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Around 9 percent of all materials entering the Dutch economy are recycled.

CBS has calculated annually produced e-waste quantities for all European countries

Circular economy: what we want to know and can measure

The Material Flow Monitor 2016 provides insight into the physical material flows (in kilos) to, from and within the Dutch economy. The dataset also includes information on waste, recycling, emissions...

Exploration of potential sources to collect data about the use of secondary materials at the request of the Dutch environmental assessment agency.

The proposed monitoring system to track progress in the planned transition towards a circular economy.

This explorative study addresses the impact of critical materials on the Dutch economy. It is based on 41 critical materials identified by a specialist EU working group, plus 3 critical materials...

In 2008, 18.8 million tons of industrial waste were produced. Nearly 17 million tons (90 percent) were reused or incinerated to generate energy. The remaining 2 million tons were dumped in landfills...

a statistical overview of the circular economy’s effects on the environment and raw material consumption

Reuse of recycled materials contributes to the government target of realising a fully circular economy by 2050. The construction sector generated the most waste in 2016 but also used half of all...

The use of raw materials in the Dutch economy was reduced by 14 percent in the period 2004-2014.

The Netherlands consumed over 20 percent fewer materials than in 2000. Material consumption per capita is lower than average in the EU and the material footprint per capita is lower.

In the publication Green growth in the Netherlands 2015 ,Statistics Netherlands analyses and describes the state of the “green” economy in the Netherlands, based on 36 indicators, divided...