1. ESTP_Waste Statistics
The Revision of WStatR and its effects on the data collection
and on the comparability of results

2. New WStatR Commission Regulation (EU) No. 849/2010
Adopted in September 2010
Replacement of Annexes I to III
Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No. 2150/2002
Main legal text is still valid
“Consolidated version” available
Not legally binding but most useful for reference
CONSLEG:2002R2150: :EN:PDF
Manual on Waste Statistics (2010 edition)
Adopted to new legal basis
All chapters reviewed

3. Main changes from r.y.2010 onwards
Alignment of EWC-Stat breakdown in waste generation and treatment
Changed allocation of List of Wastes codes to EWC-Stat
Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown
New recovery operation “backfilling”
Harmonisation of reporting on landfills
Redesigned reporting on waste treatment, without NUTS1 level
Previous changes (since refernce year 2008)
Unit: tonnes
Dry matter only
NACE Rev. 2

4. Alignment of EWC-Stat breakdown (1)
Breakdown by waste categories:
Annex II has the same breakdown as Annex I.
Regional breakdown:
The amounts of treated waste are reported on the national level only instead of NUTS 1 level. Reporting on treatment facilities remains on NUTS2 level.
 The harmonised breakdown will not result in an exact balance between waste generation and waste treatment.
 Breaks in time series!!

5. Alignment of EWC-Stat breakdown (2)

6. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (1) - Overview
Aggregation of EWC-Stat categories 01.4, 02, 03.1 under the headline „Chemical wastes“
New category for „Sludges and liquid wastes from waste treatment“
Metallic wastes: Separation of ferrous and non-ferrous waste
Reorganisation of the category „Animal and vegetal wastes“
Reorganisaiton of mineral waste
Separate category for „Mineral waste from construction and demolition“
Separate category for „Other mineral wastes“
Separate category for „Soils“
Separate category for „Dredging spoils“
New category for “Mineral waste from waste treatment and stabilised wastes“

7. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (2) - Chemical wastes
Until reference year 2008 chemical waste was split into the three categories:
Spent chemical catalysts (01.4)
Chemical preparation wastes (02)
Chemical deposits and residues (03.1)
As of reference year 2010: aggregation of EWC-Stat categories 01.4, 02 and 03.1 under the head line “Chemical waste”
 would lead to an aggregation of more than 200 LoW-codes

8. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (3) - Sludges and liquid wastes from waste treatment
Introduction of the category “Sludges and liquid wastes from waste treatment” (03.3)
New category to be reported as of 2010; wastes were formerly included in the categories
Industrial effluent sludges (03.2)
Common sludges (11)
Chemical preparation wastes (02)
 would allow that all liquid wastes and sludges from chemical physical treatment (CPT), treatment of landfill leachate, waste oil regeneration, and liquids and digestate of anaerobic digestion of MW or animal/vegetal waste to be summarised in one category

9. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (4) – Metallic wastes
Until reference year 2008 all metal wastes (ferrous, non- ferrous and mixed) were reported under one category (EWC-Stat 06)
As of reference year 2010: separation of ferrous and non ferrous waste

10. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (5) – Animal and vegetal wastes
Categories 09.1 and 09.2 were restructured. The sum of both categories should be comparable to the sum of the previous categories 09 (excl and 09.3) and

11. Example: Animal and vegetal wastes

12. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (6) – Mineral waste
Reorganisation
of mineral waste

13. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (7) – Mineral waste
Separate category for mineral waste from construction and demolition (12.1)
These are concrete, bricks, and gypsum waste; insulation materials; mixed construction wastes containing glass, plastics and wood; and waste hydrocarbonised road-surfacing material.
They originate from construction and demolition activities. They are hazardous when containing organic pollutants.
 New category to be reported as of 2010; wastes were formerly included in the category ‘Mineral Waste’ consisting of EWC-Stat 12.1, 12.2,

14. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (8) – Mineral waste
Separate category for other mineral wastes (12.2, 12.3, 12.5)
These are
waste gravel, crushed rocks, waste sand and clays, muds and tailings from extractive industries;
blasting materials, grinding bodies, sludges, particulates and dust from the manufacture of glass, ceramic goods and cement;
casting cores and moulds from the casting of ferrous and non-ferrous pieces;
linings and refractories from thermal processes; and
asbestos materials from all branches (asbestos processing, cement, brake pads etc.).
They are hazardous when containing asbestos, oil or heavy metals.
 New category to be reported as of 2010; wastes were formerly included in category ‘Mineral Waste’ consisting of EWC-Stat 12.1, 12.2,

15. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (9) – Mineral waste
Separate category for soil (12.6)
These wastes are soils and stones that originate mainly from construction activities, the excavation of contaminated sites and soil remediation.
They are hazardous when containing organic pollutants, heavy metals or oil.
 New category to be reported as of 2010:
Non-hazardous soils were formerly reported in category ‘Mineral Waste’ consisting of EWC-Stat 12.1, 12.2,
Hazardous soils were reported together with dredging spoils in category ‘Contaminated soils and polluted dredging spoils’

16. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (10) – Mineral waste
Separate category for dredging spoils (12.7)
These are wastes that mainly come from the construction and maintenance of water projects, dredging and subsurface work.
They are hazardous when containing heavy metals or organic pollutants.
 Hazardous dredging spoils are reported separately as of 2010; they were reported together with hazardous soils in category 12.6 ‘Contaminated soils and polluted dredging spoils’
 For non-hazardous dredging spoils only the EWC-Stat code has changed (formerly 11.3).

17. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (11) – Mineral waste
New category for “Mineral Waste from waste treatment and stabilized waste” ( )
This new category aims to improve the distinction between primary and secondary waste.
The category is a combination of the category “solidified, stabilized or vitrified waste” (EWC-Stat Category 13) and the newly introduced category “waste from waste treatment” (EWC-Stat category 12.8). Both categories consist of secondary waste and from the material aspect they are related to each other.
 New category to be reported as of 2010; wastes were formerly reported under category ‘Mineral Waste’ consisting of EWC-Stat 12.1, 12.2, or under EWC-Stat 13 ‘Solidified, stabilised or vitrified wastes’.

18. Changes in the EWC-Stat breakdown (12)
 The revised composition
of the EWC-Stat breakdown
is explained in detail in
chapter of the
Manual.

19. Changed allocation of List of Wastes codes to EWC Stat (1)
Reorgansiation of 99-codes
In order to make Annex III more consistent it was proposed to assign 53 of the codes also to the waste category ‘Other mixed and undifferentiated wastes’.
As of 2010 the category “Mixed and undifferentiated materials (10.2)” summarises all unspecified LoW-codes; the amount of category 10.2, non- hazardous, should be higher than before!
Section Chemical waste mixed for treatment
The codes formerly allocated to the section “Chemical wastes mixed for treatment” have been moved to others for two different reasons:
Reorganisation of the “Sorting residues” (10.3)
Establishment of a new category “Sludge and liquid wastes from waste treatment” (3.3)
As a result, section disappeared.

20. Changed allocation of List of Wastes codes to EWC Stat (2)
Reorganisation of the category
Metal waste (06)
Animal and vegetal waste (09)
Sorting residues (10.3)
Construction and demolition waste (12.1)
Soil (12.6)
Introduction of the category
Sludges and liquid waste from waste treatment (03.03)
Dredging spoils (12.7)
Waste from Waste treatment (12.8)

21. New item for „backfilling“ (1)
Backfilling means a recovery operation
where waste is used in excavated areas (such as underground mines, gravel pits) for the purpose of slope reclamation or safety or for engineering purposes in landscaping and
where the waste is substituting other non-waste materials which would have had to be used for the purpose.
This includes:
the use of waste for stowage of mines and quarries;
the use of waste for recultivation, land reclamation or landscaping;

22. New item for „backfilling“ (2)

23. New item for „backfilling“ (3)

24. Reporting on landfills (1)
 Objective: to harmonise the reporting obligations of WStatR and the „Questionnaire on the implementation of the landfill directive“ (2000/738/EC)
Changed: Operations D3 and D4 shifted from item 4 to item 5
Dropped: Number and capacity of disposal operations of item 5
New: Capacity and number of landfills for a) HW b) NHW c) IW
New: Number of landfills closed a) HW b) NHW c) IW
Item 4 (D1, D5, D12) - Landfilling
Item 5 (D2, D3, D4, D6, D7) – Other disposal

25. Reporting on landfills (2)

26. Reporting on landfills (3)

27. Reporting on landfills / Impact of WStatR Revision (4)
Restructuring of the waste categories
enhance possibillities for validation and analysis
breakdown of the „black box“ mineral waste landfilled into six different waste categories
improved realtionship between generation and treatment data
impact on the time series of the landfilling data for some waste categories:
Household and similar waste (10.1): waste from markets
Mixed and undifferentiated waste (10.2): inclusion of 99-codes
Sorting residues (10.3): depends on the waste management infrastructure
Chemical waste (01-03): no siginficant impact expected
Common sludges (11): separate reporting of dredging spoil
Animal and vegetal waste (09): a few codes excluded

28. Reporting on landfills / Impact of WStatR Revision (5)
Regrouping of disposal operations
D3 Deep injection: probably no impact
the operation is rarely applied
known applications is presumable not reported
D4 Surface impoundment: may lead to a significant shift of quantities from landfillling to other disposal operations
Specification of reporting on landfills: The distinction between landfills for hazardous, nonhazardous and inert waste will allow crosschecks of WStatR-data on the number and rest capacity of landfills with the corresponding data collected under the Landfill Directive.

29. Redesigned reporting on waste treatment

30. NACE Rev. 2
Manual on waste statistics, edition 2010: Annex III — Synopsis NACE Rev. 1.1 — NACE Rev. 2

31. Effects of changes on comparability over time
Break in time series
EWC Stat 3  EWC Stat 4
Changes in allocation of LoW-codes to EWC Stat
Alignment of EWC Stat breakdown in waste generation and treatment
Harmonisation of reporting on landfills
NACE Rev. 1.1  NACE Rev. 2

32. Special needs as regards the next QR (1)
Mining waste
New item „backfilling“
Percentage of the population served by a collection scheme for mixed household waste and similar waste
Major changes to be reported
Specific issues concering the data collection on r.y. 2010
Codes and labels used in the tables
Transmission of QR via eDAMIS as usual

33. Special needs as regards the next QR / Mining waste (2)
Revised template for the QR on Waste Statistics 2012:

34. Special needs as regards the next QR / Backfilling (3)
Revised template for the QR on Waste Statistics 2012:

35. Special needs as regards the next QR / Backfilling (4)
Revised template for the QR on Waste Statistics 2012:

36. Special needs as regards the next QR / Percentage of the population served (5)
Revised template
for the QR on Waste
Statistics 2012:
To be reported in
item 1.7 of table 8
of the QR

37. Special needs as regards the next QR / Major changes (6)
Revised template for the QR on Waste Statistics 2012 /
part 1, chapter 6:

38. Special needs as regards the next QR / Specific issues (7)
Revised template for the QR on Waste Statistics 2012 /
part 1, chapter 7:

39. Special needs as regards the next QR / Codes and labels used in the tables (8)
Various corrections and alignments have been made in codes and labels used in the tables of the quality report.
e.g.

40. Questions?

41. Contact & Information Dr. Brigitte Karigl +43-1-31304-5568
Umweltbundesamt
ESTP_Waste Statistics
Vienna ■ 24 to 25 April 2012