Municipal waste generation per capita
Scope
Circular economy
Action line
Production and consumption
Type of indicator (global, European, national)
Global
Correlation with other sets of indicators
SDG: 11.6.1.1
Description
Municipal waste collected by management companies per inhabitant
Calculation method
$$\frac{\textit{Municipal waste generation}^{t}}{\textit{P}^{t}} \cdot 100$$
,where \(P^{t}\) is the population on July 1st, the year t.
Unit of measure
Kilograms per capita
Periodicity
Annual
Disaggregated data(Gender, age, region in Spain, other)
Come from National Statistics Plan (YES/NO)
Yes
Statistical operation
Statistics on the Collection and Treatment of Waste (ISO code: 30079)
Responsible institution
Link to Eurostat metadata
Date of the last metadata update
05/06/2024
Observations
The collection of municipal waste includes domestic waste and commercial or industrial waste which comes under municipal jurisdiction, collected in urban containers, at clean points, or other municipal collection systems. It also includes waste from street cleaning and biodegradable waste from cleaning parks and gardens.