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Statistics on
Waste treatment in waste treatment plants
The statistics include waste treated at Norwegian waste treatment facilities, i.e. waste incineration plants, landfills, composting- and biogas treatment facilities.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Waste treatment on waste-treatment plants. 1000 tonnes.Download table as ...Waste treatment on waste-treatment plants. 1000 tonnes.
2024 Treatment, total 7 113 Biological treatment 746 Incinerated 1 434 Landfilled and used as filling compound and cover material 4 933 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Biologically treated waste. 1 000 tonnes.Download table as ...Biologically treated waste. 1 000 tonnes.
2024 Amount of waste Sludge Treatment, total Biogas production Composting Treatment, total Biogas production Composting Treated in total 746 528 218 169 105 65 Food waste from private households 194 155 39 .. .. .. Food waste from institutional households/industry 72 66 6 .. .. .. Waste from agriculture, edible 5 : : .. .. .. Vegetable waste from food industry 43 : : .. .. .. Animal biproducts 43 : : .. .. .. Park- and gardening waste 103 .. 103 .. .. .. Animal fertilizer 114 89 26 .. .. .. Fish waste and other marine 108 105 2 .. .. .. Fat 25 23 2 .. .. .. Sewage sludge .. .. .. 169 105 65 Other organic 7 2 4 .. .. .. Other waste/sludge from industry (except wood processing) 33 16 17 .. .. .. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Waste landfilled. 1000 tonnes.Download table as ...Waste landfilled. 1000 tonnes.
2024 Total waste to landfill and used as filling compound and cover material 4 933 Slightly polluted soil landfilled 2 511 Slightly polluted soil landfilled 2 460 Slightly polluted soil used as filling compound and cover material 50 Landfilled waste, not including slightly polluted soil 2 306 Landfilled hazardous waste 885 Landfilled ordinary waste 1 421 Waste, not including slightly polluted soil, used as filling compound and cover material 116 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Waste incineration. 1000 tonnes.Download table as ...Waste incineration. 1000 tonnes.
2024 Waste incinerated in total 1 434 Energy recovery 1 142 Waste incineration 292 Combustion waste 214 Combustion waste for recycling 95 Combustion waste landfilled 119 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 18 March 2026.
Biodegradables : Readily biologically degradable waste, mainly food waste and waste from production of food and feeding stuff.
Biogas production: Biogas refers to a mixture of different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste or food waste.
Composting is a sort of aerobic biological treatment, i.e. decomposition of the waste by means of micro-organisms and in the presence of air.
Energy recovery is exploitation of the energy which is released during waste incineration.
Hazardous waste : Waste which requires special treatment according to Regulations Concerning Hazardous Waste, owing to its toxic or flammable Properties.
Landfilling is final disposal in an officially approved landfill.
Recycling (Material recovery) : processing and use of wastes in production and consumption processes
Reuse : Use of materials or products more than once, e.g. refilling of bottles
Waste handling is usually defined as everything which is done with the waste, from discarding to final disposal. The term treatment/disposal denotes processes which lead to physical or chemical transformation of the waste (material recovery/recycling, composting or incineration) or final disposal (landfilling, dumping, export and reuse).
Data on Waste incineration and Waste landfilled are reported acorcing to the Norwagian Classification of Waste (NS 9431)
Name: Waste treatment in waste treatment plants
Topic: Nature and the environment
Division for Energy, Environmental and Transport Statistics
National
Every third year. From the reference year 2004 inclusive, every year. No data for the years 2012-2016, and then annualy from 2017 and forward.
The data are used in the Waste accounts for Norway. The Waste account is again the basis for the reporting on the Waste Statistics regulation (Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002).
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
Municipal waste statistics have been published by Statistics Norway from 1992 to 1999 inclusive. That statistics covered waste that was handled by or on behalf of the municipalities, i.e. all household waste and parts of the industrial waste. During the 1990-ies, ever more industrial waste was handled outside the municipal waste treatment system. Municipal waste statistics hence could not provide a comprehensive picture of the waste treatment and disposal in Norway. The present waste treatment and disposal statistics is extended compared to the municipal waste statistics in that all waste treatment plants now are included in the survey.
The statistics were not published for the years 2012-2016. For 2017, a new scheme for biological treatment was created in cooperation with the Norwegian Environment Agency. All data for the statistics are now collected from the Norwegian Environment Agency.
Important users are: The Norwegian Environment Agency, The Ministry of Environment, regional environmental authorities, waste handling companies and environmental NGOs.
The statistics are applied directly in the Norwegian Waste Accounts and as part of the factual basis for the government's report on environment protection and pollution abatement status to the Storting. Regional waste treatment planning and international reporting are two other important applications.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
The figures are used in the waste accounts for Norway, but are not directly comparable. The waste accounts for Norway include all waste treated in Norway and Norwegian Waste treated abroad.
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
Pollution Control Act Section 49. Individual data are used for statistics production according to The Statistics Act Section 3-2
The statistic is a part of the national program for official statistic, under Nature, area, climate and environment, subcategory Waste.
Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics
The figures include waste treated at Norwegian waste treatment facilities, i.e. waste incineration plants, landfills, composting- and biogass treatment facilities. Recycled waste is not included in the figures.
Questionnaires
Full survey/census
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data.
Electronic questionnaires
Automatic controls are incorporated in the electronic questionnaires. All questionnaires are scanned for obvious errors on arrival. Questionnaires are checked in Statistics Norway for completeness and internal consistency. At macro-level, results are compared with other waste statistics, especially the waste accounts, and checked for consistency.
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Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
To ensure confidentiality, the suppression method is used in these statistics.
The figures are comparable, both over time and between counties.
The waste weighing and registration procedures vary among the different treatment plants. Because of this, parts of the questions were answered to a little degree. Often there are no measured data. In these cases, the treatment plant operator sometimes estimates the reported data, or does not answer the question at all. Missing data are imputed.
The registry of waste treatment facilities may be undercovered, but probably of minor significanse.
The share recycled "incineration residues sorted out for material recycling", is unknown.
All of the data is reported to the Norwegian Environment Agency and is used by Statistics Norway to produce statistics.
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