To recognize your own "kliko" you can use stickers, your housenumber for instance.

the green bucket               'green' waste              once in the 2 weeks...

 the result of green waste => black earth ! That's nice!

Biodegradable waste is a type of waste, typically originating from plant or animal sources, which may be broken down by other living organisms. Waste that cannot be broken down by other living organisms may be called non-biodegradable.

Biodegradable waste can be commonly found in municipal solid waste,  (in the Netherlands called GFT ( Groente (vegetables), Fruit (fruit) and  Tuinafval ( garden waste) as Green waste,  Food waste, Paper waste, and Biodegradable plastics. Other biodegradable wastes include Human waste, Manure, Sewage, Slaughterhouse waste. 

At the start, a several years ago, everybody had to think very good, what is for the green bucket and what for the grey. And maybe you made a mistake sometimes. But now it's so normally.

Since a few weeks every housekeeping got a third bucket (GREY with a BLUE cover) only determined for paper: advertisement leaflets, the daily papers, but also all kind of  packagings.

               young learnt...

When a Dutchman goes to the grocer's, he takes at the same time his empty glass to the BOTTLE BANK (Glasbak in Dutch), every grocery has one or more in front of his shop. You can throw it away seperate in three colours: green, white and brown. All the glass is recicled.

Oftenly you can bring old shoes to a shoeshop, old medicins at the pharmacy and an old pair of glasses at a optician. Old tools at a Do-It-Yourself shop. All these things are controlled and repaired for a second life in the third world.

Have you much waste, too much for your kliko, for instance because you worked in your garden at a saturday, you can bring it to the refuse-dump-station. There are several containers and you have to seperate your waste. Wood, iron, stone, textile, paper, chemical waste, green waste, etcetera. If you cannot bring it by yourself, you can make an appointment by telephone for the coming week and it is picked up, you only have to put it at the road that day. In big cities once a week 'big waste' is picked up automaticly.

the green waste of your garden, bring it here...

The personnel will help you of course with heavy things.... 

There is also a container for stuff and goods, which can still be used by others: toys, furniture, books, etc. These are going to the REUSE-SHOPS. The same with good clothes. ( see also my post of 3rd of October 2007, about FREE-SHOPS)

Textile and old clothes you can oftenly bring to containers at shopcentra too. Good clothes and shoes are cleaned and given to very poor people, vagabonds  and homeless people. Special The Salvation Army is very, very active with those things. 

Especially on saterday the refuse-waste-station is always a busy place and it's almost a pleasure to see, that everybody is conscious separating his waste!  

Well friends, you've learned a lot about the waste gathering in the Netherlands. A pleasure to get comment !