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 Sectorial waste per capita (kg/ inhab.)
Characteristic Description
Name Sectorial waste per capita (kg/ inhab.) by Type of waste (CER-stat) and Type of waste management operation; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Environmental survey - sectoral waste
First available period 2008
Last available period 2022
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Type of waste (CER-stat)
  • Type of waste management operation
Concepts
  • WASTE PRODUCER:  Anyone who is the initial waste producer or who carries out pre-processing, mixing or other operations, leading to a change in that waste's nature or composition.
  • SECTORIAL WASTE:  Waste produced within economic activities with production processes that generate waste different from waste generated by families in their homes.
  • WASTE MANAGEMENT:  The characteristic activities of waste management include: collection, transport, storage, treatment, recovery and disposal of waste, including monitoring the discharge sites after the respective facilities have been closed down, as well as planning these activities. Waste management aims, above all, to prevent or reduce the harmfulness of waste, namely through recycling and changing the production processes, by adopting cleaner technologies, as well as alerting the economic agents and the consumers. In terms of subsidies, waste management aims at recovering waste, namely through recycling or disposing of it in the appropriate manner.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • WASTE:  Any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard, according Waste Framewok Directive
  • DISPOSAL OF WASTE:  Any operation which is not recovery even when the operation has as a secondary consequence the reclamation of substances or energy.
  • RECOVERY OF WASTE:  Any operation the principal result of which is: a) waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials which would otherwise have been used to fulfil a particular function; b) waste being prepared to fulfil that function, in the plant or in the wider economy.
Formule
Sectorial waste by kind of waste/ Inhabitants
 
Measure unit (symbol) Kilogramme/ Inhabitant (kg/ inhab.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 09/12/2022


information presented in 3/7/2024