You can separate disposable nappies in special nappy waste bags and hand them in for free at one of Waardlanden's environmental centres. Or even better: choose smart and save more with washable nappies. Better for the environment and your wallet.

Advantages of washable nappies

With washable nappies, your baby is potty-trained faster and suffers much less from nappy rash thanks to the natural materials. These modern nappies are very easy to use. Moreover, you avoid waste and save trips to the recycling centre. So washable nappies are better for the environment and your wallet. More information can be found at milieucentraal.nl/mazzelkontjes.

Hand in disposable nappies free of charge at the waste disposal site

You collect the used disposable nappies in a special waste bag for baby nappies, which you can pick up at environmental centres and in a number of other places in the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden. Take the full bag to the recycling centre, where you can dispose of it free of charge in a special container. The semi-transparent nappy disposal bags may only contain used disposable nappies. So do not add (latex) gloves, flannels, pads, ointment pots, tubes or other materials. This is very harmful to the recycling process.

Locations waste bags for baby nappies

You can collect special waste bags for baby nappies at these locations. Check the opening hours of the various venues in advance.

Medical waste

The bin bags for nappies are not intended for incontinence material. Incontinence materials fall under medical waste in the Waardlanden municipalities. People with a medical indication who cannot reduce their residual waste due to medical waste may be eligible for compensation. They can contact the municipality for more information.

Why return disposable nappies separately?

If you throw disposable nappies in the residual waste, they end up in the incinerator. Disposable nappies that you hand in separately at the waste recycling centre are partly processed into raw material to make new products, such as plastic car parts. This type of processing has less impact on the environment than incineration in a waste-to-energy plant.

This is how we move together towards a clean environment and waste-free future. More videos and useful tips for reducing and separating waste can be found at waardlanden.nl/help-tips.

Questions

Do you have a question about baby nappy collection?

> Find the answers to frequently asked questions on the collection of baby nappies and medical waste here

Summer inflatables are made of soft PVC, which is easy to recycle. You can hand in broken or leaky summer inflatables separately from 1 July to 31 October at one of our environmental centres for recycling.

Broken inflatable products are now thrown in the residual or bulky waste, ending up as residual waste in the incinerator. This is not only bad for the environment, but we also lose important raw materials. These products are made of soft PVC, which is easy to recycle. By returning them separately, they can be turned into raw materials to make new products such as garden hoses, shoe soles, slippers and even roofing materials. In the months of July, August, September and October, you can dispose of summer inflatables separately at one of our waste recycling centres. This way, inflatable articles get a second life as raw material for a new product.  

What is allowed in the container for inflatables?

All inflatable items made of soft PVC are allowed in the separate container for inflatable items. This means all inflatable items used for water fun.
If your answer is YES to the following 2 questions, then your item may go into the special container: 

• Can you blow up your article? 
• Do you use it on the beach or by the pool? 

Examples of inflatable soft PVC articles

• beach balls

• swimming bands

• small floats

• inflatable figures

• air beds (unless they have a velour or velvet layer on them)

What should not go in the container for inflatable items

• balloons

• footballs

• large (inflatable) swimming pools 

Why don't summer inflatables belong in pmd?

PMD includes all packaging made of plastic or metal and all beverage containers. Inflatable articles are not packaging, but utensils. Because they have a different composition, they do not belong to pmd. The recycling plant where pmd goes cannot process leaky beach balls or air mattresses. It can even cause pmd rejects and malfunctions in the installation. So do not put inflatable articles with the pmd, but hand them in free of charge with your environmental pass at one of our waste recycling points from 1 July to 31 October. In this way, we are moving together towards a clean environment and waste-free future.

Do you want to get rid of your old bike, but it is too good for the scrap metal? With the "a second life for used bikes" project, your discarded bike will get a second life.

Take your bicycle to the recycling centre

You can send your old bicycle to the waste disposal site or thrift shop bring. 

Refurbishment

SitY Academy, Bewonersorganisatie Monnikenhof, De Gezel and Opnieuw & Co Leerdam repair discarded bicycles so that they are usable again and meet legal requirements. Then they make sure the bikes end up in a good place: with people on a small budget who cannot afford a new bike.

Work for people in vulnerable position

All workshops employ people with a vulnerable position on the labour market as bicycle mechanics. They work here in a safe environment. Under the guidance of a learning master, they develop into craftsmen.

Successful cooperation

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

Windows, mirrors, an old glass shower wall and other flat glass can be taken to one of our environmental centres bring.

There is a special container for flat glass at the environmental street where you can put it in. We will make sure it is recycled.

The designation flat glass is the counterpart of hollow glass, which is packaging glass. You can put packaged glass (empty bottles and jars) in a glass container in the neighbourhood or at the shopping centre. There are also glass containers at the environmental centres. Do not put packaging glass in the container for flat glass.

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

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

Styrofoam from packaging (eps) can be disposed of separately at one of our environmental centres. We make sure it is recycled. For example, large pieces of Styrofoam that protect electrical appliances from knocks during transport.

Contaminated polystyrene packaging, such as meat trays, belongs to the residual waste. You can also buy small pieces of Styrofoam at the residual waste do. Styrofoam never belongs to the pmd (plastic packaging, metal, tin and beverage containers).

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

Free drop-off at the environmental centre for recycling

There is a special container at the waste disposal site 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 waste disposal site, you are helping to protect the environment. 
Does your old mattress or topper not fit in your car? Then you can take it to the recycling centre free of charge borrow a trailer.

Collection of your mattress or topper 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 that you have collected from your home is residual waste and will be incinerated. A shame, because bulky household waste contains many valuable materials that can be reused. With a fee on this collection service, the municipalities encourage you to sort your bulky waste and deliver it separately to the waste disposal site.

You can take plasterboard away to one of our environmental centres. There is a special container there for plaster. Then we make sure it is recycled.

For gypsum recycling, it is important to keep the gypsum handed in as pure and clean as possible, i.e. not contaminated with substances that interfere with the recycling process.

Gypsum you may offer for recycling:

• All plaster blocks: heavy, solid blocks in white, green, blue or pink
• Fermacell sheets
• Plasterboard (offered loose)

This should not contain gypsum waste:

• Wood fibreboards
• Pressed straw slabs
• Cementitious slabs
• Insulation material
• Wood
• Aerated concrete/cellular concrete/Ytong (light, porous blocks, the inside is light grey)
• Metal
• Asbestos
• All types of plastic
• Plasterboard and gypsum blocks with tiles

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

Gas cylinders, fire extinguishers and other pressure containers can be taken to one of our environmental centres bring.

There is a special drop-off point, please ask the manager. We will make sure they are recycled.

Please note that pressure containers are not electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste).

Roofing leather and other roofing materials can be sent to one of our environmental centres bring. There is a special container here where you can put it in. We will make sure the merchandise is recycled.

Roofing material that you hand in at the waste disposal site can be used in the production of new roofing materials. Examples of roofing material include roofing leather, bituminous roofing, roofing gravel and mastic.
You cannot return tar in packaging as roofing tar, this is small chemical waste (kca) and hand in as such. Putty tubes are also not allowed in the container for roofing tar, these belong in the residual waste.