Wheelie bins
General
Separate your waste for the different wheelie bins.
Request or report
Send us a request if you wish to change or add to the standard set of wheelie bins, or to order a new address sticker. If a wheelie bin is broken, please tell us.
Are you moving to a new build home and don't yet have any wheelie bins? Send a message using the email form and also provide your new address. Until your bins arrive, you can take your waste to the Waste Recycling Centre.
Wheelie bin not emptied
If your wheelie bin has not been emptied according to the schedule in the waste collection calendar? Please report it.
Wheelie bin disappeared
If your wheelie bin disappears after being emptied, please wait until the next collection day. If your wheelie bin hasn't been found by then, ring telephone number 14 076 to request a replacement wheelie bin.
What you need to know
Each household receives 3 green bins with a coloured lid (a standard set):
- Orange lid for plastic packaging waste, tins (cans) and empty drink cartons.
This wheelie bin is emptied once every 2 weeks. - Blue lid for paper and cardboard.
This wheelie bin is emptied once every 4 weeks. - Green lid for vegetable, fruit, garden and food waste (VFG+F).
This container is emptied once every 2 weeks.
Each household has at least 2 wheelie bins (1 with a blue lid and 1 with a green lid). Households in the suburbs also have 1 grey wheelie bin for general waste.
In a flat or apartment, you use the communal waste containers within your residential complex or the underground communal waste bins nearby.
Households in and around the city centre do not have wheelie bins. The waste is presented for collection by the refuse truck, alternatively waste can be presented next to the bicycle storage area on Oude Vest and Nieuwstraat.
The waste collection calendar shows on which day the wheelie bins are emptied. Collection is between 6.00 and 17.00 hours. Leave the wheelie bin outdoors on the day before collection after 21.00 hours. Remove the wheelie bin from the street on the same day it is emptied.
For safety reasons, it is not allowed to modify wheelie bins.
Changing or adding to the standard set
Every household has at least 1 wheelie bin with a blue lid and 1 wheelie bin with a green lid. The standard wheelie bin has a volume of 240 litres (dimensions 105 cm high, 59 cm wide, 73 cm deep). Wheelie bins with a volume of 140 litres (dimensions 105 cm high, 48 cm wide, 55 cm deep) are also available.
You can change your set of wheelie bins free of charge as follows:
- exchange a container for a different size (240 or 140 litres)
- ordering extra wheelie bins (extra wheelie bins for general waste cannot be ordered) paper and cardboard: no more than 2 extra wheelie bins
- plastic, tins (cans) and drink cartons: no more than 2 extra wheelie bins
- VFG+F (gft+e) wheelie bin: no more than 4 extra wheelie bins
- hand back the orange container for plastic, tins (cans) and drink cartons
- hand back additional wheelie bins
You can change your Green VFG+F (gft+e) arrangement once every 12 months.
If you move house, leave behind all wheelie bins at the property. The new resident sends a request if a change in format or numbers is desired.
