NOK 25.9 billion in turnover

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The turnover for local kind of activity units within water, sewerage and waste management and remediation activities rose by 6.5 per cent from 2015 to 2016.

In the local kind of activity units within waste activities and materials recovery, NOK 10.6 billion of the turnover came from materials recovery, NOK 10.2 billion from waste collection and the remaining NOK 2.9 billion from waste treatment and disposal, according to Structural business statistics for water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities.

Figure 1. Turnover by industry division. Local kind-of-activity units

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
36 Water supply 419 416 419 406 422 471 490 514
37 Sewerage 960 1005 1191 1229 1178 1327 1379 1521
38.1 Waste collection 7570 8460 9060 8593 8620 8771 8206 10240
38.2 Waste treatment and disposal 2184 2503 2253 2416 2671 2133 2771 2884
38.3 Materials recovery 6006 7929 8939 9344 9230 9928 11324 10571
39 Remediation, other waste managem. 247 413 398 378 204 139 183 216

Decline in value added

Total value added at factor prices amounted to NOK 7.5 billion in 2016, up 3.8 per cent from the year before. Waste collection and materials recovery was still the largest industry, with a value added of NOK 6.4 billion.

Growth in number of employees

A total of 9 238 persons were employed within water, sewerage and waste in 2016. Waste collection employed 4 166, while remediation and other waste management employed only 66 persons.

Figure 2. Employment by industry division. Local kind-of-activity units

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
36 Water supply 327 332 332 328 355 391 408 416
37 Sewerage 634 675 749 751 710 771 796 881
38.1 Waste collection 3880 4165 4138 4018 4011 4101 4001 4166
38.2 Waste treatment and disposal 763 826 697 763 776 653 853 857
38.3 Materials recovery 1887 2030 2140 2124 2190 2477 2788 2852
39 Remediation, other waste managem. 69 100 102 111 98 100 90 66

Change in industrial classification for one large enterprise

One large enterprise, with several local kind of activity units, changed industrial classification into this section and contributed with large values.

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