Municipal waste; quantities
| Regional divisions | Periods | Municipal waste (1000 tonnes) Total municipal waste (1 000 tonnes) | Municipal waste (kg per capita) Total municipal waste (kg per capita) | Processing Total municipal waste Recycling and reuse (%) | Processing Total municipal waste Composting (%) | Processing Total municipal waste Separation afterwards (%) | Processing Total municipal waste Incineration (%) | Processing Total municipal waste Landfilling (%) | Municipalities, inhabitants and response Number of Dutch municipalities (number) | Municipalities, inhabitants and response Responding municipalities (%) | Municipalities, inhabitants and response Total number of inhabitants (x 1 000) | Municipalities, inhabitants and response Inhabitants in responding municipalities (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nederland | 2022** | 9,064 | 516 | 33 | 27 | 19 | 21 | 1 | 344 | 93 | 17,570 | 93 |
| Noord-Nederland (LD) | 2022** | 1,095 | 629 | 30 | 34 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 40 | 95 | 1,742 | 96 |
| Oost-Nederland (LD) | 2022** | 1,814 | 488 | 35 | 34 | 11 | 19 | 1 | 82 | 95 | 3,717 | 96 |
| West-Nederland (LD) | 2022** | 4,185 | 498 | 30 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 135 | 93 | 8,400 | 94 |
| Zuid-Nederland (LD) | 2022** | 1,970 | 531 | 36 | 33 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 87 | 90 | 3,711 | 87 |
| Groningen (PV) | 2022** | 361 | 611 | 31 | 30 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 80 | 590 | 88 |
| Fryslân (PV) | 2022** | 418 | 639 | 31 | 31 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 100 | 654 | 100 |
| Drenthe (PV) | 2022** | 316 | 635 | 29 | 42 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 100 | 498 | 100 |
| Overijssel (PV) | 2022** | 563 | 480 | 34 | 35 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 25 | 100 | 1,172 | 100 |
| Flevoland (PV) | 2022** | 226 | 521 | 36 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 100 | 435 | 100 |
| Gelderland (PV) | 2022** | 1,025 | 486 | 36 | 36 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 51 | 92 | 2,110 | 93 |
| Utrecht (PV) | 2022** | 671 | 490 | 36 | 23 | 27 | 12 | 1 | 26 | 96 | 1,370 | 95 |
| Noord-Holland (PV) | 2022** | 1,468 | 508 | 30 | 19 | 29 | 22 | 1 | 44 | 91 | 2,889 | 92 |
| Zuid-Holland (PV) | 2022** | 1,775 | 473 | 27 | 17 | 25 | 30 | 1 | 52 | 90 | 3,754 | 95 |
| Zeeland (PV) | 2022** | 271 | 701 | 39 | 27 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 13 | 100 | 387 | 100 |
| Noord-Brabant (PV) | 2022** | 1,403 | 541 | 36 | 34 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 56 | 88 | 2,593 | 84 |
| Limburg (PV) | 2022** | 567 | 507 | 38 | 31 | 21 | 9 | 1 | 31 | 94 | 1,118 | 92 |
| Fewer than 5 000 inhabitants | 2022** | 14 | 1,081 | 22 | 23 | 43 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 100 | 13 | 100 |
| 5 000 to 9 999 inhabitants | 2022** | 29 | 508 | 31 | 35 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 100 | 57 | 100 |
| 10 000 to 19 999 inhabitants | 2022** | 503 | 540 | 36 | 35 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 60 | 95 | 931 | 95 |
| 20 000 to 49 999 inhabitants | 2022** | 3,286 | 553 | 35 | 34 | 12 | 17 | 1 | 182 | 93 | 5,945 | 94 |
| 50 000 to 99 999 inhabitants | 2022** | 2,158 | 541 | 35 | 29 | 14 | 21 | 1 | 58 | 86 | 3,988 | 88 |
| 100 000 inhabitants or more | 2022** | 3,074 | 463 | 28 | 17 | 30 | 25 | 1 | 32 | 94 | 6,637 | 96 |
| Not urbanised | 2022** | 767 | 631 | 34 | 37 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 49 | 94 | 1,215 | 92 |
| Hardly urbanised | 2022** | 2,071 | 554 | 35 | 38 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 124 | 94 | 3,739 | 93 |
| Moderately urbanised | 2022** | 1,522 | 539 | 36 | 32 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 77 | 88 | 2,824 | 85 |
| Strongly urbanised | 2022** | 2,673 | 511 | 35 | 25 | 17 | 23 | 1 | 71 | 93 | 5,235 | 92 |
| Extremely urbanised | 2022** | 2,030 | 446 | 24 | 12 | 37 | 26 | 1 | 23 | 96 | 4,557 | 99 |
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||||||
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Amount of municipal waste collected by or on behalf of municipalities in the Netherlands. Amount of waste by type of waste, province, municipal size class and degree of urbanisation. Statistical information on waste treatment.
Municipalities that collectively manage waste collection centres (milieustraat), assign the waste flows to participating municipalities based on the proportion of inhabitants of the total. The Zeeuwse Reinigingsdienst (ZRD) until 2021 assigned the waste flows based on the proportion of weighed kilograms per waste collection centre in relation to the total for the municipalities in the province of Zeeland, but has now switched to assigning them based on the proportion of inhabitants as well. This cause a break with regards to earlier years of the times series, and 2021 en 2020 data cannot be easily compared for the province of Zeeland.
Data available from: 1993
Status of the figures:
The 2020, 2021 and 2022 data are revised provisional; all other data are final.
Changes as of 15 December 2023:
Final data for 2019 have been added. New revised provisional data for 2020, 2021 and 2022 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
Provisional data for 2023 will be published in July 2024.
Description topics
- Municipal waste (1000 tonnes)
- Total municipal waste
- Municipal waste (kg per capita)
- Total municipal waste
- Processing
- Processing refers to the first method applied. The final method may differ from the first method.
- Total municipal waste
- Recycling and reuse
- Composting
- Including digestion of organic waste.
- Separation afterwards
- This processing method involves prior removal of constituents fit for reuse/recycling.
- Incineration
- Landfilling
- Municipalities, inhabitants and response
- Number of Dutch municipalities
- Total number of municipalities on 1 January.
- Responding municipalities
- Total number of inhabitants
- Number of inhabitants on 1 januari.
- Inhabitants in responding municipalities