Municipal waste; quantities
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Table explanation
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 and 2020 data cannot be easily compared for the province of Zeeland. In 2024 the ZRD changed the calculations for assigning the generic category of ‘sortable waste’ to other waste flows. Because of this the figures for 2023 and 2024 cannot be easily compared for the province of Zeeland.
Data available from: 1993
Status of the figures:
The 2022, 2023 and 2024 data are revised provisional; all other data are final.
Changes as of 11 December 2025:
Final data for 2021 have been added. New revised provisional data for 2022, 2023 and 2024 have been added.
When will new figures be published?
Provisional data for 2025 will be published in July 2026.
Description topics
- Municipal waste (1000 tonnes)
- Household waste
- Household waste. A small part comes from the private sector, offices, shops, etc.
- Total
- Organic, kitchen and garden waste
- Paper and cardboard
- Including paper and cardboard collected by clubs, schools and charities.
- Frying fat and oils
- Waste electrical and electronic equipm.
- Expanded polystyrene
- Expanded polystyrene (EPS) of Styrofoam.
- Gas cylinders and fire extinguishers
- Kerbside collection
- Household waste collected from kerbside.
- Organic, kitchen and garden waste
- Paper and cardboard
- Including paper and cardboard collected by clubs, schools and charities.
- Frying fat and oils
- Waste electrical and electronic equipm.
- Expanded polystyrene
- Expanded polystyrene (EPS) of Styrofoam.
- Gas cylinders and fire extinguishers
- Bring/drop-off collection
- Collection via recycling centres or recycling banks at bring sites.
- Organic, kitchen and garden waste
- Paper and cardboard
- Including paper and cardboard collected by clubs, schools and charities.
- Frying fat and oils
- Waste electrical and electronic equipm.
- Expanded polystyrene
- Expanded polystyrene (EPS) of Styrofoam.
- Gas cylinders and fire extinguishers
- 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).