Surrendering industrial waste

In the Netherlands, you are required to surrender industrial waste to authorised collectors or waste processors. Authorised collectors transport the waste to authorised processors. You can find the authorised collectors on the list of transporters, collectors, dealers and brokers (VIHB list) provided by the National and International Road Transport Organisation (Nationale en Internationale Wegvervoer Organisatie, NIWO).

In some cases, your industrial waste can be collected by the municipal authority, or you may take it in person to a drop-off point or waste disposal site in your municipality if it is a type of waste that is similar to household waste. Refuse collection charges are payable for this service and it should be noted that the municipal authorities are not obliged to accept these types of industrial waste.

If you dispose of waste, you must keep a record of the details of that waste.

Delivering and testing waste materials at landfill sites

If you take waste materials to a landfill site, you must provide information about the composition of the waste. This information includes:

• the source and origin of the waste;
• the process that created the waste;
• the treatment applied to the waste;
• where applicable, the hazardous properties of the waste.

Information on the leaching of the waste may be compulsory as well. This could mean that the deliverer or the landfill site manager has to test the waste.