This page shows at a glance how our organisation is structured and what the roles and responsibilities of the different parts are. This helps residents understand who performs what role and how everything works together within the organisation.

Board duties and powers

• The board may adopt rules on how the organisation works, how tasks are distributed and who has what powers. The board may delegate some tasks to the director.
• The board may delegate its powers to the chief executive, if it fits within the rules.
• The board appoints, suspends and dismisses the director and controller.
• The board may perform official legal acts on behalf of the organisation, such as signing contracts. These are called private law acts.
• The board may go to court on behalf of the organisation, object to decisions or take other legal action. The board may also arrange things to prepare for such steps.
• The board manages and oversees everything that happens within the organisation.
• The board may authorise one or more members to perform certain tasks or powers. This is only allowed if the rules allow it and the task is suitable to be transferred. The rules in the General Administrative Law Act apply here.
• The board adopts the (draft) budget and the (draft) financial statements.

The powers of the chairman and secretary

• The chairman leads the board meetings. If the chairman is absent, the deputy chairman takes over this task.
• The chairman and secretary sign all official documents of the board. The board may decide that the director of the organisation may sign some documents.
• The chairman represents the organisation, for example in legal matters or other official appointments. He may appoint someone else to do so on his behalf. If the chairman himself is involved in a legal case, or if he represents the municipality involved in the case, the board chooses another board member to represent the organisation.

Duties and powers of director

• The director is in day-to-day charge of the organisation
• The director is responsible for hiring, suspending, disciplining and dismissing employees with employment contracts under civil law. The director can also appoint, suspend and dismiss officials other than the controller.
• Secretary to the board.
• Director within the meaning of the Works Councils Act. Here, the director is responsible for communication with the works council and employee representation within the organisation.
• Steering organisational development
• Making the organisation visible and its role clear in the environment in which it works, such as within government and other organisations.
• Partnering with community partners and networks to achieve goals together.

Duties and powers controller

• Report to director and board
• Ensuring the organisation complies with laws and regulations.

Tasks and powers of the staff office

• Drafting HRM policy (including strategic human resources policy and regulations)
• Supporting the director as director for the works council
• Monitoring developments in the field of collective labour agreements and occupational health and safety
• Advising and supporting managers on management issues; such as recruitment & selection
• Ensure communication with employees on HRM matters, such as job information, policies and other important announcements.
• Ensure that processes around anniversaries, salary increases and appointments are properly implemented and done on time.
• Management of personnel files

Duties and powers Public Affairs

• Answering questions from residents.
• Taking complaints, notifications and reservations.
• Issue of materials to residents.
• Communication with residents through the website, app, social media and door-to-door newspapers.
• Ensure the sharing of information about the organisation's policies with the media.
• Coordinate with municipalities on how we communicate on all topics related to waste and raw materials and cicularity.
• Teaching or providing information on circular economy
• Explain to residents how to prevent waste and separate waste and raw materials properly.
• Enforce rules for disposing of waste and raw materials.

Duties and powers Planning

• Make proposals to improve waste collection, based on information from other departments on routes and collection days.
• Keeping abreast of developments in raw materials and equipment.
• Ensure good cooperation with HVC in day-to-day operations.
• Maintaining records of investments, such as buildings and vehicles, and processing claims.
• Quality, working conditions and environmental coordination (KAM)
• Leading the implementation of projects
• Draw up implementation plans for litter, ice control and weed control, among others.
• Contact with environmental services.
• Customer contact and contract management corporate waste
• Taking care of the BV's P&C cycle, a process in which plans are made, performance is measured and adjusted where necessary, to achieve the organisation's goals.

Duties and powers Information management

• Ensure financial reporting and accountability within the P&C cycle.
• Managing commodity records.
• Management of timesheets.
• Reviewing data and turning it into actionable information that helps make decisions.
• Support budget managers.
• Relationship management with the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)
• Ensuring the management of all insurance of the organisation.
• Debtor and creditor administration.
• Preparation of annual programmes for municipalities.
• Steering the P&C cycle
• Legal support

Duties and powers Implementation

Collection team

• Waste and resource collection.
• Issue new means of collection, such as containers.

Public Space Management Team

• Removal of side placements in Gorinchem.
• Weed removal from hard surfaces such as roads and paths in Hardinxveld-Giessendam.
• Emptying bins in Gorinchem and outlying areas.
• Sweeping hard surfaces, such as roads and paths.

Waste recycling and equipment team

• Management of environmental centres.
• Issuing rented trailers.
• Daily contact partners environmental centres.
• Maintaining vehicles and tools.
• Taking care of repairs.
• Maintenance of collection tools in the neighbourhoods, such as collection containers.
• Terrain management.
• Taking care of everything needed in the office, such as furniture, computers, cleaning and food.

Every Christmas tree without a wooden cross, pot, nails or decoration will earn residents of the Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden municipalities money again this year. You can hand in your Christmas tree at collection points in the neighbourhood, at the environmental centres or at the Kringloopplein. In this way, we work together on a tidy neighbourhood and give trees a second life. 

The Christmas tree collection is now a firm tradition. Children in particular look forward to it every year. With a bicycle, wagon or trailer, they go into the neighbourhood to collect as many trees as possible. 

Call for children

Go outside with your brothers, sisters and friends. Collect trees during the Christmas holidays and see who in the neighbourhood still has a tree. Make arrangements with neighbours to collect them during or after the holidays. This way, everyone knows when the tree will be removed and the neighbourhood stays tidy. It is fun, you are outdoors and you earn some money.
It also helps keep the streets clean and tidy. Delivered trees are shredded. Then processors turn it into soil improvers and ground cover. In this way, Christmas trees turn into a valuable raw material. So participating is not only good for your wallet, but also for the environment. 

Christmas tree collection locations

The digital map below shows all Christmas tree collection locations. Click on the red Christmas trees, zoom in and quickly see where, when and at what time you can bring Christmas trees to your neighbourhood for a fee of 50 cents. 

Make arrangements together 

Make arrangements with neighbours, relatives or children in the neighbourhood. Agree who will hand in the tree and when. This will prevent trees from being left outside too early or too late and keep the neighbourhood tidy.  

Collection times per municipality

Neighbourhood collection takes place on different days for each municipality:

• Gorinchem: Saturday 10 January 
• Hardinxveld-Giessendam: Saturday 3 and 10 January 
• Molenlanden: Saturday 3 and 10 January 
• Vijfheerenlanden: Wednesday 7 January 

Below you can see for each municipality where, when and at what time you can collect Christmas trees. Click on the plus sign (+) for the collection times in your municipality.

During the holidays, our waste disposal centres, Kringloop Square Nieuw-Lekkerland and our office will be closed.

In some municipalities, the collection days for waste and raw materials change. Put your container outside before 7.30am on collection day and remove it as soon as possible after emptying.

Below you can see by municipality when the collection days are by commodity. Click on the plus sign (+) for all collection days in your municipality.

If you move house, you must notify the municipality where you will be living. If you continue to live in a municipality or move to a municipality where we collect household waste, we will automatically be informed of your move. So you do not have to arrange this yourself.

Environment pass

Every household in the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden has an environmental pass. With this pass, you can open the collection containers for residual waste and VGF waste in your municipality, if the pass has been activated for this purpose. The environmental pass also gives you access to all our waste collection points. Go to waardlanden.nl/milieupas.

Are you moving to a newly built house?

The municipality will pass on the new addresses to us. You can then apply to us for an environmental pass and the (raw material) containers belonging to your home. For this you can contact with our customer contact centre. We will be happy to help you.

Are you moving to an existing property?

The previous occupant left the environmental pass in the house. If you do not find an environmental pass, contact us immediately. We will block the old pass linked to your address. You will receive a new pass within 5 working days. You can use contact with our customer contact centre. We will be happy to help you.

A clean neighbourhood starts with you!

Put your rubbish in the collection containers in your neighbourhood. This keeps the neighbourhood tidy and clean and prevents litter and vermin. It is not allowed to put rubbish and belongings next to the collection container. You pay high clean-up costs for this offence. Check waardlanden.nl/clean-neighbourhood.

Waste calendar

If you live in a low-rise building with (commodity) containers, you naturally want to know on which days you can have them emptied. You can easily check this in the online waste calendar or in the Waardlanden app.

Waardlanden app

If you move to a new address in one of the Waardlanden municipalities you can of course continue to use the Waardlanden app. You will then only need to change your address details under 'Settings' in the app. For more information about the handy Waardlanden app, go to waardlanden.nl/app.

Your old home

Of course, you want the old home to be left tidy for the new occupants. Here are a few tips to take care of this:

• Have the containers emptied again before you move. Check the Waardlanden app or online waste calendar to see when this is possible.
• Do not use the containers after they have been emptied for the last time. Clean them and put the separated waste in a separate rubbish bag. You can dispose of these later in the collection containers nearby or at your new address.
• Do you still have items for the environmental street? You can use your environmental pass until the removal date you have given to the municipality.
• Leave the environmental pass from your old home in the property.

Discover more tips To cleverly deal with items and materials you don't want to move on waarldanden.nl/relocation-tips.

Questions

Do you have a question about moving? Find answers to frequently asked questions about moving here.

Everyone has a right to information from the government. As a government organisation, we have to provide that information ourselves, or when someone asks for it. This is regulated by the Open Government Act (Woo).

Much government information is already public. You can view this information online on the Overheid.nl website and on our website. For information that is not online, you can request disclosure. This is called an information request. If this information is not just for your own use, this is called a Woo request.

Difference information request and Woo request

The difference between an information request and a Woo request is the purpose of the request. If you want to request information for your own use, it is best to file an information request. If you want to request public information, it is best to file a Woo request.

In an information request, you ask:

• Data or documents for your own use, which you need, for example, for an objection or complaint. This may also include a personal file.
• General information (intelligence) as in the case of a press enquiry or citizen letter.
• Different procedures apply for an objection or complaint. Click here for more information.

In a Woo request, you ask:

• Information on an administrative subject. That means a subject for which the municipal council, the municipal executive or municipal officials are responsible.
• Information, documents and data in our possession.
• Information we have not previously made public.

How does it work?

You can submit an information request or Woo request to Waardlanden about: the collection of household waste and raw materials, street cleaning, enforcement of the waste regulation and information about waste. Waardlanden also takes care of weed control in the municipality of Hardinxveld-Giessendam, slipperiness control, maintenance of the vehicle fleet and emptying rubbish bins for the municipality of Gorinchem. You can also submit an information request or Woo request about this.

Your request must state:

• That it is an information request or Woo request
• About which (administrative) topic you want to receive information and over which period of time
• How you want to receive it (e.g. by e-mail or post)
• Your contact details including your phone number for additional enquiries

Please address your request to:

Email
info@waardlanden.nl

PostWaardlanden
Attn: Information contact person
PO Box 555
4200 AN Gorinchem

How long will it take?

Once we have received your Woo request, you will receive a confirmation. If we still have questions, the handler will contact you. We will make a decision within four weeks of receiving your Woo request. If necessary, this period can be extended by another two weeks. You will be notified of this.
If we decide positively on your Woo request, you will be sent the information. Sometimes there is a reason not to send all or part of the requested information. For example, if it contains personal data or another ground for refusal applies.

If other persons are also expected to be involved in the Woo request, different deadlines apply. This is because we must then ask the other persons involved for their views. You will be notified of this.

Good to know

It does not cost money to file an information request or Woo request. However, fees may be charged, for example, to make copies and send information by post.

Questions?

For questions about the Open Government Act, please contact our information contact. Send an e-mail to info@waardlanden.nl or call 0183 68 11 11.

You can come to these workshops for furniture repair and/or disassembly from household goods to raw materials.

Monnikenhof residents' association

Langeweg 6b

4133 AX Vianen

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Tailor-made look

Railway 42

3373 AP Hardinxveld-Giessendam

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De Gezel Gorinchem

Arkelse Onderweg 4
4206 AH Gorinchem
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De Gezel Groot-Ammers (Ecopark)

Transport Road 3

2964 LP Groot-Ammers

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Woodworking workshop ASVZ

Parmentierstraat 40, 4143 HA Leerdam

Ironclad for good work

Neerpolderseweg 19

3381 JP Giessenburg

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