Brussels residents are obliged to sort food waste on 1 May (Brussels)
In order to achieve the ambition to send 35 percent less waste to the production kiln by 2030, Minister of the Environment Alain Maron is switching up a gear in the separation of waste. For example, from 1 May 2023 it will be mandatory to put food waste in the orange bag or container and all plastic packaging in the blue P+MD bag. From 1 January there will be flows for mattresses, metal, wood, plastic foil, rubble and textiles. For example, he announced an event in the incinerator.
Maron pointed out that last year half a million tons of unsorted waste was incinerated in the Brussels kiln. This released the CO2 equivalent of 145,000 cars. It is clear to the minister that the volume of residual waste must be reduced. He has taken care, among other things, to the waste, which today makes up 40 percent of the white bag. On May 1, 2023, food waste may no longer be put in the white bag, but must be put in the orange bag or container. small orange containers will be distributed en masse.
In addition, from 1 May, all plastic packaging waste will also be banned in the white bag. This must then be mandatory in the blue P+MD bag.
From 1 January 2023, there will also be new waste streams for mattresses, metal, wood, plastic foil, rubble and textiles. Sorting textiles will be mandatory from 2025.
Due to the minimal purchase of waste in the white, these bags will be purchased in ten municipalities from 1 May 2023. These are Auderghem, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels-City (only on the territory of Haren and Neder-Over-Heembeek), Evere, Ganshoren, Jette, Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and Sint-Pieters – Woluwe. These municipalities are specific because of their lower overall density and also because waste sorting is generally well advanced.