Progress
On track or target met
On track or target met

Desired direction: Increase in the proportion of hazardous waste recycled

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Headline data

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Year Value Units Series
2010 163.0 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2014 148.8 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2015 150.8 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2019 150.5 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2013 130.5 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2018 149.6 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2020 144.7 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2011 151.2 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2016 148.1 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2017 145.4 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita
2012 137.1 Kg per capita Hazardous waste generated per capita

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Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

(a) Hazardous waste generated per capita; and (b) proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment
Target

12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
Goal

12- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Definition

Hazardous waste generated per capita and proportion of hazardous waste treated by treatment operation (incinerated, landfilled, and recycled) in relation to total hazardous waste generated and treated.
Theoretical formula

Hazardous waste generated per capita

\[RPPC^{t} = \frac{RP^{t}}{P^{t}}\]

where:

$RP^{t} =$ amount of hazardous waste generated in year $t$

$P^{t} =$ population as of July 1 of year $t$


Proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment

\(PRP_{treatment}^{t} = \frac{RP_{treatment}^{t}}{RP^{t}} \cdot 100\)

$RP_{treatment}^{t} =$ amount of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment in year $t$

$RP^{t} =$ total amount of hazardous waste generated and treated in year $t$
Available disaggregations

Waste treatment operation

Province
Frequency

Annual
Observations

R1 treatment operations in accordance with Waste Directive 2008/98/EC.
Data last updated 2025/05/08
Metadata last updated 2025/06/18

Source 1

Department of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability
Organisation Department of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability
Periodicity Annual
Link to data source Hazardous Waste Statistics

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

Chemicals are part of everyday life. There are over 140,000 different substances used in all economic sectors globally. Their benefits are many and so too are their potential to adversely impact human health and the environment if not properly managed. All countries, especially middle- and low-income countries, are facing the complex challenge of managing hazardous waste according to international standards of good practice. The situation is complicated by limited human, financial and/or technical resources.

As such, action is needed to support the sustainable use of chemicals and environmentally sound management of hazardous waste. There is also a rapid increase in the generation of hazardous waste.

Where most of the conventional hazardous wastes are produced in industrial and manufacturing operations, significantamounts are generated in non-industrial sectors, including sludge from the healthcare sector; waste-water treatment plants, waste oils, and waste batteries.

There is also an increase in the complexity of products and unidentified hazardous components like coatings, and/or items which are not hazardous (laminates and multi-layer packaging), but present hazardousness in a variety of ways when improperly discarded and end up in air, water or are burned.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator partially complies with the United Nations metadata.
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 12-4-2.pdf
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