The questionnaire includes 3 sections:

• the first part requires background information relating to the scope of the survey (activity, numbers);

• the second part requires qualitative information on waste management and the importance of environmental concerns for the establishment. This provides qualitative insight into the figures required in the third part ;

• the third part requires tonnages according to the type of waste, as well as information on its collection and its processing. It is broken down into four sub-sections on non-hazardous slurry and effluent waste,  organic wastes, organic non-hazardous waste, mixed non-hazardous and unsorted waste, and non-hazardous sorted waste.

The most fields of broadcast are :

Sector :
- BZ -- Mining industries ;
- CA -- Manufacture of food products, of beverages and of tobacco products ;
- CB - Manufacture of textiles, clothing industry, leather and footwear industry  ;
- CC - Woodworking, paper industry and printing ;
- CE -- Chemical industry ;
- CF -- Pharmaceutical industry ;
- CG - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products and other non-metallic mineral products ;
- CH -  Metallurgy and manufacture of metal products, except machinery and equipment ;
- CI - Manufacturing of computer, electronic and optical products ;
- CJ - Manufacture of electrical equipment ;
- CK - Manufacture of machinery and equipment (not classified elsewhere) ;
- CL - Manufacture of transport equipment ;
- CM - Other manufacturing industries, repair and installation of machinery and equipment réparation ; coking and refining ;
- DZ - Production and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning.

Number of employees :
- 2 -- 10 to 19 employees;
- 3 - 20 to 49 employees;
- 4 - 50 to 99 employees;
- 5 - 100 to 249 employees;
- 6 - 250 to 499 employees;
- 7 - 500 to 999 employees;
- 8 - 1000 to 1999 employees;
- 9 - 2000 employees and more.

Establishments belong to the nomenclature of french activity (NAF rev.2 sections B, C, D.)

The most indicators broadcast are the quantity of gather wastes together :
- Total quantity of humid slurry :
- Total quantity of organic waste :
- Total quantity of mixed waste :
- Total quantity of glass waste :
- Total quantity of metal waste :
- Total quantity of plastic waste :
- Total quantity of paper and paperboard waste :
- Total quantity of cloth and leather waste :
- Total quantity of rubber waste :
- Total quantity of wood waste :  
- Total quantity of mineral waste :
- Total quantity of out of service equipment :
- Total quantity of canteen waste / company restaurant :
- Total quantity of waste except humid slurry.

The unit of interrogation is the establishment, identified by its siret number.

The scope of the survey corresponds to establishments:  
- French (metropolitan France + DROM);
- operators ;
- having at least 4 months of activity in 2016;
- belonging to divisions 05 to 35 of NAF (Rév.2)
- with at least 10 employees.

The survey covers the french establishments of 10 employees or more, with NAF code belonging to sections B, C, D and 4 month of activity in 2016.

Year 2016 for part III (production of waste)Date of the filling in the questionnaire for the other questions