From lifeless chickens to diapers and wooden waste in natural waste containers: “We’re going to examine incorrect sorters extra strictly” (Sint-Niklaas)

“Gft stands for vegetable, fruit and backyard waste. However now we have seen that many individuals use the containers to dump waste that doesn’t belong there,” says Maxime Vanderhaeghen, spokesperson for MIWA. (Learn extra under the photograph)

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’s not the intention,” says Vanderhaeghen. “Errors occur resulting from ignorance or inattention. However sadly, the gathering crew additionally has to take care of residual waste that’s hidden underneath a layer of natural waste. The collectors then should manually take away this from the gathering truck throughout the spherical to be able to fallacious keep away from waste within the rubbish truck.”

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

Maxime Vanderhaeghen

Spokesperson MIWA

“That’s the reason MIWA will manage 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 leads to the natural waste bin, all the load of the gathering truck can’t be composted, however have to be processed as residual waste. So get burned. Very polluting and in addition very costly. Each citizen is partly liable for this.” (Learn extra under the photograph)

A crew from MIWA will now accompany the common collectors of natural waste within the coming weeks. “Containers with sorting errors aren’t emptied. They continue to be standing with an info hanger on the container stating the rationale why it was refused,” Vanderhaeghen added.

You probably have any doubts about what could or could not go within the inexperienced or blue bag, yow will discover all the data on the waste calendar or the sorting information at www.miwa.be.