How to use this site
This website shows the yearly releases (emissions) of the most important pollutants in the Netherlands.
You can view these emissions, for example, on a map, graph or table. But you can also download all the details into your own database.
The Dutch Pollution Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) is an emission register with a very large amount of data. For a number of
years this included hundreds of components, more than a thousand emission sources and hundreds of individual facilities.
Emissions to air, water (direct and indirect via the sewage treatment plants) and soil are available per province, community,
water boards and grid cells of 5 x 5 square kilometres, yielding a total of tens of millions of emissions.
You can explore this information by clicking on one or more of the following links:
Pre-select graphs and maps
The selection "Direct to map" offers you general maps of the most important emissions, e.g.
emission to air per community.
This map shows the total emissions in the Netherlands for one compound and the last year.
You can select other compounds, years or source of the emission. Use the button [Refresh map]
to show the new selection. Click on an icon in the box to the left to select the function to use in the map:
to zoom in 
or out 
, move 
, print
or ask with 
for the emission details
N.B. The selection of sources and components is limited. However you can expand this selection with the Tab [Selections - general] and [Selection - sector/activity]
Make your graph or map
With Select pollutants, sources ... you can select the emissions
(to air or water) you want shown, along with the compounds and emission source. Use the following steps to make a selection:
- Go to the tab 'Selection - General' and choose one or more compounds, one ore more years and the compartment
- Go to the tab 'Selection - Sources' and select one ore more Sectors, Sub sectors, Sources or individual Facilities
- Go to the tab 'Show - Graphic', and scroll down to view the table and to copy your selection to Excel
- Go to the tab Show - Map and select the spatial level, year etc. and Press [Refresh map]
You can skip the tab Selection - Sources. In this case only the total of the Netherlands is shown.
Export to download all the details in your own database
Clicking on the tab ‘Export’ will allow you to export the total content of the database, given your current selection of compounds
and compartment. There are two tabs available: one for the national emissions per detailed source and individual facility
(via the tab ‘Export - Per source’) and one for a selected spatial level (via the tab ‘Export - Per location’).
Both exports can become very large, too large to be imported to a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel.
For this reason exports are in the form of CSV files (Comma Separated Values), which can be used by Excel and databases like Microsoft Access.
Some exports – which demand more time to generate on line are available under Exports in the Documentation directory