How Many Landfills are There?
This question is one which has often been addressed to “The Landfill Site”. Due to the kind assistance of Idan, a visitor to this site, who found this table for us for landfills in Europe, we can at least provide a table of data for Europe from a report written in 2005 for the EU.
Table 1: Number and type of landfills in (EU) Member States
|
Country
|
Year
|
Hazardous
|
Non-Hazardous
|
Inert
|
|
Austria
|
1998
|
0
|
61
|
400*a
|
|
2001
|
0
|
53
|
752
|
|
Belgium-Flemish
|
2001
|
6
|
11
|
11
|
|
2004
|
4
|
7
|
5
|
|
Belgium-Walloon
|
2002
|
10*b
|
31
|
16
|
|
2004
|
10*b
|
10
|
16
|
|
Denmark
|
1998
|
1
|
120
|
37
|
|
2004
|
1
|
120
|
37
|
|
Finland
|
1998
|
7
|
351
|
8
|
|
2003
|
15
|
162
|
71
|
|
France
|
1992
|
14
|
1200
|
No data
|
|
2005
|
13
|
20
|
No data
|
|
Germany
|
2000
|
22
|
1,838
|
No data
|
|
2002
|
23
|
1,775
|
No data
|
|
Greece
|
2000
|
0
|
14
|
0
|
|
2005
|
0
|
39
|
0
|
|
Ireland
|
2001
|
0
|
48
|
2
|
|
2005
|
0
|
30
|
2
|
|
Italy
|
2001
|
10
|
765
|
626
|
|
2002
|
8
|
642
|
591
|
|
Luxembourg
|
2001
|
0
|
2
|
10
|
|
2004
|
0
|
2
|
10
|
|
Netherlands
|
1999
|
30*c
|
|
2004
|
30*c
|
|
Portugal
|
2002
|
1
|
57
|
1
|
|
2005
|
0
|
45
|
No data
|
|
Spain
|
No data
|
No data
|
No data
|
No data
|
|
No data
|
No data
|
No data
|
No data
|
|
Sweden
|
1998
|
500*c
|
|
2002
|
44
|
225*d
|
47
|
|
UK
|
2001
|
200
|
2300*e
|
|
2004
|
12
|
938*e
|
|
*a – Inert landfills before the implementation of the Landfill Directive does not include landfills for excavated soil.
*b - Hazardous landfills includes industrial landfills (no data was available on whether industrial landfills are hazardous)
*c - Before the implementation of the Landfill Directive the different types of landfills have not been differentiated and all of the landfills have therefore
been classes as non-hazardous.
*d - Non hazardous landfills after the implementation of the Landfill Directive include 39 of an undifferentiated type of landfill.
*e - Non Hazardous landfills include inert landfills.
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Attribution:
The table above is included in the results (page 22) of a study into the implementation of Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste undertaken on behalf of the European Commission (EC), Report on Implementation of the Landfill Directive. By Natalie Collier and Ed Perry.
REF ENV.A.2/ETU/2004/0016
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