Monitoring and enforcement

Our supervisors check the rubbish bags and look at the rubbish to find out the owner. If there are witnesses to placing the rubbish, our supervisors will talk to them.

Our supervisors focus on the outposts that are reported or that they notice during the day on weekdays. To proceed to urgent administrative enforcement, no flagrante delicto is required. Nor is that feasible given the huge size of our area.

Our supervisors open rubbish bags and check them for address details to find the owner of the outpost. This can be done through postal items, envelopes and medicine boxes, for example. If this is unsuccessful or if the waste is bulky, such as sofas or mattresses, we hope to find witnesses. In that case, the supervisors conduct neighbourhood investigations.

Cameras infringe on the privacy of our residents. Even of residents who do not break the rules and dispose of their waste properly. There are rules for the use of cameras. It is a municipality's decision to proceed with camera surveillance. For now, we are first putting our efforts on talks with residents and street surveillance.

We apply urgent administrative enforcement. We charge for the cost of removing the waste and thus eliminating the unsafe and unhealthy situation. This may feel like a fine, but it is not. The advantage of urgent enforcement is that the environment is left clean, as pollution is cleaned up immediately.

Monitoring mainly focuses on adding waste to the collection containers or dumping waste in public areas.

We charge for the removal of the waste and thus removing the unsafe and unhealthy situation. The cost of this is set at €206.50 per violation. 

You can submit a notice of objection within six weeks of receiving the letter about the urgent administrative order. Send the notice of objection to the municipal executive of your municipality.

The objection must at least include:

• Your name and address
• A description of the decision you are objecting to
• The reason(s) why you object
• Date and signature

Waste dumping unfortunately always occurs and cannot be prevented. However, it is important to clean them up as soon as possible, after an investigation (enforcement) has taken place. This way, we counteract copycat behaviour. People add waste if they see that something is already there.
Preventing and separating waste properly can be quite a challenge. That is why the environmental coaches and supervisors of Waardlanden are ready to inform and help residents as best they can with less residual waste and (even) better separation where necessary. The underground containers do not all close at the same time, but per area. Our supervisors and environmental coaches are visible in those areas to help residents where necessary.
If the offering behaviour does not eventually improve, our supervisors will proceed to apply urgent administrative enforcement.

Supervision & Enforcement is part of the new waste and raw materials policy of the municipality of Gorinchem, Molenlanden, Hardinxveld-Giessendam and Vijfheerenlanden. This policy was adopted in 2021. The policy plan sets out how the municipalities, together with Waardlanden, intend to reduce the amount of residual waste from 232 kilograms in 2020 to 100 kilograms per person per year in 2025. To achieve this goal, waste must be better separated. Periodic checks and the use of enforcement on correct separation behaviour are part of the new policy. Placing waste at the underground container is also addressed, as it creates an unsafe and unhealthy neighbourhood.  

You have a yellow card attached to your container because there is rubbish in your container that should not be in it. We all make mistakes or sometimes don't know exactly what is meant. This is what our drivers have yellow cards for in the collection truck. By hanging a yellow card on your container, we want to point out to you that there is waste in your container that should not be there. 

Our driver will indicate on the map exactly what it is about. Don't worry. We will not resort to emergency administrative enforcement and your container will be emptied as usual (this time).Put your waste in the right container and avoid a red card

Do you ever doubt which bin a product or material belongs in? The separation guide helps!
https://www.waardlanden.nl/particulieren/afval-en-grondstoffen/scheidingswijzer   

You have a red card attached to your container because there is rubbish in your container that should not be there. Our driver was unfortunately unable to empty your container because of this. Our driver has indicated on the red card which waste is in it that is not allowed. 

Before putting the container back on the road at the next collection round, you should first remove any waste that does not belong in it. Put the waste in the appropriate container or bring it yourself to one of our environmental centres.

Note: We will not return to empty your container as yet. In your personal waste calendar you will see when the next collection day is. 

Do you ever doubt which bin a product or material belongs in? The separation guide helps!
https://www.waardlanden.nl/particulieren/afval-en-grondstoffen/scheidingswijzer   

Before you put the container back on the road at the next collection round, you must first remove any waste that does not belong in it. We will not come back to empty your container after all. In your personal waste calendar you will see when the next collection day is. Put the waste in the right container or take it to the environmental centre yourself.

Do you ever doubt which bin a product or material belongs in? The separation guide helps!
https://www.waardlanden.nl/particulieren/afval-en-grondstoffen/scheidingswijzer   

When we carry out checks to see the quality of raw materials, we do not record any personal data. We only indicate if there is something in the container that does not belong in it. We do not know to whom the container belongs. Therefore, this check does not violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).