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Waste in Norway by material, source and material and treatment and material. 1 000 tonnes.¹
	Material, total. Except contaminated soil	Paper, cardboard and pasteboard	Metals	Plastic	Glas	Wood waste	Textiles	Wetorganic waste	Concrete and bricks	Sludges	Other	Hazardous	Contaminated soil²
¹Mixed waste is not considered as a category of its own in The Waste Account for Norway, but is instead, based upon results form sorting analysis, divided upon the pure waste fractions. This cause the pure waste fractions to be somewhat higher, and the mixed waste lower in the Waste Account than in the source statistics.
²Break in the time series: Industrial landfills are missing before 2010.
³Includes scrapped cars and motor bikes, and paper burnt at home.
1995	7 100	1 037	593	377	187	1 334	115	1 079	525	248	1 034	573	806
2000	8 176	1 118	758	414	199	1 300	120	1 256	651	264	1 484	611	410
2005	9 383	1 198	920	413	226	1 584	121	1 421	743	253	1 536	970	358
2009	9 204	1 136	942	443	217	1 629	115	1 408	759	214	1 325	1 017	973
2010	9 454	1 107	1 066	439	209	1 660	117	1 493	684	204	1 313	1 162	1 698
2011	9 890	1 085	1 096	478	214	1 815	113	1 452	710	227	1 441	1 259	2 213

	2011
By source and material
Total	9 890	1 085	1 096	478	214	1 815	113	1 452	710	227	1 441	1 259	2 213
Households³	2 293	484	222	157	82	407	48	553	4	0	305	32	0
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	151	6	13	23	0	1	6	98	0	0	1	2	0
Mining and quarrying	438	3	64	2	0	4	0	5	0	0	8	353	0
Manufacturing industries	2 674	106	132	39	19	748	6	365	38	113	512	597	0
Electricity and water supply	45	0	9	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	33	0
Construction	1 608	65	86	42	71	266	11	77	664	0	297	29	0
Service industries	1 439	398	126	138	41	200	35	307	5	2	106	83	0
Sewerage and waste management	444	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	113	211	114	0
Other or unspecified	796	23	438	76	0	188	8	45	0	0	0	17	2 213

By treatment/disposal and material
Total	9 890	1 085	1 096	478	214	1 815	113	1 452	710	227	1 441	1 259	2 213
Sent to material recovery	3 830	636	1 020	89	100	374	1	313	591	107	381	219	0
Biological treatment	401	0	0	0	0	133	0	267	0	0	1	0	0
Energy recovery	2 856	323	0	231	0	1 184	75	675	0	64	161	143	0
Filling compound and cover material	205	1	0	0	1	5	0	2	11	6	178	0	0
Incineration without energy recovery	634	69	71	52	77	95	19	166	0	0	17	67	0
Landfill	820	27	5	25	5	23	6	29	80	11	221	388	2 213
Other disposal	441	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	441	0
Other or unspecified	704	30	0	81	30	0	13	0	28	39	483	0	0