Recycling in the Netherlands

Municipalities publish a yearly calendar of the pickup dates and the addresses of the waste separation and recycling stations.

There are a great number of second-hand shops (run by charity organisations) that accept goods for processing, which consists of re-use, recycling and burning it as fuel.

[11] The Dutch have a lot of experience in recycling, stimulated by lack of free grounds and significant government funding.

Although for these the money is never returned, it requires a shop owner to accept the discarded item it replaces, if handed in.

On 24 April 2020, the State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management Stientje van Veldhoven announced that plastic bottles smaller than 1L will be subject to a €0.15 deposit, starting on 1 July 2021.