But Assen does more than just checking containers. She also wants to make it easier for citizens to separate waste. And that is why the municipality will enter the neighborhoods and neighborhoods with a waste collection truck for the next three months.
Everything that fits in a shopping bag can bring the residents to this small environmental park on wheels. This concerns small chemical waste, household appliances, fluorescent tubes or wooden boards. “As long as the dimensions are not too large, and it fits in a shopping bag. But for which the citizen should go to the environmental park, they can now deliver in their own neighborhood or neighborhood. Convenience serves,” said Alderman Bert Jan ten Bank.
But here too the costs play a role. Because the more waste is thrown into the gray container by Assenaren, the higher the costs. “We notice that there are many gray trays with residual waste things that do not belong in it. We have to burn much more to the reuse of raw materials and less. Not only because of the costs, but also for the environment.”
The arrival of this so-called GRIP car (raw materials in the deposit) has copied Assen from the neighboring municipality of Noordenveld. “We saw that they had such a special cart and thought that a great way to offer our citizens an extra piece of service. With the important profit less stuff in the container with residual waste, and therefore fewer expenses. Everyone benefits from that” , according to Alderman ten Oever.
For three months, the moving waste stall travels through Assen, then the municipality looks at what the harvest of all the shopping bags inserted is, and whether it is worthwhile to continue this for Assen.