New waste sorting obligation in Brussels Region

This obligation concerns in particular the PMD (PMD packaging includes Plastic bottles and flasks, Metal packaging and Drinks cartons) and paper-cardboard segments, which will be the subject of a communication campaign by Bruxelles Propreté and Fost Plus at the end of November.

A comprehensive 12-page sorting guide will be published in the free regional press (Vlan, Brussel Deze Week and 7Dimanche) with an important section on sorting.

Face-to-face distribution of blue bags and yellow bags together with sorting memos will be organized in problem areas. A follow-up campaign will also take place in February 2010.

Bruxelles-Propreté and Fost Plus have also developed a sorting kit composed of two bags: a two-compartment bag for PMD packaging and paper-cardboard, and a special bag for glass bottles, flasks and jars.

This sorting kit is meant to make it easier to take waste to the sorting premises in your block of flats or to bottle banks.

The kit with its explanatory memo was tested with 250 households from two social housing blocks. Following these tests, the bags were improved and 8,000 other households living in social housing accommodation will be provided with these kits in the near future.

Blue PMD bags