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Brief description:
Generation of industrial waste (generated in own production and received from other organizations) by economic activity;
Generation of solid municipal waste;
Moreover, the indicators are presented per unit of GDP and per capita.
Industrial waste and solid municipal waste generation per unit of GDP in terms of PPP in the Republic of Belarus
(kg/1000 international $, GDP in terms of PPP in prices of 2021)
Methodology:
Industrial waste includes waste generated in the process of economic activity of businesses and individual entrepreneurs (manufacture of goods, production (generation) of energy, performing of works (provision of services));
Industrial waste does not include:
- radioactive waste, waste contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the Chernobyl disaster below the level established by regulatory legal acts, including technical regulatory legal acts, for radioactive waste;
- waste of explosives and materials;
- genetically engineered organisms classified as waste;
- products of animal origin classified as waste;
- scrap and waste containing precious metals and (or) precious stones;
- scrap and waste of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, with the exception of those classified as waste of hazard classes 1–3;
- consumption waste;
Industrial waste is classified:
by hazard category in accordance with the National classification of the Republic of Belarus 021-2019 “Classifier of waste occurring in Belarus”;
by economic activity:
- for 2010-2015: the National classification of the Republic of Belarus 005-2006 “Types of Economic Activity” (compliant with NACE Rev.1.1) was used;
- since 2016: the National classification of the Republic of Belarus 005-2011 “Types of Economic Activity” (compliant with NACE Rev.2.0) is used;
Municipal waste comprises all consumption waste and industrial waste included in the List of industrial waste referred to municipal waste; the List is established by the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Belarus.
Data on generation of solid municipal waste are estimated as sum of data solid municipal waste recovered and landfilled.
Data source:
Industrial waste: state statistical report 1-отходы (Минприроды) «Отчет об обращении с отходами производства» (Report on industrial waste management); the data producer is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus;
Municipal waste: administrative data; the data producer is the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Belarus.
Relevance of the indicator:
The indicator allows for measuring the anthropogenic impact on the environment; the analyses of trends in waste generated per unit of GDP allows for measuring material-intensive production patterns.
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