Norway’s two largest hazardous-waste materials as a share of 1.724M tonnes; percent, 2024.
Norway generated 1.724 million tonnes across eight hazardous-waste material categories in 2024. Waste containing heavy metals or polluted matter and waste containing oil were the two largest categories. Together they accounted for 66.2% of the total. Adding corrosive waste raised the top-three share to 78.5%.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heavy metals & polluted matter | 650K | 2024 |
| 2 | Waste containing oil | 492K | 2024 |
| 3 | Corrosive waste | 212K | 2024 |
| 4 | Processing water | 157K | 2024 |
| 5 | Other organic hazardous waste | 133K | 2024 |
| 6 | Waste containing solvents | 42K | 2024 |
| 7 | Unclassified hazardous waste | 21K | 2024 |
| 8 | Other inorganic hazardous waste | 17K | 2024 |
Source 1: Hazardous waste, by material, contents and year
Publisher: Statistics Norway
Dataset/table: Statistics Norway Statbank
Units: percent of hazardous waste generated
Date checked: 2026-07-15
Evidence: Supplies the official values used to calculate combined share of the two largest hazardous-waste material categories for 2024.
The total covers the eight published material categories used in this comparison.
The two largest material tonnages are added and divided by the sum across all eight categories.
All material values use the same 2024 source, category level and thousand-tonne unit.
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