Data and code for: European Textile Waste Statistics Record Managed Waste, Not Generation

Supporting data and code for the Letter "European Textile Waste Statistics Record Managed Waste, Not Generation" (Md Hasan Al Mamun, Muhammad Shahjalal, Yaming Jiang; submitted to Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2026). Eurostat publishes the only statutory country-level textile waste series, W076, as waste generation. The study audits what it contains: it records waste entering managed channels, 27–30% of EEA-estimated generation in the EU27; households supplied 14.8% of reported mass in 2004 and 44.0% in 2022, textile manufacturing 64.2% and 24.2%, and waste-management activities 2.2% and 11.1%. The same 1.02 Mt of recycling in 2022 is 73.9% of treated mass but 12–19% of generation under ±30% uncertainty in the mixed-waste component, and 8.1% of the 12.6 Mt estimate in Directive (EU) 2025/1892. Six countries report treating more textile waste than they generate; net trade does not explain it. Contents: (1) source data exactly as retrieved: Eurostat env_wasgen (W076 by NACE activity in tonnes, and kg per capita), env_wastrt and demo_pjan; EEA Circularity Metrics Lab indicators; trade in HS 6309 and 6310 from Eurostat Comext and UN Comtrade. (2) Derived tables behind every table and figure, including key_results.csv, which lists every number quoted in the text. (3) Python code that regenerates all tables and figures from the archived files (python run_all.py; no internet connection needed). (4) Figures as PDF and PNG. Version 1.1.0 adds the full activity breakdown, a sensitivity analysis of the generation estimate, a trade test, stability diagnostics on unrounded data, and the corresponding figures.