Cuentas Medioambientales: Cuenta de los Residuos
Generation of waste by activity sectors and households. National data 
Amount of (hazardous) waste generated, by EWC waste category
Units: tonnes

	Agriculture	Aquaculture and Fishing	Industry (sections B, C and D)	Collection, filtering and distribution of water. collection and treatment of wastewater. Decontamination activities and other waste management services	Collection, treatment and disposal of waste evaluation	Construction	Services (excluding 46.77)	Class 46.77 (Wholesale trade of scrap metal and discarded products)	Households	Total	
01.1: Spent solvents	150	41	150,960	17,711	35,446	4,382	48,042	54	0	256,786	
01.2: Acid, alkaline or salt waste	574	240	338,434	1,134	41,345	16	34,994	764	0	417,501	
01.3: Used oils	7,333	2,929	80,596	19,973	35,116	13,355	187,742	16,677	0	363,721	
01.4: Used chemical catalysts	35	0	1,860	0	514	7	4,287	15	0	6,718	
02: Waste from chemical preparations	7,795	1,057	162,742	3,800	49,516	40,651	246,534	46,412	2,855	561,362	
03.1: Chemical deposits and waste	962	494	381,368	17,927	54,296	883	142,720	1,114	36	599,800	
03.2: Industrial effluent sludge (d.m.e.) (*)	0	0	65,461	2,702	15,872	990	21,160	21	0	106,206	
05: Health care and biological waste	1,122	4	762	0	476	74	76,860	0	0	79,298	
0.6: Metallic waste	24	76	13,063	263	4,405	5,359	8,591	1,914	0	33,695	
07.1: Glass waste	2	0	841	0	7	0	30,702	0	0	31,552	
07.5: Wood waste	1	0	3,114	0	2,169	25	4,072	0	404	9,785	
07.7: Waste containing PCBs	33	0	8,129	14	1,625	129	34	0	0	9,964	
08: Discarded equipment (excluding 08.1 and 08.41)	79	73	9,428	319	1,391	490	65,284	1,153	18,947	97,164	
08.1: Discarded vehicles	222	0	1,207	0	0	1,026	122,350	8,108	793	133,706	
08.41: Battery and accumulator waste	167	88	10,417	864	4,367	437	62,819	20,390	2,505	102,054	
10.2: Mixed and undifferentiated materials	2	348	11,063	0	1,888	4	7,137	0	0	20,442	
10.3: Sorted waste	0	0	51,958	0	3,604	35	7,581	0	0	63,178	
12: Mineral waste (excluding 12.4 and 12.6)	0	0	48,693	14,783	18,116	170,414	18,745	6	0	270,757	
12.4: Combustion waste	2	0	301,195	641	35,120	2	1,051	20	0	338,031	
12.6: Contaminated dredging spoils	1	0	34,105	1,137	5,074	27,642	24,831	58	0	92,848	
13: Solidified, stabilised or vitrified waste	0	0	1,278	14,739	35,457	295	49	2,216	0	54,034	
Total non-hazardous waste	11,303,650	28,156	48,280,442	2,368,828	2,538,945	44,660,247	11,626,517	392,989	24,405,781	145,605,555	
Total hazardous waste	18,504	5,350	1,676,674	96,007	345,804	266,216	1,115,585	98,922	25,540	3,648,602	
Total waste generated	11,322,154	33,506	49,957,116	2,464,835	2,884,749	44,926,463	12,742,102	491,911	24,431,321	149,254,157	
Notes:
1) (*) (d.m.e.)= dry matter equivalent

  EWC: European Waste Catalogue 
Source: National Statistics Institute