,513.4 | - | 14,513.4 | - |
Plants for the disposal of mining wastes | 13 | 27,470.6 | 27,470.6 | - | - |
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at surface extraction sites | 2,635 | 78,064.1 | 1,113.0 | 76,360.1 | 591.0 |
Backfilling of non-mining wastes at underground extraction sites | 21 | 2,915.1 | 188.1 | 2,543.1 | 183.9 |
Waste treatment plants, total | 13,566 | 384,343.7 | 47,669.8 | 328,866.2 | 7,807.6 |
As at 24 April 2025