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

“Gft stands for vegetable, fruit and backyard waste. However we’ve seen 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 picture)

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

“If residual waste leads to natural waste, the whole 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 right 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, the whole 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 liable for this.” (Proceed studying beneath the picture)

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

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