We understand that separating less residual waste and raw materials properly is sometimes quite a challenge. After all, which materials belong where? What do you do with things you no longer use? And how do you contribute to a smooth collection of waste and raw materials? We are happy to help. We do so with:
Lekker Opgeruimd: less waste and even better separation
With the "Lekker Opgeruimd" campaign, we help residents to create less waste step by step and separate raw materials even better. You will find here Useful tips, explanations and inspiration for at home. Small habits that you can put to use immediately.
Find out more about the Lekker Opgeruimd campaign
Together through the seasons: tips to suit the time of year
Throughout the year, things change in and around the house. Each season calls for something different - from tidying up and gardening to preparing for cold, wind or holidays. This sometimes raises questions: what to do where, what to do when, and how to make it easy on yourself? With 'Together through the seasons', we help you at the right time. You will find tips to suit the time of year.
Find out more about the campaign Together through the seasons
Tackling litter
Litter is not only dirty to look at, it is also bad for nature and animals. That is why we work together with a group of enthusiastic residents to create a clean environment. Everyone who takes a Meeraapt, making our region visibly cleaner. Discover here How you can also join as a volunteer litter picker or how to start a clean-up campaign.
Find out more about tackling litter
Environmental education
Awareness and behavioural change are the keywords to reduce the flow of residual waste. Our colleagues can be found in the neighbourhood every day and are happy to help with questions and advice.We also offer various programmes and focus on educational and practical support.
Find out more about environmental education
Monitoring and enforcement
Our supervisors help prevent serious pollution. They sometimes come across serious pollution, such as rubbish next to collection containers or dumped waste in public areas. This is a dirty sight, creates litter, attracts pests and can disrupt collection. A container with sidelines can sometimes not be emptied, causing trouble for the whole neighbourhood. Our supervisors do all they can to stop that from happening. Do you have questions about waste or raw materials? Feel free to speak to our supervisors. They are happy to think along with you.
Every day we throw away all sorts of things as waste. Plastic, food scraps, cardboard, glass, an old table, you name it. To us, it is waste, we don't want anything more with it. Yet almost all this waste can very well get a second life. It is not waste. Reuse is good for the environment. By recycling, we don't have to throw away as much as waste. So we save raw materials and energy needed to make new products.
Circular economy
When you recycle waste, you help create a clean and waste-free environment, for yourself and future generations. That is the ultimate goal of a circular economy. A world with as little waste as possible where we reuse discarded products. If you buy products that are sustainably packaged or packaging-free, you also contribute significantly to this. We will work even harder to reduce waste in the coming years. We need your help to achieve this!
Less residual waste: good for the environment and your wallet
Together with the municipalities, we encourage and help all residents with less residual waste and even better separation. To this end, the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden together with Waardlanden drew up a new waste and raw materials plan in 2021. This plan is called the Strategy Memorandum 2021-2025: Together for a waste-free and clean municipality. This plan describes how we will reduce the amount of residual waste to no more than 100 kilograms per inhabitant in 2025. If we prevent residual waste and reuse more of it, we will need to extract fewer new materials from the earth. This will leave less residual waste to be incinerated. Also, the central government's incineration tax makes burning residual waste increasingly expensive. So less residual waste is important for the environment and for your wallet.
Find out more in the strategy note and in the mid-term review strategy paper 2021 - 2025.
Measures show impact
As part of the new policy, several measures were taken, such as the closure of underground containers and the introduction of the environment pass. In the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam and Molenlanden, the recycling tariff was also introduced. Residents in these municipalities pay a rate each time they dispose of their residual waste. In the Vijfheerenlanden municipality, this does not yet apply. By 2024, residual waste had fallen to 133 kg of residual waste on average per inhabitant. A 40% decrease compared to the 232 kilos of residual waste average per inhabitant in 2020, before the introduction of the strategy memorandum. Separation of raw materials also increased across the area, with on average 9 kilos more vegetable, fruit, garden and food waste (VGF), 6 kilos more plastic packaging, metal packaging and beverage containers (pmd) and 1.5 kg more textiles per inhabitant.
Most waste is raw material
Some 75 per cent of our waste is raw material. Such as VGF, luirs and pmd. If we separate these properly, we can reuse them. For example, we can turn VGF waste into compost. From PMD we can make new packaging and products. And an old table gets a new life if we bring it to the recycling centre.
> Find out more about waste and resource separation
Tips and advice on waste separation?
Preventing residual waste and separating waste properly is sometimes quite a challenge. That is why our environmental coach Nelleke is happy to help you with tips and advice.
Questions?
We can imagine that you have concerns and questions about policy and strategy. This is understandable. That is why you will find answers to frequently asked questions on our website.
Sixty per cent less waste in our region by 2025! How? By preventing unnecessary waste. If waste does arise, we separate it for reuse or recycling. This way, we do not waste raw materials and do not deplete the earth. We can only achieve this together. You can help too!
Looking for inspiration to avoid wasting resources? These practical tips will help you.
> Also discover tips against food waste
Tip 1 Choose reusable
Bring your own shopping bag and fruit net when you go shopping. Don't accept paper bags either. These are no better for the environment and often can only be used once.
Tip 2 Share, borrow and swap
Doing things like (garden) tools, a party tent and toys together saves money for the environment and the wallet.
Tip 3 Give away or sell
Do you no longer need a product yourself? Then don't throw it away. But give it a new life. Give it to someone else or sell it. Or bring it to the Kringlooplein, the thrift shop Or the gift shop.
Tip 4 Pimp second-hand items
Do you still have an old cabinet? Then give it a lick of paint, a different layout or different knobs. That way, you can turn something old into something new.
Tip 5 Repair broken appliances
Does a device stop working? Then don't throw it away right away. Try to repair it first, take it to a repair café or hand it in at the environmental street. So it can be recycled.
Tip 6 Save paper
Working digitally is the most normal thing in the world. And yet we use person on average 154 kilos of paper and cardboard a year. Save a lot of paper with a letterbox sticker. Such a sticker ensures fewer advertising leaflets. You can easily read the leaflets online. Listen to more tips in the podcast by Milieu Centraal.
Tip 7 Put waste in the right containers
And do you still have waste with these tips? Then throw your waste in the right containers. That way, it can be made into something new. For example, your green waste will become compost again.
Do you have questions or a practical tip of your own to share? Mail our environmental coaches, they will be happy to help you.
At Waardlanden you can arrange matters yourself (online). For example, you can file reports, borrow a trailer, schedule collection appointments for bulky household waste and bulky garden waste and order dog waste bags.
- Make a report
- Report lost or broken environmental pass
- Borrow a trailer
- Make bulky waste appointment
- Make appointment for emergency emptying of underground container
- Order dog waste bags
- Apply for verification of failed deposit
- Moving house: arranging waste at your new address
Download Waardlanden app
You can also download the Waardlanden app on your smartphone. This way you always have all information about waste and raw materials to hand. The app includes your personal waste calendar. You can also report waste quickly and easily. Download the app here!
The Board of the Joint Management Organisation Bedrijfsvoeringsorganisatie Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden;
DECISION:
adopt the following:
RULES, regulating the presentation of waste at the recycling square to:
Ambachtsweg 2, at Nieuw-Lekkerland.
Chapter 1 - General
Definitions
For the purposes of these regulations, the following definitions shall apply:
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"the circuit square" |
the area where reusable goods and materials and waste are handed over to employees. |
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"governance" |
the board of the Joint Management Organisation for the Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden. |
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"the director" |
the director of Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden or his deputy. |
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"the departmental implementation manager" |
the person who, under the responsibility of the director, is in charge of directing the team manager. |
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"the team manager" |
the person who, under the responsibility of the execution department manager, is in charge of the manager. |
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"the administrator" |
the person who, under the responsibility of the team manager, is in charge of supervision in the Kringloop square. |
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"employee recycle square" |
the person who, under the responsibility of the manager, is in charge of, among other things, providing services at the gate. |
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"provider" |
The person offering waste at the recycling square. |
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"carrier" |
the person, not employed by Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden, who transports containers of waste materials to places where these waste materials are processed or transhipped. |
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"waste materials" |
any waste, preparation or other product which the holder discards, intends to discard or is required to discard - with a view to its disposal. |
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"Resident of service area Cleaning Service" |
The person registered in the population register of the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden and of the former municipality of Lingewaal who pays waste disposal charges. |
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"companies" |
all legal entities and self-employed persons without staff, not being "residents of service area Cleaning Service". |
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"industrial waste" |
office, shop, and service waste according to the definitions as defined in the Environmental Management Act with implementing regulations. |
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"environmental pass" |
the pass provided by Waardlanden to residents paying waste collection fees, which gives these residents access to the recycling points. |
Chapter 2 - Provisions applicable to the circular square
Section 2.1 - Provisions for the provider
Article 2.1.1 It is only allowed to offer waste materials at the recycling square if the waste materials fall within the applicable permit under the Environmental Management Act. In addition, the requirements set out in these regulations must be met.
Article 2.1.2 The supplier of waste must be able to show proof of identity and an environmental pass at all times when presenting waste.
Article 2.1.3 Upon arrival within the circuit square, the provider is obliged to follow these regulations and the instructions provided by the manager or indicated by signs. The instructions must be strictly and immediately followed. The Road Traffic and Traffic Signals Regulations also apply on the premises.
Article 2.1.4 If these regulations or the instructions by or on behalf of the director, the execution department manager, the team manager or the manager are not followed, they are authorised to prohibit the provider from accessing the recycling square.
Article 2.1.5 The board, the director, the implementation department manager, the team manager or the manager may decide not to accept certain waste materials temporarily, if circumstances in and around the recycling centre give cause to do so. A refusal form shall be drawn up in this regard. The provider takes note of the refusal and the manager draws up a report of findings within a week. When certain waste materials may or can temporarily not be accepted, this will be announced on the website. www.waardlanden.nl be published.
Article 2.1.6 Waste materials must be offered during the opening hours set by the Board, as indicated on the board at the entrance to the recycling square. Deviations from the above opening hours will be announced in good time, through publication in the local papers and the website www.waardlanden.nl.
Article 2.1.7 It is prohibited to place or deposit waste in or around the recycling square in any place or manner other than as provided by or under these regulations.
Article 2.1.8 The transport and dumping of waste should be carried out in such a way as not to cause contamination of the access roads, the recycling square or its surroundings.
Article 2.1.9 Mode of offering by provider:
The provider reports to the manager/ employee circle square.
- The supplier is obliged to show his environmental pass and provide information about the waste delivered to the manager/ employee of the recycling centre .
- The administrator/staff member will mention any charges.
- If applicable, the provider executes the financial transaction.
- The caretaker/ staff member will give instructions to the provider. The provider is obliged to follow these instructions.
- Bringing/sorting waste materials without the permission of the manager/ employee of the recycling centre is prohibited. Spilled waste must be cleaned up by the provider himself.
- After the waste is deposited, the provider must immediately leave the recycling square with his vehicle.
- It is forbidden to take any goods, which are located on the circle square.
An exception is made for suppliers from outside the region who only bring reusable goods. They will have access to the recycling square without an environmental pass.
Article 2.1.10 Access to the circular square:
- It is forbidden to be in the circuit court outside the times set by the board.
- Persons under 12 years of age are only admitted to the recycling square in a vehicle. They are not allowed to leave this vehicle while offering waste.
- Persons other than waste suppliers are not allowed to be in the recycling square without the manager's permission.
- It is prohibited to bring waste and/or usable goods with a tractor and/or with a combination longer than 7.5 metres and/or heavier than 3,500 kg. It is also prohibited to bring waste materials with a trailer.
Article 2.1.11 It is forbidden for anyone to offer the following substances in the recycling square:
- Substances, which present a hazard by self-ignition, explosion, contamination and/or radiation;
- Substances that spread excessive odour or contain vermin;
- Hot ash;
- C-wood
- Roof waste
- KCA and gas cylinders (see Article 2.1.15)
- Vehicles subject to registration, such as end-of-life vehicles, scooters and parts thereof;
- Car tyres;
- Ground;
- Cadavers;
- Commercial waste, including commercial white and brown goods.
- Debris;
- Asbestos;
- Coarse green;
- Residual waste;
Article 2.1.12 Companies and non-residents of the Cleaning Service service catchment area are prohibited from offering waste. An exception is made for circular network partners who bring deferred household waste and have been given an access pass for this purpose.
Article 2.1.13 Cadavers will not be accepted and can be offered at the Gorinchem Animal Shelter located at Haarweg 1 in Gorinchem, among other places, on payment of the applicable fee.
Article 2.1.14 Small hazardous waste should be handed in at the chemical cart that is present at the recycling square once every 2 weeks. The provider must hand in the waste to the manager. He must also indicate which substances are being offered. Substances whose composition is not known will not be accepted.
Article 2.1.15 White and brown goods must be offered in such a condition that they can reasonably be called complete. The white and brown goods need not be in working condition. Retailers may request permission from the director to hand in their customers' white and brown goods at the recycling centre free of charge, without prejudice to what is prescribed in Articles 2.1.11 and 2.1.12.
Article 2.1.16 The administrator assesses whether there are prohibited substances and/or a non-legitimate provider. In case of refusal, the refusal form in Annex 1 is prepared by the administrator and given to the provider. The provider takes note of the refusal and the administrator prepares a report of finding within a week.
Section 2.2 - Provisions for the carrier
Article 2.2.1 Outside opening hours, transporters may only be on the premises with the express permission of the team leader and with the knowledge of the manager. When entering and leaving the premises outside opening hours, the entrance gates must be closed at all times.
Article 2.2.2 Carriers are prohibited from sorting waste.
Article 2.2.3 No containers of waste materials may leave the premises of the recycling centre if the necessary documents as prescribed by the government for the transport of waste materials are not completed or are incomplete.
Article 2.2.4 Upon arrival within the circuit square, the carrier is obliged to follow these regulations and the instructions provided by the manager or indicated by signs.
Article 2.2.5 If these regulations or the directions by or on behalf of the director, the execution department manager, the team manager, the administrator are not complied with, the director, the team manager, the administrator is authorised to deny the carrier access to the circuit court.
Article 2.2.6 The transportation of waste shall be carried out in such a way as not to cause contamination of the access roads, the recycling square or its surroundings.
Chapter 3 - Liability
Paragraph 2.3
Article 2.3.1 Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden accepts no liability whatsoever for the consequences of presenting waste materials other than those permitted under the recycling centre's Environmental Management Act and these regulations.
Article 2.3.2 Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden accepts no liability for the consequences of entering and driving on the grounds of the recycling square.
Article 2.3.3 The provider and the transporter shall be jointly and severally liable for damage caused by them, their staff, persons appointed by them or equipment used by them, or waste or other substances brought by them to the staff of the recycling centre. or to third parties' objects in use.
Article 2.3.4 The offeror and the carrier are jointly and severally liable for the costs of removal and/or destruction of the substances they offer.
Article 2.3.5 The provider and the carrier shall be jointly and severally liable for the cost of removing and/or nullifying substances offered by them which, in the opinion of the director, the execution department manager, the team manager, the manager, local or provincial and/or national government, could result in environmental degradation if not removed and/or nullified.
Article 2.3.6 The provider and the carrier shall indemnify Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden against all claims for damages by themselves or third parties, regardless of the cause of the damage.
Chapter 4 - Denial of access
Paragraph 2.4
Article 2.4.1 The director, the execution department manager, the team manager or the administrator, is authorised to indefinitely deny access to the recycling centre to the provider or carrier who violates the rules laid down in these regulations. The provider or carrier shall take note of the refusal and the administrator shall prepare a report of finding within one week. The provider will be informed of the refusal by the Waardlanden Cleaning Service within one week.
Chapter 5 - Entry into force and repeal
Paragraph 2.5
Article 2.5.1 These regulations shall come into force with effect from 1 March 2024 with simultaneous repeal of the regulations of Kringloopplein Waardlanden as adopted on 10 February 2022.
Chapter 6 - Final provision
Paragraph 2.6
Article 2.6.1 These regulations may be cited as "Reglement kringloopplein Waardlanden".
Adopted in the meeting of the board dated 26 February 2024.
the secretary
J.A.P. Rau
the chairman
A.C. Bikker
At the circuit square you can return items that are good enough to sell in the thrift shop and articles that are too recycle are.
Address
Ambachtsweg 2, Nieuw-Lekkerland
Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday: 13:00 - 17:00
Saturday: 09:00 - 16:00
How does it work?
U Comes to the circuit court and stops in front of the barrier. A staff member from the circular square will come to you and ask for your environmental pass. This pass is used to open the barrier and register your visit. You then drive into the tent and switch off the engine of your vehicle. Here you can unload your belongings and put them on the tables or in the containers provided.
What do we take for free?
For the cycle
- Decoration/furnishing
- Electrical appliances
- Baby items
- Small furniture
- Housewares
- Clothing
- Books
- Toys
- Visual and audio material
- Garden tools
- Cycling
- Assistive devices (e.g. a walker)
And with extra check*
- Dining areas with chairs
- Armchairs / sofas / cabinets
To be recycled
- Faulty electrical appliances (including white goods)
- Used baby nappies
- Frying fat and oil
- Hard plastic
- Mattresses (dry)
- Metal
- Paper and cardboard
- Textiles
- Flat glass
- Wood
- Reusable building material (see conditions)
- Chemical waste (2nd and 4th Saturday of the month from 9.30 to 11.00)
* Bring your items and a staff member will check if they are saleable. Make sure you have enough time to move on to another waste disposal site (if necessary).
To the Kringloop Square, you bring small amounts of items that fit in your boot or shopping bag. This means that your visit is usually free of charge. If you larger quantities or other goods, it is possible That you are referred to the environmental street in Groot-Ammers or that charges will be levied; only payable by debit card.
- Did you know that it is possible to have a trailer to borrow?
- For detailed regulations of the circuit court: click here.
What are we not taking on?
On the circular square we do not accept the items listed below. However, you can to one of the other recycling points bring.
- Bulky household waste
- Construction and demolition waste
- Heavy-duty storage furniture
- Rubble / tiles
- Prunings
- Car tyres
- Asbestos
- Gas cylinders
- Glass (coloured and white)
- Styrofoam
Repair café
Want to use an appliance again yourself after repair? Then bring it to the repair café, also located at the Kringlooplein. Equipment can be handed in and collected during the Kringlooplein's opening hours.
Collection of small chemical waste
At the Kringloopplein in Nieuw Lekkerland, you have the opportunity to dispose of your small chemical waste (kca) to be brought on the second and fourth Saturday of the month from 09:30 to 11:00. View offer conditions and tips here.
GAiN thrift shop (Building 83)
Address
Planetenlaan 83, Nieuw-Lekkerland
Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Every first Saturday of the month: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
> For more information, consult the GAiN website.
Working together on reuse
With this service at the Kringloopplein, we prevent still usable goods from being disposed of as waste and save raw materials needed to make new products. The Kringloopplein is a collaboration of Waardlanden, GAiN Kringloopwinkel, Jij bent in Beeld (from Philadelphia), Repaircafé Nieuw-Lekkerland (from Huis van de Waard) and Vluchtelingenwerk. Together, we give discarded goods and materials a second life. And give even more residents the opportunity to participate in society.
Delivered goods that nevertheless turn out to be unusable are dismantled, separated and disposed of for recycling whenever possible.
What are we not taking on?
At Kringloop Square, we will not take any bulky waste, none rubble (construction and demolition waste), prunings, car tyres and asbestos to. This will take you to one of the environmental centres.
Other conditions
Submission of reusable building material must meet the conditions of the 2nd chance building materials depot in Groot-Ammers. Bring large quantities of reusable building materials directly to the depot in Groot-Ammers.
