TWENTE MILIEU 

WASTE GUIDE

GETTING STARTED

We all know how important it is to separate waste and to be sustainable. But this can sometimes be quite difficult! Do you want to know how to properly deal with your waste in order to keep the city clean and to avoid a fine? Click further! 

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WHY YOU SHOULD SEPERATE WASTE

Pizza boxes, beer bottles, packaging and food scraps. If you properly separate this waste, only a small amount of general waste will remain. You pay for this general waste each time you offer it. So the better you separate your waste, the less you pay!

SAVE THE EARTH SEPERATE WASTE

Beside the financial benefits of dealing properly with waste, it is also important to the entire society! When you separate waste correctly, less waste needs to be burned, which results in less co2 emmission and a better environment.

WHAT DO YOU SEPERATE?

PACKAGING

All plastics, metals, and drink packaging.

ORGANIC WASTE

Vegetables, fruits, potato peelings, leftover cooked food, fish, shells, hardened cooking fat, grass, plants.

PAPER

Old newspapers, magazines, envelopes, paper packaging, paper wrappers. Pay attention! boxes must be torn apart first.

GENERAL WASTE

All remaining waste. Pay attention! Also pizza boxes must be disposed with general waste, this is an exception.

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WHERE TO DEPOSIT WASTE HIGH-RISE HOUSES

Bring paper to the collection container outside, or to an environmental square.

Bring packaging to the collection container outside, or to an environmental square.

Bring general waste to the collection container outside.

LOW-RISE HOUSES

WHERE TO DEPOSIT WASTE HIGH-RISE HOUSES

Paper is collected at home or take it to the collection container outside. Or to an environmental square.

Packaging is collected at home or take it to the collection container outside. Or to an environmental square.

General waste is collected at home, or take it to the collection container outside.

HIGH-RISE HOUSES

QUIZ TIME! ANSWER THE QUESTION IN YOUR HEAD, BEFORE YOU CLICK FURTHER TO SEE THE RIGHT ANSWER!

PACKAGING

GENERAL WASTE

PAPER

1. WHERE DO YOU DEPOSIT :

CHECK ANSWER

"An empty chips bag belongs with packaging."

PACKAGING

GENERAL WASTE

PAPER

2. WHERE DO YOU DEPOSIT :

CHECK ANSWER

"A mask belongs with general waste."

PACKAGING

GENERAL WASTE

PAPER

3. WHERE DO YOU DEPOSIT :

CHECK ANSWER

"Empty milk cartons belong with packaging."

PACKAGING

GENERAL WASTE

PAPER

4. WHERE DO YOU DEPOSIT :

CHECK ANSWER

"A pizza box that is empty and used, belongs with general waste."

PACKAGING

GENERAL WASTE

PAPER

5. WHERE DO YOU DEPOSIT :

CHECK ANSWER

"Boxes belong with paper. You have to tear them apart first!"

BAG SIZE

You can dispose a bag of up to 40 liters in a general waste container. That is comparable to a pedal bin bag. You can buy these bags in almost every supermarket, as well as online. You can't place a waste bag of more than 40 liters in a general waste container, because it will get stuck!

IF YOU DUMP YOUR WASTE NEXT TO THE BINS, YOU GET A FINE OF €95!

"YOU HAVE AN OLD  COUCH YOU NO LONGER LIKE. CLICK FURTHER TO SEE WHAT TO DO!"

WASTE COLLECTION POINTS

IF YOU DUMP OLD HOUSEHOLD ITEMS NEXT TO THE BINS, YOU GET A FINE OF €95!

WHY YOU NEED AN ENVIRONMENTAL PASS

WASTE COLLECTION POINT

The environmental pass allows you to access the waste collection point. You can dispose of bulky types of waste at the waste collection point, such as bulky garden waste, wood, mattresses, electrical devices and old furniture.

GENERAL/ORGANIC

You can use the environmental pass to open the collection container for general and organic waste.

HOW TO USE THE ENVIRONMENTAL PASS?

TWENTE MILIEU MOBILE APP

REPORTING

Report a full or broken collection container, a container that has not been emptied or illegally dumped waste.

SEPERATING GUIDE

Which waste goes where? 

OVERVIEW

Overview of container locations.

WASTE CALENDER

waste calendar to see when your waste is collected at home

THIS IS NOT THE END, BUT THE BEGINNING! TOGETHER WE CREATE A BETTER ENVIRONMENT!