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During 2021, the sections: Agriculture, forestry and fishing, Mining and quarrying, Manufacturing, Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities, Construction and Other service activities of the Republic of Serbia generated waste amounting to 69.6 million tons.

1. Generated waste in the Republic of Serbia by sections

	2020	2021
	t	t	Non-hazardous waste, %	Hazardous waste, %
Generated waste – total	56592461	69585036	79.6	20.4
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	89033	126065	99.4	0.6
Mining and quarrying	45710305	59505634	76.3	23.7
Manufacturing	1099711	1129093	98.0	2.0
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	7896311	7256387	100.0	0.0
Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities	490354	465430	97.3	2.7
Construction	729118	590442	99.6	0.4
Other service activities	577629	511984	95.6	4.4

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Generated waste quantities, observed by sections and relative to the previous year, noted in 2021 the following trends: Agriculture, forestry and fishing – increase of 41.6%, Mining and quarrying – increase of 30.2%, Manufacturing – increase of 2.7%, Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply – decrease of 8.1%, Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities – decrease of 5.1%, Construction – decrease of 19.0% and Other service activities – decrease of 11.4%.

2. Generated waste in the Republic of Serbia by aggregated waste list, 2021.

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EWC-Stat¹⁾	Name	Waste character²⁾	CA sections
EWC-Stat¹⁾	Name	Waste character²⁾	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Mining and quarrying	Manufacturing	Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	Water supply, sewerage, waste manage- ment and remediation activities	Construction	Other service activities
	Total		126065	59505634	1129093	7256387	465430	590442	511984
	Non-hazardous waste		125351	45387352	1106179	7255076	452927	588319	489699
	Hazardous waste		715	14118282	22915	1311	12503	2123	22287
1.1	Spent solvents	H	-	-	90	-	14	-	1
1.2	Acid, alkaline or saline waste	N	-	-	135	-	-	-	-
		H	-	1	2287	-	3511	-	22
1.3	Used oils	H	76	333	4000	366	38	131	1237
1.4,2,3.1	Chemical preparation waste	N	4	28	2243	1166	382	7	278
		H	418	319	5720	427	1260	745	822
3.2	Industrial effluent sludges³⁾	N	-	11	5954	3	69	10	165
		H	1	-	693	4	291	-	35
3.3	Sludges and liquid wastes from waste treatment	N	-	-	76	-	74	-	23
		H	-	-	116	-	8	-	-
5	Health care and biological waste	N	-	-	1	-	-	-	466
		H	189	-	2	-	-	-	3335
6.1	Metal wastes, ferrous	N	517	7551	118862	14728	133191	8698	263855
6.2	Metal wastes, non-ferrous	N	28	749	19050	477	2680	1032	1147
6.3	Metal wastes, mixed ferrous and non-ferrous	N	130	195	16265	237	2786	441	2622
7.1	Glass waste	N	10	-	6317	12	3844	586	6503
		H	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
7.2	Paper and cardboard waste	N	418	52	90074	28	1727	2526	52098
7.3	Rubber waste	N	148	1435	8005	374	120	689	3120
7.4	Plastic waste	N	166	53	21619	173	10000	104	8490
7.5	Wood waste	N	49	9	61487	25252	549	2530	8941
		H	-	-	52	8	-	21	2
7.6	Textile waste	N	-	-	7796	1	630	1	60
7.7	Wastes containing PCB⁴⁾	H	-	104	-	11	1	2	1
8	Discarded equipment (excluding W081 and W0841)	N	-	10	544	1005	2224	9	140
		H	7	92	1409	158	2137	28	3102
8.1	Discarded vehicles	N	1	442	17	451	70	-	3979
		H	-	-	65	-	42	9	4616
8.41	Batteries and accumulators waste	N	-	-	3	-	-	10	11
		H	19	25	263	82	577	80	1889
9.1	Animal and mixed food waste	N	2535	-	22055	-	1674	20	6891
9.2	Vegetal wastes	N	23838	-	28121	1	1158	180	27655
9.3	Animal faeces, urine and manure	N	96396	-	8120	-	-	-	3768
10.1	Household and similar waste	N	603	130	18429	223	54030	3074	76954
10.2	Mixed and undifferentiated materials	N	503	3358	55722	-	3953	773	4815
		H	2	58	528	111	72	-	272
10.3	Sorting residues	N	-	-	2238	-	30397	-	2194
		H	-	8	428	19	590	-	-
11	Common sludges: liquid substances	N	1	-	834	-	159052	80	18
12.1	Mineral waste from construction and demolition	N	-	61	2937	19909	1709	178840	892
		H	2	-	21	27	-	1087	6805
12.2,12.3,12.5	Other mineral wastes (W122+W123+W125)	N	-	45371119	13910	197	2585	233	1508
		H	-	14117341	115	20	-	20	38
12.4	Combustion waste	N	5	2150	485660	7190233	723	10600	3344
		H	-	-	5985	53	3960	-	15
12.6	Contaminated soils and polluted dredging spoils	N	-	-	77	605	36302	371207	1969
		H	-	-	1142	23	-	-	97
12.7	Dredging spoils	N	-	-	-	-	-	6666	-
12.8.13	Mineral wastes from waste treatment and stabilised wastes	N	-	-	109628	-	3000	-	7795

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1) European Waste Classification for Statistics (EWC-Stat), by Commission Regulation (EU) No 849/2010
2) H – hazardous waste / N – non-hazardous waste
3) Sludges (EWC-Stat types 03.2, 03.3, 11 and 12.7) dry.
4) PCB – Polychlorinated biphenyls

	2020	2021
	t	t	Hazardous waste, %	Non-hazardous waste, %
Total	56252475	64482432	22.0	78.0
Reused	2492032	2606154	2.8	97.2
Energy recovery	109774	103585	4.8	95.2
Recycling	1788483	2086325	3.3	96.7
Backfilling	593775	416244	-	100.0
Disposed	53760443	61876278	22.8	77.2
Incineracion	-	-	-	-
Landfilling	53631027	61718235	22.9	77.1
Other disposal	129416	158043	-	100.0

Waste generation and treatment, 2021

During 2021 in the Republic of Serbia, the sections of economic acitivities generated 69.9 million tons of waste. Treated waste amounted to 64.5 million tons, whereof 16.7% more waste was recycled relative to the previous year.

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