Waste accounts in a NAMEA framework

Roel Delahaye

Statistics Netherlands

ContentIntroduction

Objectives

Waste definition

Waste Statistic Regulation

Environmental accountingConceptual issues

Waste accounts

Data issues

Practical implications

Results

Future workFurther extensions

ECONOMY ENVIRONMENT

NAMEA (National accounting matrix including environmental accounts)

- Physical supply and use tables- Consistent to SEEA and SNA

Need for improved waste accounts:

- No recycling- No import and export- Limited NACE categories- Limited waste categories

Waste what is it

- Solid waste:Materials for which the generator has no further use for own purpose of production, transformation or consumption, and which he discards, or intends or is required to discard. (OECD/Eurostat joint questionnaire)

- Solid waste residuals: Solid waste that has a value of zero (or a negative value) to the generator.

- Solid waste products: Solid waste that has a positive value to the generator.

Waste what is it

- Waste statistics regulation (WStatR):

The objective of this European Regulation is to establish a framework for the production of Community statistics on the generation, recovery and disposal of waste (EC, 2002)

- Regular, comparable and up to date data.- Many waste categories are distinguished.- In 2006 first data on 2004 will be reported.

Environmental Accounting

Concepts :-Supply and use tables

emissions + export – absorption + import = dumped waste

- Boundary between economy and environment

- Resident principle

- Waste products versus residuals

Products or residuals?

Waste accounts

Data sources:- waste database- foreign trade statistics- import-export dangerous waste- energy statistics- statistics on recyclers- National accounts data-

Waste accounts

Data issue highlights:- Registrations versus accounts:

- resident principle,- including export but not import- final treatment versus first treatment.

- Allocating waste Eural codes

- Illegal waste transfers

Waste accounts

Practical implications :- Waste emissions- Waste absorption- Import – export waste- Balancing- Products versus residuals

Waste types (eural code)

hazardous (h) or non-hazardous (n-h)

Total domestic production Import Export

Contribution environmental theme

Recycling Incineration LandfillCompound waste (01) h 456.699 27.603 161.342 123.845 193.937 5.177

n-h 2.158 0 1.282 12 0 863Chemical preparation waste (02) h 70.467 1.501 25.035 17.338 28.618 977

n-h 18.871 1 10.510 2.938 0 5.424Other chemical waste (03) h 134.411 12.202 34.400 37.827 61.744 12.643

n-h 429.321 0 314.214 85.162 11.440 18.505Health care and biological wastes (05) h 7.043 1.519 0 8.562 0 0

n-h 43 0 0 43 0 0Metallic wastes (06) h 240 24 250 0 3 12

n-h 126.348 19.155 116.206 46 29.250 0Non-metallic waste (07) h 8.610 19.942 598 2.940 24.908 106

n-h 3.688.415 128 2.535.611 338.341 802.321 12.270Discarded equipment (08) h 329.030 1.425 248.462 4.655 40.274 37.063

n-h 91.211 27.376 93.502 9.628 5.880 9.577Animal and vegetable wastes (09) n-h 13.443.174 57.307 12.076.263 957.545 337.522 129.151Mixed ordinary waste (10) h 190.227 0 122.894 2.549 9.084 55.699

n-h 8.941.054 657 1.587.867 5.474.582 758.858 1.120.404Common sludge (11) n-h 527.353 5.616 129.581 222.732 121.364 59.292Mineral waste (12) h 435.637 295.350 270.750 50.894 91.243 318.101

n-h 31.160.709 705 28.687.893 90.185 1.463.491 919.845Total 60.061.022 470.511 46.416.663 7.429.824 3.979.936 2.705.109

Absorption

Emissions by waste category

Emissions by industrial branch

Waste accounts, 2003Hazardous

wasteNon-hazardous

waste

mln kg mln kgORIGIN OF WASTEHousholds 304 8.559

Agriculture and forestry 3 3.828 Mining and quarrying 27 192 Industry 592 14.670 Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco 2 8.943 Manufacture of textile and leather products 8 68 Manufacture of paper and paper products 5 530 Publishing and printing 7 280 Manufacture of petroleum products 50 94 Manufacture of chemical products 184 982 Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 5 86 Manufacture of basic metals 223 1.920 Manufacture of fabricated metal products 32 117 Manufacture of machinery n.e.c. 7 86 Manufacture of electrical equipment 14 108 Manufacture of transport equipment 9 74 Other manufacturing 46 1.382 Electricity, Gas and water supply 14 1.493 Construction 46 23.805 Trade, repair, hotels and restaurants 124 1.656 Transport, storage en communication 128 360 Financial and business services 44 564 Government 26 357 Health and other services 324 2.945

IMPORT 360 111

DESTINATION OF WASTEABSORPTION BY PRODUCERS 1 112 52 734

EXPORT 450 3 530

CONTRIBUTION TO WASTE THEME 430 2275

Emissions attributed to final demand categories

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Total

Agriculture etc.

Manufacture of foodproductsetc

Construction

Other industry

Transport

Financial and business services

Government, health etc.

Export

Government consumption

Household consumption

Investments and stocks

Decoupling GDP and emissions

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Dumped/discharged waste

Value added

Future work

- Time series- Link with expenditure data- Illegal waste transports- Waste products- Analyses