SORTING
THE
WASTE
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Dear student,
As you all know, we have a specific way of collecting
and sorting our garbage.
Here is some more information on this topic.
Please do your waste collection as explained in this note!
Your waste can always be refused or you can even get a fine!
Also keep in mind that you have to put the waste outside in
time!
Everyone likes a clean room, house and city!
And try to remember:
No waste is the best waste!!!
* As some of you are only staying for a couple of months it might be interesting to buy a package
with bags together with other students. You can buy them at supermarkets.
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SORTING PAPER
To recycle paper, it has to be clean enough.
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newspapers
magazines
letters
old books
advertising (without plastic)
envelopes
computerlistings
folded carton
paper and carton packages
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dirty paper
paper handkerchief
paper table drape
kitchen paper
carbonpaper
self sticking
drinking cartons of milk, fruitjuice,…
wallpaper
plastic bags
ISOMO of styrofoam
SORTING GLASS
To recycle glass there can be no impurities in it. All food or fluids have to be out of it.
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 Bottles and jars, transparant and
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crushed glass
porcelain, ceramics, pottery, juniper jars
mirrors, crystal and glass from glasses
bulbs and fluorescent tubes (tl-bulbs)
car windows, flat glass and reinforced
glass
 ampoules, tubes and bottles of medicines
How to offer?
 Door-to-door collecting
Please rinse bottles and jars.
Put them in a bucket or a solid container with closed soil and sidewalls
 Don’t put the glass in a carton box!
 Advise your waste calender for the exact dates of the glass collecting.
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SORTING REST GARBAGE
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 All the Household waste that you can’t
prevent or recuperate.
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Injection needles
medicine
glass
paint cans
all recyclable things (glass, paper and
carton, PMD, green waste)
How to offer?
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only in yellow IVAGO-bags (60 l or 30 l)
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Advise your waste calender for the exact dates of collecting.
tie it together, don’t stick it together
limit the weight: 15 kg for 60 l-bag and 7 kg for 30 l-bag
Be in time to place the bags outside on the collecting day. Starting from 6am in the
morning!
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EXCEPTIONAL BIG WASTE
IVAGO picks up the big waste at your doorstep.
Burnable large waste, wood and metals are collected separately. You can also bring them to
containers.
Things that can be re-used can be given to the kringloopwinkel. They pick it up for free.
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 burnable big waste
broken sofa’s, plastic buckets, matrasses
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 wood
windows (without glass), boards, , broken
chairs...
 metal
 burnable garbage which can be given
with the normal rest waste collection
 recyclable materials
(PMD, glass,paper and carton, small
toxic waste, small dangerous waste)
 construction and demolition waste,
toilet, sink, stone flower pots, plaster
board
birdcage, bucket...
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window glass or mirrors
rubber tires
green waste
electrical appliances: refrigerator, TV,
computer, washing machine
How to offer?
 Door-to-door collecting
Place the burnable waste, wood and metal waste separately.
 containerparks
 Advise your waste calender for the exact dates of the collecting.
 Extra collecting against payment
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GREEN WASTE
A large proportion of household waste consists of organic
material. Remains of vegetables and fruits, cut flowers, tea, coffee
grounds, ... do not belong to the garbage. We can handle it better
to be a useful and environmentally friendly product: compost. So
they are collected separately and to an industrial composting plant
conducted.
(In the city, a lot of people don’t have a separate green waste
container, so they put it with the rest waste)
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Potato peel
Eggshells, peel of citrus fruit and other fruit
vegetable remnants
nuts
tea leaf bags and coffee filters
paper kitchen roll
manure from small pets
wilted cut flowers and indoor plants
sawdust
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Carpenter wood
tree branches and roots
disposable dipers
earth and sand
tree roots
sauce, oil and greace
dust from a vacuum cleaner
ashes from a fireplace
Plastic
 shavings of hedge
 mowed grass leaves
 weeds, leafs, and cut wood
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charcoal
iron, metal cans
cat litter
sand
shells
bones
cooked food
SMALL DANGEROUS WASTE (KGA)
Small Dangerous Waste is the collective name of a series of products we use daily. Often they
contain harmful substances. These products must be stored safely. They may not damage our
environment. Still too often remains of white spirit, paint, frying
oil... end up in the sink or drainage. Or people put chemical
products with the normal garbage.
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poison and pesticides
 old medicine (pharmacy)
washing and cleaning products
fuels
frying fats or other fats or oils
acid batteries
cosmetics
aerosol paint
pesticides, solvents
How to offer?
 Save your KGA in the green box that we call ‘milieubox’ or in a
fully sealed plastic bag.
 Keep your milieubox in a safe, for children inaccessible place.
 Leave everything as much as possible in the
 Hand it in at the
containerparc..
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original packaging.
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PMD
Plastic bottles, Metal packages and Drinking cartons
(You already got a good note on this part of the waste)
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 all plastic bottles of water, soft drinks,
milk…
 plastic bottles of detergents, shampoo,
bath or shower gel, washing products,
dishwashing liquids …
 metal cans from soft drinks, beer,
water,…
 tins from canned food
 metal lids, screw caps and crown caps of
bottles and containers
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drink cartons of orange juice, milk etc.
spray cans of foodstuffs and cosmetics
aluminium dishes
metal boxes and cartons
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 yohurt cups or bottles of drinking yohurt
 butter and margarine dishes
 packings of poisonous or dangerous
products (insecticides etc)
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plastic foil
aluminium foil
plastic bags
injection needles
spray cans of paint, pesticides, solvents
etc.
 all plastic cups