Municipal waste; quantities
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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)
- Household waste
- Household waste. A small part comes from the private sector, offices, shops, etc.
- Total
- Other waste categories
- Kerbside collection
- Household waste collected from kerbside.
- Other waste categories
- Bring/drop-off collection
- Collection via recycling centres or recycling banks at bring sites.
- Other waste categories
- Cleansing services and other waste
- Cleansing waste is collected by (or on behalf of) the municipal cleansing and public garden departments (excluding construction and demolition waste).
Other waste refers to waste collected from the private sector, like offices, shops, etc.- Total cleansing services and other waste
- Litter
- Manual or mechanised refuse collection by street sweepers on streets, beaches, etc. (including public litter bins).
- Waste from sewerages, pumping-stations
- Sludge from the sewer system, drains and pumping-stations.
- Floating waste
- Floating waste from harbours, canals, ditches, ponds, etc.
Including dragged waste, excluding dredged mud and sludge.
- Organic waste
- Vegetable waste from public gardens, nature reserves, etc.
- Mixed waste from festivities
- Mixed waste from festivities, fairs, concerts, etc.
- Mixed market waste
- Other cleansing services waste
- Office, shop and services waste
- Construction and demolition waste
- Construction and demolition waste from the private sector.
- Hazardous waste
- Small quantities of hazardous industrial waste.
- Municipal waste (kg per capita)
- Household waste
- Household waste. A small part comes from the private sector, offices,
shops, etc.- Other waste categories
- Cleansing services and other waste
- Cleansing waste is collected by (or on behalf of) the municipal cleansing and public garden departments (excluding construction and demolition waste).
Other waste refers to waste collected from the private sector, like offices, shops, etc.- Total cleansing services and other waste
- Litter
- Manual or mechanised refuse collection by street sweepers on streets, beaches, etc. (including public litter bins).
- Waste from sewerages, pumping-stations
- Sludge from the sewer system, drains and pumping-stations
- Floating waste
- Floating waste from harbours, canals, ditches, ponds, etc.
Including dragged waste, excluding dredged mud and sludge.
- Organic waste
- Vegetable waste from public gardens, nature reserves, etc.
- Mixed waste from festivities
- Mixed waste from festivities, fairs, concerts, etc.
- Mixed market waste
- Other cleansing services waste
- Office, shop and services waste
- Construction and demolition waste
- Construction and demolition waste from the private sector.
- Hazardous waste
- Small quantities of hazardous industrial waste.
- Processing
- Processing refers to the first method applied. The final method may differ from the first method.
- Cleansing services and other waste
- Cleansing waste is collected by (or on behalf of) the municipal cleansing and public garden departments (excluding construction and demolition waste).
Other waste refers to waste collected from the private sector, like offices, shops, etc.- 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