Sorting and recycling your waste

Garden waste

While the 2% of incorrectly sorted waste in paper and cardboard may seem small, it nevertheless represents almost 1,000 tonnes of incorrectly sorted waste per year.

What?

Sorting your paper and cardboard

Washing powder box

Paper bags

Cereal box

Newspapers, magazines and leaflets

Books

Empty roll

Stationery and printing paper

Paper bags

Cardboard boxes

Where?

Where can you place your paper and cardboard waste?

In the yellow bag

In the yellow container (apartment buildings).
Paper and cardboard items must be placed loose in the container.

In our Recypark
- Free up to 3m3 per visit and per day
- €121 incl. VAT above 3 m3

To transport your professional waste to the Recypark, your company must be registered with Bruxelles Environnement as a waste carrier.

How?

A few rules

Your paper and cardboard items must be clean and dry.
Any cardboard item that does not fit into the yellow bag must be folded and firmly tied.
Newspapers can be piled. They must then be tied.

Do not throw away advertising leaflets and magazines with their plastic wrapping (throw the wrapping in th blue bag or in the blue container).
Your bag may not exceed 15 kg.

We also encourage you to download our sorting memo and to fix where it can easily be seen (fridge door ...)..

Memo tri

In 2009, the PMD collected still contained 60% of poorly sorted waste. Today, this figure has been reduced to 27% thanks to our mutual commitment to better sorting. In 2021, the blue bag became the New Blue Bag. From now on, almost all plastic packaging can be placed in the blue bag.

What?

What constitutes PMD?

Plastic packaging (P)

Lemonade, water, milk, juices,yogurts, bath products, liquid cleaning products, trays and raviers, jars and tubes, bags and small bags, films, flower pots, etc.

Metal packaging (M)

Cans, tins, metallic lids and caps from glass jars and bottles, boxes and containers, aluminium dishes, punnets and trays, food and cosmetics aerosols, deodorants,etc.

Drink cartons (D)

Fruit juices, soup, milk, cream,etc;

Where?

Where can you place your PMD ?

In the blue bag

In the blue container (apartment buildings).
PMD must be placed loose in the container.

In our Recypark
- Free up to 3m3 per visit and per day
- €121 incl. VAT above 3 m3

How?

A few rules

Do not nest packaging in each other and do not put it together in knotted bags.

Do not hang anything on the outside of the bag.

To deposit

Household PMD packaging with a volume 8 liters≤ 8l
Well emptied, drained or scraped
Flattened and closed with their cap
Remove the plastic film from the tray and discard both separately in the bag

Not to deposit

Packaging holding more than 8l
Packaging with childproof caps
Packaging with at least one of the following pictograms :

Hazardous to health - long term

Toxic
Motor oil and pesticide packaging, silicone tubes
Expanded polystyrene
Packaging made of a combination of materials (e.g. plastic film layer + aluminium film layer) which cannot be separated, like some drink, fruit purée or wet pet food pouches etc.

We also encourage you to download our sorting memo and to fix where it can easily be seen (fridge door ...).

Memo tri

Food waste represents about 40% of your white bag. Sorting them allows for green energy recovery and production of compost. Find here all the information on the sorting of food waste in the Brussels Region.

What?

What do we call food waste ?

Food leftovers (including meat and fish)

Vegetables and fruit peelings

Coffee grounds

Tea bags (paper only)

Paper towels (used only to absorb food residues)

Handkerchiefs ans paper napkins

Expired food (without packaging)

Where?

Where to put your food waste ?

In the orange bag

In the orange container
- The container is provided free of charge and must be used for the food waste collections to avoid the orange bag being torn apart by animals.
- It preserves the cleanliness of the public space.
- Please take it back inside as soon as you can after the collection has happened

The households can obtain a free orange container from one of our Recyparks and from their local authority.

MUNICIPALITIES

Anderlecht

Address: Rue de Weeweyde, 100, 1070 Anderlecht.
Openings hours: from Monday to Friday between 8 am and 3 pm.