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Comment by Acinyx

They are more and more working on doing the separation at the garbage company though instead of at the source. Generally the reason for this that that consumers aren't very consistent in the separation and a few mistakes makes the whole stream worthless if they don't implement separation after collection.

Two examples of large municipalities going this route:

* https://www.amsterdam.nl/afval-en-hergebruik/plastic-scheidi...

* https://www.almere.nl/wonen/afval/afval-scheiden/nascheiden

parent Acinyx 4 years ago

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