Waste collections calendar

• Residual waste and vegetable, fruit, garden and food waste (gft+e) are collected from your home once a week, on Tuesday evenings.
• You can take plastic packaging, metal packaging and drink cartons (pmd) to a nearby sorting station.
• Check the MilieuApp or your waste collection calendar to see which waste is collected in your street and when.

• Gft+e waste is collected from your home once a week.
• Pmd waste and residual waste are collected from your home every 2 weeks.
• You can also take pmd waste to a nearby sorting station.
• Check the MilieuApp or your waste collection calendar to see which waste is collected in your street and when.

• Gft+e waste is collected from your home once a week.
• Pmd waste and residual waste are collected from your home every 2 weeks.
• Check the MilieuApp or your waste collection calendar to see which waste is collected in your street and when.

• Residual waste

Please use red-and-white residual waste bags. Tie them securely so our waste collection staff can pick them up at the top. Maximum weight of large bag: 7 kg. Maximum weight of small bag: 3.5 kg.

• Vegetable, fruit, garden and food waste (gft+e)

Use your green wheelie bin or caddy. You can use biodegradable bin liners if necessary (sprout or OK compost logo). Maximum weight wheelie bin 140 litres: 75 kg. Maximum weight caddy 25 litres: 7 kg.

• Plastic packaging, metal packaging and drink cartons (pmd)

Please use pmd bags. Tie them securely and tie lighter bags together.

You should take your pmd to a sorting station (milieuperron) if you live in Binnenstad. Pmd is not collected from home in this area.

• Prunings in bundles

You may place 1 or 2 bundles of pruning waste next to your green wheelie bin or caddy. Bundles should be tied with with sisal or cotton twine and should be no longer than 150 cm, no thicker than 50 cm and no heavier than 25 kg.

• Paper and cardboard

Please bundle paper and cardboard in boxes or with sisal or cotton twine. Maximum weight: 7 kg per box or bundle.

• Christmas trees

We only collect standard-sized Christmas trees, with or without roots, that are free of decorations, buckets, rood cloths, pots or stands.

• Fireworks

Please use firework bags to dispose of used fireworks. Put the bags out for collection on your first collection day for residual waste after 1 January. Free firework bags are available at the recycling centres  (milieuparken).

• Bulky waste

You can take bulky items to a recycling centre or arrange for us to collect bulky waste from your home. The call-out fee is waived once per year. See Bulky waste | Gemeente Maastricht for more details.

• Clothing, textiles and shoes

Clothing, textiles and shoes can be taken to a recycling centre (milieupark) or reuse shop. You can also use the bag you receive in your letterbox to dispose of clothing, textiles and shoes.

Please take textiles to a recycling centre (milieupark) or reuse shop. We also collect textiles from your home 4 times a year. Use standard black bin bags that you can buy from local shops.

Place your waste on the pavement in front of your home, close to the street, or at the designated collection point.

Residents of Binnenstad (inner city)

• Residual waste / gft+e: put out between 17.00 and 19.00 on collection day. Collection starts at 19.00.
• Waste paper and cardboard, textiles: put out the evening before collection day, from 19.00 to 06.00 on collection day. Collection starts at 06.00.

Residents of other neighbourhoods

• Residual waste, pmd, gft+e, textiles, waste paper and cardboard*: put out the evening before, from 19.00 to 06.00 on collection day. Collection starts at 06.00.

* In Jekerdal, waste paper and cardboard is collected on Friday evenings from 17.00.

Sorting stations

Certain types of waste can be disposed of for free at nearby sorting stations (milieuperrons), such as glass, paper, nappies, incontinence products and (if available in your area) pmd.

Recycling centres

You can also dispose of your waste at our recycling centres (milieuparken). Check the MilieuApp or Recycling centres | Gemeente Maastricht for addresses, fees and opening hours.

Kringloop Zuid 

Give reusable items a second life. Drop them off at the Kringloop Zuid reuse shop, place them in the collection container at the Het Rondeel recycling centre or book a collection at www.kringloopzuid.nl.