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Gijs Langeveld
June 6, 2014
Food waste collection in the Netherlands
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Dutch Waste Management Association
• Focus on raw materials and energy
• Represents 65% of waste volumes and market share
• Fifty members
• Activities: Recycling & Collection, Hazardous & Oil-
Containing Wastes, Bioconversion, Waste to Energy,
Landfilling and Sewer maintenance
• Bioconversion project: facilitate knowledge exchange
between municipalities to improve collection food and
garden waste
• www.wastematters.eu
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Content
1. Current situation NL
2. Study intervention highrise
3. Challenges
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Current situation
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Current situation
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• Political: MSW recycling percentage in 2020 = 75%
(currently 50%)
• Municipalities are responsible
• Legal: obligation to collect food waste, exception
possible!
Current situation
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Many good practises available:
• Minicontainer biowaste (food + garden waste)
• Polluter pays
• “Reversed waste collection” (service level resources is
higher than service level residual waste)
Houses with garden
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Million $ question
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• Population = 16,8 mln
• 415 municipalities
Urbanisation levelUrbanisation
levelPopulation
density
1 >1500
2 1100-1500
3 700-1100
4 350-700
5 <350
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Top 3 underperforming municipalities NL
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• Find succesfull interventions collection food waste
• Houses with no garden:
Objective
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• At least 17 municipalities collect food waste in highrise
• Door-to-door and Containers
• Pollution at containers (opening, pass)
• Amounts vary: 20-75 kg/hab/yr
First results
Collection # Cities
Door-to-door 4 Arnhem, Dordrecht centrum, Utrecht, (Nijmegen), MaastrichtIndoor container 1 Tilburg
Outdoor container 13
Almere, Apeldoorn, Capelle ad Ijssel, Dordrecht, Hilversum, Naarden, Nijkerk, Nijmegen, Nuenen, Tilburg, Venlo, Wageningen, Weesp
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Behaviour
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Storage
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Disposal
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• Participation percentage
• Communication
• Smell
• Comfort habitants
• Quality
• Taylor made solutions
• Social return
Challenges
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Gijs Langeveld
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