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1 Market overview
1.1 Definition and presentation
Waste management encompasses all activities linked to the treatment of waste on a regional scale. This market study covers all operations, from waste collection to storage or disposal, including transport, sorting and recycling.
Worldwide, the waste management market is growing. It is driven by two distinct factors:
- On the one hand, growth in the world's population and rising average living standardsare leading to an increase in the amount of waste per capita. This is a quantitative trend that is taking place mainly in emerging countries.
- On the other hand, the problems of recycling and reusing waste are becoming more pressing, even though their environmental impact is well known and many countries have banned waste imports, such as China in 2020.
In Europe, Germany produces the most waste, ahead of France and the UK. In terms of total sales in the waste management market, waste collection and treatment/disposal activities are the most important, accounting for 38.3% and 33.3% of the European total respectively. In Spain, the waste management market was on the rise before the emergence of the covid-19 pandemic. The urban waste management business in particular was enjoying solid average annual growth of 6%, before dropping to 4.8% in 2020. Reduced travel and activity and the collapse of tourism have led to lower waste consumption. The years 2021 and especially 2022, however, saw a normalization of activity, with a return to growth.
1.2 The global market
Global production:
The World Bank's **** What a waste *. * report highlights the problems associated with waste management on a global scale. Ocean pollution, poor regions submerged in litter, many are the problems caused by poor waste management. This World Bank report is still the latest update of the World Bank's figures on ...
1.3 The domestic market
Between **** and ****, total sales of waste management activities in Spain grew significantly, from **.** to **.** million euros, an increase of **.**%. Within this growth, different trends can be observed according to the sub-segments of this activity. Waste collection grew by **.**%, from *.** to *.** million euros. However, waste treatment and disposal recorded a slight decline ...
2 Demand analysis
2.1 Waste production by type and sector
In **** in Spain, minerals accounted for the largest share of waste types, at **.**%, closely followed by mixed waste at **.**%. Animal and vegetable waste accounted for *.**%, while metal waste and paper/cardboard represented *.**% and *.**% respectively. Chemicals and equipment contributed *.**% and *.**% respectively, while glass and wood accounted for around *.**% and *.**% of the total. ...
2.2 Macro-economic data
An article in RETEMA explains that by ****, Spain had failed to meet its recycling target of **% of waste. It also only reduced the amount of municipal waste produced by *.*%, compared with its target of **%. For the coming years, Spain has set itself the following European recycling targets:
**% by **** **% by **** **% by ...
2.3 Request for waste treatment
Landfilled waste:
Between **** and ****, the percentages of waste sent to landfill in Spain underwent various evolutions in each category. For chemical waste, despite fluctuations from year to year, a general downward trend was observed, from **.*% in **** to **.*% in ****. Mixed waste showed a relatively stable trend, with a slight increase in **** to ...
2.4 Demand for recovered waste
Spain, participating in the European objective of achieving a **% share of recycled municipal waste by **** and only **% of waste sent to landfill by ****, is encouraging the introduction of recycling. While this target may not be reached by ****(***), since **** we have seen an acceleration in waste recovery in Spain. Indeed, between **** and ...
3 Market structure
3.1 Waste classification
Waste is defined at European level as "any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard", and therefore has legal status.
There are various ways of classifying waste:
Sorting according to waste origin:
Waste can also be classified according to its origin:
Household waste, according ...
3.2 Waste collection
TheINE defines several CNAE codes corresponding to the different economic activities present in Spain. Here, we will concentrate on the CNAE codes:
CNAE code ***: Activities related to waste collection. CNAE code ***: Waste treatment activities (***) CNAE code *** : Activities related to waste recovery (***).
Between **** and ****, sales of waste collection activities in Spain increased ...
3.3 Waste treatment, recovery and disposal
Between **** and ****, there are significant variations in sales in the waste treatment and disposal (***) sectors. For the waste treatment and disposal sector, sales have fallen from *.** billion euros in **** to *.** billion euros in ****, representinga decrease of *.**% over the period studied. By contrast, in the waste recovery sector, sales rose from *.** billion ...
4 Offer analysis
4.1 Offer typology
The table below shows the services offered for waste management companies:
4.2 Increased spending by households, industry and public authorities
the average cost to Spanish households of managing their waste has risen steadily in recent years. Between **** and ****, this cost rose from **.* euros per household to **.* euros, an increase of *%.
Evolution of average waste management costs for Spanish households Spain, ****-****, euros/household/month Source: ****
For industrial companies, there has also ...
4.3 The Valorisation offer
Waste recovery is a process defined by Directive ****/**/EC on waste, which consists of :
Using waste to fulfil a specific function, replacing other materials that would otherwise have been used. Preparing waste so that it can fulfill a specific function, whether in a facility or in the economy in general.
The ...
5 Regulations
5.1 Regulations
The law of */****, de * de abril defines the general provisions for waste treatment in Spain.
Waste classification:
Waste is classified according to a harmonized European list, regulated by Commission Decision ****/***/EC. This list is divided into ** chapters which classify waste according to its origin or nature. Each waste is identified by ...
6 Positioning the players
6.1 Positioning
The table below shows the companies with the highest sales by waste management activity in Spain.
- FCC MEDIO AMBIENTE SAU
- URBASER SOCIEDAD ANONIMA UNIPERSONAL
- PREZERO ESPAÑA SA.
- LIMPIEZA DE MALAGA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA MUNICIPAL.
- DESGUACES LA CABAÑA SL
- ECOACTIVA DE MEDIO AMBIENTE SA
- SOCIEDADE GALEGA DO MEDIOAMBIENTE SA
- TIRME SA
List of charts presented in this market study
- Trends in waste quantities
- Share of waste generated
- Share of waste production and population
- Per capita waste production
- Estimated trend in waste production
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