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Waste management by waste operations and waste flow

  • Dataset | 09 Feb 2016
Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre

Data on waste flow (imports/exports/trade balance) by country and waste operation (six treatment types -recovery, incineration with energy recovery, other incineration, disposal on land and land treatment and other disposal-) expressed in tonnes of waste.

The database on waste treatment does not include pre-treatment activities (like sorting, drying), but only the final treatment.

The imports and exports of goods (and wastes) are reported according to the Combined Nomenclature (CN-codes). The data are available from Eurostat's COMEXT database which includes detailed statistics on the intra- and extra-trading in goods of all EU Member States. International trade in goods statistics (ITGS) published by Eurostat measure the value and quantity of goods traded between the EU Member States (intra-EU trade) and goods traded by the EU Member States with non-EU countries (extra-EU trade). ‘Goods’ means all movable property.

The waste management indicator set aims at showing how much of a country’s or of the EU’s own waste (in the following referred to as national waste) is actually recycled, incinerated (with energy recovery and without), landfilled or backfilled. This means that the waste management indicator should reflect the treatment of national waste, no matter where it takes place, and it should exclude the waste that is imported from non-EU countries.

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09 Feb 2016

Related organisation(s)Eurostat - Statistical office of the EU
Knowledge service | MetadataBioeconomy Knowledge Centre | Waste disposalWaste incineration
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)Organic wasteTradewastewaste management
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