Generation of textile waste in 2020, in kg per capita

Amounts of textile waste collected separately from economic activities and households were obtained from Eurostat’s ENV_WASGEN dataset. The amounts of textile waste in mixed municipal waste are estimations based on waste composition analyses (WCAs) and calculated based on the mixed municipal waste from households and similar sources. As there is no harmonised method for WCA across Europe, these numbers should be interpreted cautiously. There are no data available on textiles in mixed municipal waste for Türkiye. Note that due to a lack of capacity, Ireland and Norway were not able to verify these data; therefore, for these countries, data are calculated based on the residual waste composition provided in the EEA’s early warning assessment (EEA, 2022). Italy indicated that its figure for waste from economic activities is an overestimation as it includes non-textile waste like scraps from leather manufacturing or secondary textile waste.

Adapted from ETC CE, 2023 based on Eurostat, 2023b and information provided by each country to the EEA.