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• Location Name: Groot-Ammers Recycling Center
• Street + no: Transport road 3
• Postal Code: 2964 LP
• City: Great-Ammers

Opening hours*

* In case of extreme crowds, we may close the queue half an hour before closing time.

About Ecopark Groot-Ammers

Ecopark Groot-Ammers is located on the Gelkenes industrial estate in Groot-Ammers. The site includes a recycling center, a workshop, a second-hand building materials depot, an educational space, and a recycling center. 

Together with our local partners Korevaar Group en The Companion We strive to reuse your discarded items as effectively as possible. This way, we avoid wasting resources and depleting the planet. And we work together towards a clean environment and a waste-free future.

Going to the recycling center? Don't forget your environmental pass 

You are welcome at the Groot-Ammers recycling center with your Waardlanden environmental pass. Without a pass, you cannot enter the recycling center.

More information about the environmental pass

One of our staff members will greet you at the entrance. We'll review your cargo together and advise you on the best route through the site. We'll also tell you which items and materials can be reused or repaired, and which can be disposed of at the recycling center.

What you can bring away from here

• Garbage
  Are your broken items beyond repair or use? Or do you have items that don't belong in the container or don't fit? Then you can take them to the recycling center as often as you like using your recycling pass.
• Small chemical waste (SCW)
  Small chemical waste (SCW) is waste containing substances that are hazardous to health and the environment. This includes chemicals that are toxic, flammable, or otherwise harmful.

What you can't bring away from here

• Soil and sand
• Small amounts of potting and garden soil can be safely disposed of with the organic waste.
• For larger quantities of sand, soil and (garden) soil, there are special companies that collect, inspect and purify these materials for reuse.

Reuse

At Ecopark, we give as many goods and materials a second life as possible. There's a dedicated area at the recycling center where you can neatly store your second-life items. In the workshop, people in need of support work under supervision to repair or repurpose as many items as possible, such as furniture. Of course, you can take your repaired items home with you for a small fee. We sell donated items at regional thrift stores or in our webshop. The Companion.

Sustainable building materials

At 2nd Chance Building Materials You can buy sustainable building materials that you want to give a second life. Check out the 2nd Chance Building Materials webshop for the current selection of circular building materials. You can also drop off your reusable building materials.

Recycling center

KoreNet KoreNet converts goods that cannot be reused into reusable raw materials. For example, KoreNet separates your delivered wood into reusable wood and wood that goes to the chipboard industry. KoreNet also uses a sorting facility to separate mixed raw materials, such as wood, plastic, and metal for recycling.

Education

The education area overlooks the Ecopark. Here you can learn more about the circular economy and how you can contribute to a better environment. The education area can be visited by appointment and is suitable for groups, such as school classes. Guided tours of the Ecopark are also available.

More information about the options or make an appointment

You can reserve and borrow a trailer at Ecopark Groot-Ammers.

Find out more about the options and conditions for borrowing a trailer

You can separate disposable diapers into special diaper waste bags and return them for free to one of Waardlanden's recycling centers. Or even better: choose wisely and save more with washable diapers. Better for the environment and your wallet.

Benefits of washable diapers

With cloth diapers, your baby will be potty trained faster and, thanks to the natural materials, will suffer much less from diaper rash. These modern diapers are very easy to use. Moreover, you avoid residual waste and save trips to the recycling center. Cloth diapers are therefore better for the environment and your wallet. More information can be found at milieucentraal.nl/mazzelkontjes.

Return disposable diapers for free to the recycling center

You collect the used disposable diapers in a special waste bag for baby diapers, which you can collect at the recycling centers and in a number of other places In the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden, and Vijfheerenlanden. Take the full bag to the recycling center, where you can dispose of it for free in a special container. Only used disposable diapers are allowed in the semi-transparent diaper bags. Do not include (latex) gloves, washcloths, underlays, ointment jars, tubes, or other materials. These are very harmful to the recycling process.

Baby diaper waste bag locations

You can collect special waste bags for baby diapers at these locations. Check the opening hours of each location in advance.

Medical waste

In the Waardlanden municipalities, incontinence supplies are considered medical waste. People with a medical condition who cannot reduce their residual waste due to medical waste may be eligible for compensation. For more information, they can contact their municipality.

Why should you dispose of disposable diapers separately?

If you throw disposable diapers in with your residual waste, they end up in the incinerator. Disposable diapers that you take separately to the recycling center are partially processed into raw materials for making new products, such as plastic car parts. This processing method has a lower environmental impact than incineration in a waste-to-energy plant.

Together, we're moving toward a clean environment and a waste-free future. Find more videos and helpful tips for reducing waste and separating it even more effectively at waardlanden.nl/hulpentips.

Questions

Do you have a question about the collection of baby diapers?

> Find the answers to frequently asked questions about the collection of baby diapers and medical waste here

Do you want to get rid of your old bike, but it's too good for scrap? With the "A Second Life for Used Bikes" project, your discarded bike gets a second life.

Take your bike to the recycling center

You can take your old bicycle to the recycling center of thrift store to take. 

Makeover

SitY Academy, the Monnikenhof Residents' Association, De Gezel, and Opnieuw & Co Leerdam repair discarded bicycles so they are usable again and meet legal requirements. They then ensure the bicycles reach the right people: people on a tight budget who can't afford a new bike.

Work for people in vulnerable positions

All workshops employ people with vulnerable positions in the labor market who work as bicycle mechanics. They work in a safe environment, developing into skilled craftsmen under the guidance of a mentor.

Successful collaboration

The cycling project is a collaboration between SitY Academy, Residents' organization Monnikenhof, The Companion, municipality of Vijfheerenlanden, Again & Co Leerdam and Waardlanden. Since its launch in July 2021, the partners have made a major effort to make the "A second life for used bicycles" project a success.

You can take windows, mirrors, an old glass shower wall and other flat glass to one of our recycling centers to take.

There's a special container for flat glass at the recycling center where you can drop it off. We'll make sure it's recycled.

The name flat glass is the counterpart of hollow glass, which is packaging glassYou can put packaging glass (empty bottles and jars) in a glass container in your neighborhood or at the shopping center. Recycling centers also have glass containers. Do not put packaging glass in the flat glass container.

Old Christmas trees are not waste. They are recycled into compost and green gas.they are shredded into bedding in stables.

Waardlanden provides the Christmas tree collection for the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden.

Styrofoam from packaging, also called polystyrene or EPS, can be handed in separately at one of our recycling centersWe ensure that the materials are recycled. For example, large pieces of polystyrene that protect electrical equipment from impact during transport.

What does not belong in Styrofoam?

• Styrofoam never belongs in the pmd (plastic packaging, metal, cans and beverage cartons).
• Contaminated polystyrene, such as meat trays, is part of the residual waste.
• Small pieces of polystyrene may be included residual waste.
• Styrofoam used as insulation material is often treated with a flame retardant. Therefore, this is part of the bulky household waste.

Do you have an old mattress or topper you want to get rid of? No worries! Bring it in for free. to the recycling center for recycling. 

Free return to the recycling center for recycling

There's a special container at the recycling center where you can leave your old mattress or topper. Your mattress or topper contains valuable raw materials that can be recycled. By taking your old mattress or topper to the recycling center, you help protect the environment. 
Does your old mattress or topper not fit in your car? Then you can take it to the recycling center for free. borrow a trailer.

Have your mattress or topper collected at home

Can't bring it yourself? No problem! You can also make an appointment online to have it collected and pay directly with iDeal. Bulky waste collected at home is residual waste and is incinerated. This is unfortunate, because bulky household waste contains many valuable materials that can be reused. With a fee for this collection service, municipalities encourage you to sort your bulky waste and take it to the recycling center separately.

You can take plasterboard to one of our recycling centersThere's a special container there for plaster. We'll make sure it's recycled.

For gypsum recycling, it is important that we keep the delivered gypsum as pure and clean as possible, so that it is not contaminated with substances that disrupt the recycling process.

Plaster that you can offer for recycling:

• All plaster blocks: heavy, solid blocks in white, green, blue or pink
• Fermacell panels
• Plasterboard (supply separately)

This may not contain gypsum waste:

• Wood fiber boards
• Pressed straw boards
• Cement-bonded boards
• Insulation material
• Wood
• Aerated concrete/cellular concrete/Ytong (light, porous blocks, the inside is light gray)
• Metal
• Asbestos
• All types of plastic
• Plasterboard and plaster blocks with tiles

You cannot put these types of plaster waste in the special container for plaster.

You can hand in gas bottles, fire extinguishers and other pressure containers free of charge with the small chemical waste (kca) at the recycling centers in Gorinchem, Groot-Ammers, Hardinxveld-Giessendam and Vianen. 

Always bring your environmental pass. You'll need it to access the recycling centers. 

Please note: pressure vessels are not electrical appliances (e-waste).

You can purchase roofing felt and other roofing materials from one of our recycling centers Bring it. There's a special container here where you can put it. We'll make sure the material is recycled.

Roofing material that you hand in at the recycling center can be used in the production of new roofing. Examples of roofing material include roofing felt, bituminous roofing, roof gravel, and mastic. You cannot hand in packaged tar as roofing felt; this is small toxic waste (kca) and submit it as such.

Sealant cartridges must not be placed in the container for roofing felt either; they belong with the residual waste. Empty sealant cartridges may go with the residual waste, full or filled sealant cartridges with the small toxic waste (kca).