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    • Inflow
      • Direct Material Input (DMI) of the Flemish economy
      • Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) of the Flemish economy
      • Water consumption
    • R-strategies
      • Share of industrial waste getting a second life
      • Household waste recycling
      • Production of secondary raw materials
      • Reuse indicator
      • Repair indicator
      • Circular Material Use Rate (CMUR)
    • Outflow
      • Production of household waste
      • Production of residual household waste
      • Production of primary industrial waste
      • Production of primary industrial residual waste
      • Incinerated, co-incinerated and landfill waste
      • Littering and fly-tipping cleaned up
      • Territorial emissions
  • Effects
    • Materials
      • Raw Material Input (RMI) of the Flemish economy
      • Material footprint of Flemish consumption (RMC)
    • Environment
      • Use of space
      • Carbon footprint of Flemish consumption
      • Global concentration of emissions
      • Soil contamination and remediation
    • Socio-economic
      • Material productivity
      • Employment in the circular economy
      • Turnover in the circular economy
      • Turnover of approved reuse centres
      • Repair sector
  • Housing and construction
    • Market
      • Number of households
      • Number of companies
      • Living area of residential buildings
    • Footprint
      • Material footprint of housing
      • Emissions from buildings and homes
    • Condition of resources
      • Built-up area
      • Raw material reserves
      • Open space
    • Undesirable effects
      • Number of homeless people
      • Number of people affected by particulate matter
      • Number of people facing water scarcity
    • Desired changes
      • Average age of buildings
      • Living area use efficiency
      • Energy efficiency of buildings
      • Number of social housing units
      • Number of renovations
      • Recycling rate of building materials
  • Food
    • Use of input
      • Water consumption in the agricultural sector
      • Use of nitrogen in the agricultural sector
      • Use of phosphorus in the agricultural sector
      • Production and use of animal fertiliser
      • Energy consumption in the agricultural sector
      • Use of agricultural land
      • Use of raw materials for animal feed
      • Soil quality
    • Loss of input
      • Greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector
      • Acidifying emissions in the agricultural sector
      • Nitrate concentrations in surface water
      • Phosphate concentrations in surface water
    • Footprint
      • Material footprint food
    • Consumption pattern
      • Protein consumption
      • Household food waste
      • BMI evolution
    • Waste
      • Food residues and food loss
      • Valorisation of residual food streams
      • Processing of organic residual streams
      • Share of food waste in residual household waste
      • Collection and processing of organic residual waste
  • Consumer goods
    • (Re)use and recovery
      • Reuse of consumer goods via reuse centres
      • Reuse of textiles via reuse centres
      • Reuse of furniture via reuse centres
      • Reuse of EEE via reuse centres
    • Market
      • Household EEE put on the market
      • EEE in households
      • Use status of EEE in households
    • Footprint
      • Material footprint of consumer goods
    • Waste
      • Packaging and products in residual household waste
      • Composite products in bulky waste
      • Estimate of out-of-home waste
      • Processed household EEE waste
      • Processing of end-of-life textiles
      • OOM/POM ratio for household EEE
  • Mobility
    • Market
      • Modal split in passenger kilometres
      • Number of passenger cars
      • Car use efficiency
      • Car sharing
      • Number of buses
      • Bus use intensity
      • Number of freight vehicles
    • Footprint
      • Material footprint of mobility
    • Lifecycle
      • New cars on the market
      • Mass of new cars on the market
      • Emissions and Ecoscores of new cars on the market
      • Emissions of road transport
      • Mileage of cars at end of life
      • Age of cars at end of life
      • Valorisation of end-of-life cars via official demolition
      • Valorisation of old tyres

Socio-economic

This group of indicators shows the socio-economic effects of the circular economy: jobs, business turnover, business models…

Indicators

Material productivity
0.43 - 1.47 €/kg

Material productivity

Material productivity is the ratio of gross domestic product to material consumption and expresses the efficiency of this consumption...
Employment in the circular economy
45,000 employees

Employment in the circular economy

This indicator shows the evolution of employment in circular industries in Flanders. It covers jobs in sectors focusing on...
Turnover in the circular economy
€ 22 billion

Turnover in the circular economy

This indicator measures the turnover of a number of circular industries in Flanders.
Turnover of approved reuse centres
€ 74.8 million

Turnover of approved reuse centres

This indicator shows the size of the sector of approved reuse centres in Flanders based on turnover figures.
Repair sector
+15% turnover

Repair sector

This indicator combines a number of data sources that provide more insight into the repair sector.

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Materials

Materials

This group of indicators shows the materials footprint of the (circular) economy.
Environment

Environment

This group of indicators shows the ecological effects of the (circular) economy: on soil, climate, …
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