Uitvoeringsorganisatie Waardlanden is not a commercial company, but a partnership of the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden. This so-called joint arrangement handles waste collection for and on behalf of the four municipalities.

The tasks of waste collection and processing have been formally transferred to Waardlanden. Waardlanden performs these tasks based on the adopted waste ordinances and municipal policies of the participating municipalities. The board of Waardlanden is formed by an alderman from each of the four municipalities: Alderman Mark de Boer, Alderman Ton van Maanen, Alderman Arco Bikker (chairman) and Alderman Jan Nederveen.

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Operating organisation

The Joint Arrangements Act (Wgr) is the main basis for cooperation between municipalities, provinces and water boards. The business management organisation is a light form of cooperation with a single board. In it, the board takes charge of the day-to-day business operations, under the supervision of the municipalities. The operational organisation can only be set up by so-called collegiate regulations. This automatically limits the cooperation to implementation or operational management, the legal responsibilities of that college.

Regulations and statutes

Organisation

• Joint operational management organisation Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden
• Framework procurement policy Reinigingsdienst Waardlanden 2020
  
  

Financial

• Financial regulation 2025
  
  

Complaints

Are you not satisfied with our service and have a complaint? If so, you can submit a complaint. You can send it to:

Waardlanden
Attn: Complaints coordinator
PO Box 555
4200 AN Gorinchem
E-mail: info@waardlanden.nl

Please note that telephone and verbal complaints and complaints on social media cannot be handled by us.

More information can be found in the complaints and notification procedure.

Paper association volunteers can sign up for the 'Safe Waste Paper Collection' course here.

For questions, please contact paper coordinator Jos de Lorm: 06-51406861.
Or send an e-mail papier@waardlanden.nl.

Sign up for 'Safe waste paper collection' course

Do you want to be a driver on a modern cleaning vehicle? Do you dream of being a maintenance engineer in a professional workshop? Would you like to contribute to a beautiful, clean living environment in our beautiful region together with enthusiastic colleagues? Then a job at Waardlanden is just the thing for you.

With a team of some 110 employees, we provide daily waste and raw materials collection for the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden. We value a social staff policy. We offer our employees collective and supplementary health insurance and disability insurance. And thanks to a generation pact, older employees are given the opportunity to reduce their working hours earlier. Employment conditions that our people value highly.

Vacancies

We are looking for new colleagues! Are you interested? We would like to hear from you and look forward to getting to know you.

• Managing director

For our organisation, we are looking for a General Manager. (36 hours per week)

• Environmental coach

We are looking for an Environmental Coach (32-36 hours per week)

• Senior Administrator / Bookkeeper 

For team Information Management, we are looking for a Senior Administrator / Bookkeeper. (36 hours per week)

• Team manager public space management, commercial waste, underground containers  

We are looking for a Team Manager Public Space Management, Commercial Waste, Underground Containers. (32-36 hours per week)

Waardlanden is a socially aware cleaning company. We work hard every day to help you residents in the municipalities of Gorinchem, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Molenlanden and Vijfheerenlanden to keep discarded products and materials available for reuse and recycling in the best possible way. We do this by offering various options and services to separate waste and raw materials. Our spearheads are sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Towards a new waste and resources policy

'Together for a waste-free and clean municipality' is the title of the new waste and raw materials policy plan. The title indicates the central goal Waardlanden and the municipalities want to work towards in the coming years. The plan describes the strategy and measures that should lead to more and better separation of reusable waste (raw materials) and reduction of the amount of residual waste. But also towards a cleaner municipality.

• Strategy paper 2021 - 2025, Together for a waste-free and clean municipality

To substantiate the chosen strategy and measures, a scenario study was carried out, a catalogue of measures was drawn up and a vision document for the environmental centres was prepared.

• Scenario study on future collection systems Waardlanden municipalities
• Possible measures new waste and raw materials policy Waardlanden municipalities
• Vision document, Another look at Waardlanden's waste recycling centres

The colleges of mayors and aldermen of the Waardlanden municipalities adopted the plan and other reports in early April 2021. The colleges submit the plan to the municipal councils.

What do residents think?

Residents were explicitly involved in the creation of the new waste and raw materials policy. Wishes, motives and perceptions were inventoried in spring 2020 with a residents' survey. Good suggestions came out of this survey. We supplemented these suggestions with our suggestions and possible measures, and submitted them again in a second residents' survey in early 2021.

• View the resident survey results report here (May 2020)
• View the resident survey results report here (March 2021)

Want to know more?

Find answers to frequently asked questions about:

• Reverse collection in Vianen
• The new waste and resources policy

Is your question not here? And do you have wishes and ideas about 'more raw materials, less residual waste'? To the contact form, we are happy to help.

• Street + no: Island 1
• Postal code: 4143 EN
• Place: Leerdam
• E-mail: repaircafeleerdamnoord@gmail.com
• Note opening hours: Open on the first Monday afternoon of the month from 13:30 to 16:00

• Location name: North House
• Street + no: Noorderplein 1
• Postal code: 4225 RT
• Place: Noordeloos
• Note opening hours: Open on the last Wednesday of the month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

• Street + no: Aaksterveld 2
• Postal code: 4233 GC
• Place: Ameide
• Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00

• Location name: Giessenburg village hall
• Street + no: Breetstraat 2
• Postal code: 3381 BS
• Place: Giessenburg
• Note opening hours: Open on the third Thursday of the month from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

• Location name: Village room (small room) of MFC Den Hoek
• Street + no: Village road 81
• Postal code: 4221 LJ
• Place: Hoogblokland
• E-mail: dorpskamerhoogblokland@gmail.com
• Tuesday: 19.30 - 21.00
• Thursday: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
• Note opening hours: Open on every first Tuesday evening and Thursday morning of the month

• Location name: Kringlooplein Nieuw-Lekkerland
• Street + no: Ambachtsweg 2
• Postal code: 2957 ST
• Place: Nieuw-Lekkerland
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• Note opening hours: Equipment can be handed in and collected during the Kringloop Square's opening hours.