From lifeless chickens to diapers and wooden waste in natural waste containers: “We can be checking incorrect sorters extra strictly” (Sint-Niklaas)

“Gft stands for vegetable, fruit and backyard waste. However we’ve got observed that the containers are utilized by many individuals to additionally dump waste that doesn’t belong there,” says Maxime Vanderhaeghen, spokesperson for MIWA. (Proceed studying beneath the photograph)

For instance, the rubbish collectors have already discovered used diapers, compostable baggage, bread baggage, plastic baggage, wooden blocks, vacuum cleaner baggage and even lifeless chickens within the inexperienced containers. “And that’s not the intention,” says Vanderhaeghen. “Errors occur resulting from ignorance or inattention. However sadly, the gathering workforce additionally has to cope with residual waste that’s hidden below a layer of natural waste. The collectors then should manually take away this from the gathering truck throughout the spherical with a purpose to fallacious to keep away from waste within the rubbish truck.”

“If residual waste leads to natural waste, your complete load of the gathering truck can’t be composted, however have to be processed as residual waste. So it have to be incinerated. Very polluting and in addition very costly.”

Maxime Vanderhaeghen

Spokesperson MIWA

“That’s the reason MIWA is organising strict checks on the proper sorting of natural waste within the coming weeks,” says the spokesperson. “Throwing your waste within the fallacious container has main penalties. If residual waste finally ends up with natural waste, your complete load of the gathering truck can’t be composted, however have to be processed as residual waste. So it have to be incinerated. Very polluting and in addition very costly. Each citizen is partly chargeable for this.” (Proceed studying beneath the photograph)

A workforce from MIWA will now accompany the common collectors of natural waste within the coming weeks. “Containers with sorting errors won’t be emptied. They may stay with an data tag on the container stating the rationale why it was refused,” Vanderhaeghen provides.

Anybody who’s not sure about what could or could not go within the inexperienced or blue bag can discover all the knowledge on the waste calendar or the sorting information at www.miwa.be.