Purposes

Have regular, representative and comparable data available regarding the management and use of waste, for the purpose of assessing national and community policy on this environmental area.

Institutions that intervene

INE, Councils/Departments with jurisdiction regarding all of the Autonomous Communities, MARM.

General description (main variables)

Amount of waste generated, by type of waste; amount of waste collected, incinerated, eliminated. Type of waste, according to the European Waste Catalogue (EWC). By a combination of census and sample.

Collective

Companies, institutional units

Frequency of data collection

Anual

Breakdown

Autonómica

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2009-2012  (in thousands euros)

4,380.03