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 Sectorial waste produced (t)
Characteristic Description
Name Sectorial waste produced (t) by Economic activity (CAE Rev. 3) and Type of waste (CER-stat); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Environmental survey - sectoral waste
First available period 2019
Last available period 2023
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Economic activity (CAE Rev. 3)
  • Type of waste (CER-stat)
Concepts
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
  • SECTORIAL WASTE:  Waste produced within economic activities with production processes that generate waste different from waste generated by families in their homes.
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
  • WASTE:  Any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard, according Waste Framewok Directive
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Tonne (t)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 28/03/2025


information presented in 14/6/2025