Water, energy, and waste

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Cleaning licence for a cleaning ship

Do you clean vessels with a cleaning ship? For instance, you clean a ship that contains or has contained dangerous or hazardous substances. In the Netherlands, you may need a cleaning licence from the...

Collecting and processing car tyres

Do you produce or import car tyres? You must keep to the rules for the collection and processing of used car tyres. As a manufacturer or importer, you are responsible for the tyres until and including...

Collecting batteries and accumulators

Do you produce, import, or sell (products containing) batteries or accumulators in the Netherlands? Your business may have extended producer responsibility. This means you are responsible for managing...

Contribute to cleaning up plastic litter

Do you produce disposable plastic products? You must contribute financially to help clean up litter. You also have to encourage consumers to dispose of plastic waste correctly, and not to litter. This...

Environment and planning permit for environmentally harmful activities

A company may carry out more than 1 environmentally harmful activity (in Dutch). For each of these activities, you need an environment and planning permit, or you must submit a notification. The...

Exemption from the Environmental Management Act

Examples of for which you need an environmental exemption are: hand over industrial waste to someone without a permit dispose of waste water or waste materials without meeting the conditions dumping...

Importing and exporting waste materials (EVOA)

Do you want to export or import waste, or transport it through an EU Member State? You must observe the European Waste Shipment Regulation (EWSR, or in Dutch, EVOA). The EWSR also applies if you want...

Packaging waste management contribution

Are you a producer or importer of packaging material? And do you bring more than 50,000 kilograms of packaging material onto the Dutch market? Or do remove more than 50,000 kilograms of packaging...

PCB disposal

In the Netherlands, if you want to dispose of equipment containing PCBs (polychlorobiphenyls) in a commercial capacity, you must do so in a safe manner. You are also obliged to keep a register. What...

Permit to collect used oil, hazardous small household waste, and ship's waste

Do you collect used oil, hazardous small household waste, or ship's waste in the Netherlands? Then you will need a waste collection permit from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management...

Processing hospital waste

Do you process hospital waste? You must do so with certified decontamination equipment. What is hospital waste? Hospital waste is waste from both human and animal healthcare and from research done in,...

Registration and notification of (hazardous) industrial waste

In the Netherlands, you must keep a waste record (afvalstoffenregistratie) if you remove, transport, treat, or process industrial waste. Or if you act as a dealer or broker of waste. In some cases,...

Registration of waste transporters, collectors, dealers, and brokers (VIHB)

Do you act as a collector, carrier, dealer, or broker of industrial or hazardous waste in the Netherlands? You must have a VIHB registration (VIHB number). You will then be included in the national...

Rules for dumping sites

The information in this article may change after 1 January 2024 Some of the information on this page may change after the Environment and Planning Act comes into effect on 1 January 2024. It will be...

Rules for plastic cups and containers (disposable plastic)

Do you sell food and drinks or do you offer food and drinks in disposable plastic cups and containers (single-use plastics)? Then the following rules apply: Your customers must pay for disposable...

Rules on combustion plants

Does your company have a combustion plant? Or are you having a combustion plant installed? If so, you must comply with the rules for air emissions, measurements, inspections, and maintenance. These...

Surrendering industrial waste

In the Netherlands, you must surrender industrial waste to authorised collectors or authorised waste processors. Authorised collectors transport the waste to authorised processors. You can find the...

Using a mobile crusher

A mobile crusher is a machine with which you can make construction and demolition waste smaller. This includes excavators and shovels for transporting debris and granulate. And the screens that...

Waste tax (landfill tax)

Do you own or operate a waste processing plant with a landfill site, or a waste incineration plant? Or do you export waste to a foreign landfill site or incineration plant? You must pay waste...

Working with building materials, soil, and dredging spoil

Are you going to work with building materials, soil, or dredging spoil? For example, because you are working on a housing development site, noise barrier, or recreational area? These activities may be...

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