Waste

By delivering your household waste separately, you contribute to a better environment. 

Offering waste

  • You can dispose of your household waste in your neighborhood collection container.
  • Is there no collection container in your neighborhood? Then put out your trash on a set day.
  • Do you have bins that you take out every week? Then make sure the bins are not too full or too heavy. If you do not already have bins, request them from the municipality.

You can offer your waste in the following categories:

  • household waste
  • plastic and metal packaging and drinking containers (PMD)
  • small chemical waste (KCA)
  • used paper
  • glass
  • bulky waste
  • residual waste

If you are unsure which bin your waste belongs in, check Milieu Centraal's waste separation guide.

Offering plastic, metal and drinking containers (PMD).

  • You collect PMD waste in the specially designated bags.
  • Make sure all packages are empty.
  • Remove paper, cardboard or aluminum foil.

Offer your waste in 1 of the following ways:

  • Throw the PMD bag in the special collection container in your neighborhood.
  • Put your PMD waste outside on the designated day.

Handing in small chemical waste

Do not throw small chemical waste (KCA) in the garbage, but hand it in at the municipality's collection point. You can also hand in different types of KCA at other places, for example:

  • batteries at supermarkets and hardware stores
  • syringes and medications at the pharmacy
  • electrical appliances at electronics stores

Offering scrap paper

You can offer waste paper in different ways. Which way applies to you depends on where you live:

  • The municipality collects the waste paper at a set time.
  • You bring your scrap paper to the paper bins in your neighborhood.
  • You bring your scrap paper to a municipal collection point.

Return glass

  • You can throw glassware in the bottle bank. This glass is recycled. In this way, you are helping the environment.

Offering bulky waste

Is the trash too big or heavy to put in a garbage bag or container? Then it is bulky waste. Think furniture or flooring.

  • The municipality collects most bulky waste, except construction and demolition waste.
  • The municipality determines what time and where you put out the bulky garbage. This way the garbage does not cause a nuisance.
  • Separate bulky waste and make packages out of it.
  • You can also drop off your bulky waste at the municipality's collection point (waste collection station or environmental street).