Separate textile waste collection is a requirement under the new EPR system in the Netherlands. Municipalities play an important role in organizing collection, designing local policies, and piloting and implementing local-level solutions for circular textiles.
To fulfil this role effectively, municipalities should take a data-driven approach. This starts with an estimate of how much textile is in circulation, which can be used as a basis to measure how well the separate collection infastructure is working. A data-driven approach allows municipalities, textile collectors, and sorters to work together using a common language to measure progress. It provides a single version of truth for collaborating on where and how textiles should be collected.
These data include estimates of textile quantities put on market at the neighborhood level within Dutch municipalities, including estimated amounts of textiles and geographic boundaries to visualize the data. TEXroad uses these data, as well as waste generation figures and data supplied by the market, in our Data Hub app. There it serves as the basis for our users to evaluate textile management infrastructure, targets, and progress toward those targets.
Raw data sources:
- Bijlage 3 — Monitoringrapportage Beleidsprogramma Circulair Textiel 2023 (reference BK2950, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, October 2025). Country-level textile POM totals per category. URL: https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/2bbf3f86-74b2-4f05-8aeb-17d4668ae3e0/file
- CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten. Annual population at country (NL00), municipality, district, and neighbourhood level. Reference date: 31 December Y (CBS publishes the same census under a "1 January Y+1" label in the Y+1 edition; the two labels refer to the same snapshot). Datasets 84583NED through 85984NED used for POM data years 2018 to 2023. URL: https://opendata.cbs.nl/
- PDOK Wijk- en Buurtkaart. Annual administrative boundaries served via WFS. Service base URL: https://service.pdok.nl/cbs/wijkenbuurten/[year]/wfs/[v1_0 or v2_0] (2022 onward use v1_0; 2020 and 2021 use v2_0). Landing page: https://www.pdok.nl/introductie/-/article/cbs-wijken-en-buurten
A full description of the methodology and documentation on the data sets are available as .md files.
