Tidiness, general police rules

It is forbidden to soil (art. 76 RGP) :

• any item of public utility ;
• any place of the public highway and any ground located in edge of this one, such as the zones of retreat ;
• galleries and passages, established on private place, accessible to the public.

Public tidiness tax

"We chose to live in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in a clean municipality and we make an effort to keep it so in the every day life." This can only be achieved with a minimum of good citizenship by each one. It is thus each one's duty to try not to dirty and vandalize the collective good. Therefore, we will throw away our small waste in public baskets, we will be responsible for stains of our dog(s), we will put on the street our bags or containers at the authorised days and hours. Those who would be negligent will have to pay a tax fixed by the regulations. The taxes are fixed as follows :

Amount of the taxes :

• Surrender of bags or containers intended for the ordinary collection but with dimensions not authorised for the presentation of the rubbish. Their weight is lower or equal to 18 kg: 24,80 EUR per bag or container ;
• Surrender of bags or containers, objects and waste not intended for the ordinary collection: 74,40 EUR per cubic meter or fraction of cubic meter ;
• Dirty mark by a person, the animal under his/her guard: 37,20 EUR per act ;
• Dirty mark in places where the presence of a person or animal is prohibited by police rules : 74,40 EUR per act ;
• Surrender of all small waste on the public highway: 37,20 EUR per act ;
• Removal of posters, self-adhesive small posters, etc. ..affixed at unauthorized places for this purpose: 37,20 EUR per poster ;
• Removal of graffiti: 74,40 EUR per cubic meter or fraction of square meter.
• Cleaning of the public places after the markets and the flea markets, when waste remain or when participants do not sweep before or after the event, is prescribed or at the beginning of those, to prevent a mechanised cleaning: 148,70 EUR per act.

Rubbish collection

Woluwe-Saint-Pierre benefits from waste collection system of carried out by the Regional Agency for Tidiness "Brussels-Propreté".

This collection is carried out twice a week :

1. The collection of the white bags :
   • In a great majority : Tuesday and Friday morning
   • Monday and Thursday evening for : Boulevard Brand Whitlock; Avenue de Broqueville; Avenue de Hinnisdael; Place Dumon; Avenue Alfred Madoux; Avenue Orban; Boulevard Saint-Michel; Boulevard du Souverain; Avenue de Tervueren; Avenue de Wezembeek; Boulevard de la Woluwe.
2. The selective collection of blue and yellow bags (see above) is carried out ont the first day of collection of the white bags.

For buildings with appartments :

For buildings with a sufficient number of inhabitants, the Regional Agency Brussels-Propreté places for free containers in place of blue and yellow bags as well as for glass. Containers for non-sorted waste are also available, but they are not free.

For the dustmen of the Agency Brussels-Propreté, pay attention to the fact that :

• bags are well closed
• bags do not contain objects that can injure the dustmen
• bags to be evacuated are not overloaded(max. 18 kg). Do not forget that the dustmen have to collect several hundreds of bags daily.

If you want more information concerning the Regional Agency for Tidiness, do not hesitate to call 0800/981.81 (free number). You can also consult its website : http://www.bruxelles-proprete.be

When do you have to put the rubbish on the street ? (to avoid fines)

After 6.00 pm the day before the waste are collected;
Between 5.00 pm and 6.00 pm the day that the waste are collected if the waste are collected in the evening.

Collection of white bags

The non-sorted rubbish can be thrown in white bags. These white bags can be bought in all the stores of the municipality.

Do not put in white bags :

• Pointed objects, cutting objects, bricks, chemical waste.
• Tires, asbestos and other waste that require the intervention of an approved dustman.

Selective collection - Blue and yellow bags

YELLOW BAGS

What can be thrown away in yellow bags ? Paper and cardboard i.e.

Newspapers, magazines, folders, envelopes, books, packing out of paperboard and telephone directories to be recycled. These bags are on sale in some stores of the municipality such as grocery stores and small stores of the district. The price is 1,71 EUR/roller (18 yellow bags).

Do not throw away in yellow bags :

Soiled fatty or soiled papers, plasticised papers, carbon paper, stickers and wallpaper. These are to be thrown in white bags.

The drink cardboards are thrown in blue bags.

BLUE BAGS

What can be thrown away in blue bags ?

Food packing

Packing known as "food" (plastic bottles for food, cans, drink cardboards, lids, packing of cosmetics as shampoo can be put in blue bags to be recycled.

These bags are on sale in some stores of the municipality such as grocery stores and the small stores of the district. The price is 1,71 EUR/roller (14 blue bags).

Do not throw away in blue bags :

Dirty bottles having contained lubricating substances or toxic products. For this type of waste you have to go a place of collection for small chemical waste ("Green Corners")

Glass bins

Bottles, jars and other flasks out of glass intended to contain foodstuffs can be thrown away in the containers (known as glass "bubbles"). This type of waste can also be thrown away, in small quantity, in the blue bags.

Sites of the glass bubbles in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre :

• Rue Marcel BUTS straat (Espace vert/ groene perk)
  
• Rue du Collège Saint-Michel / Sint-Michielskollegelstraat
  
• Rue Pierre DE COCK straat
  
• Avenue des Camelias /Kamelialaan
  
• Parvis des Franciscains / Franciskanenvoorplein
  
• Avenue des Frères Legrain /gebroeders Legrainlaan
  
• Avenue des Franciscains /Franciskanenlaan
  
• Avenue des Traquets /zwartekeeltjeslaan
  
• Rue de Leybeek straat
  
• Chemin du Putdael Putdaelweg
  
• Place du White Star plein
  
• Avenue Edmond Parmentier laan
  
• Val des Seigneurs (déchetterie communale) /Herendal (containerspark)
  
• Avenue de la Perspective / Perpestieflaan
  
• Chaussée de Stockel (cimetière) /Stokkelsesteenweg (kerkof
  
• Rue de L’église / kerkstraat
  
• Avenue Baron Albert d ’Huart laan
  
• Avenue des Grands Prix / Grote prijzenlaan
  
• Rue Konkel straat
  
• Parvis Ste-Alix /Ste-Aleidis voorplein
  
• Place de l’Orée / Bosrandplein
  

Caution: When you throw away your containers in these bins, do not forget to remove the lids (in order to put them in the blue bags) and the tops.

Caution : The surroundings of the glass bubbles are not dumps.

Do not throw away in the glass bins :

Mirrors, bulbs, pyrex, porcelains, earthenwares, sandstones or terra cottas, flat glasses (panes) crockeries, crystals, stoneware or terra cotta pitchers, fluorescent tubes ("neons").

Caution: Do not forget that many bottles are returnable and should be brought back to the store. It is often cheaper and better for the environment to buy products in returnable bottles.

In order to find returnable bottles in stores, look for the mention "CONSIGNE" in capital letters, or a particular logo.

Corks

The corks decompose very badly but can be extremely useful when they are recycled. Indeed, it takes about 25 years to carry out the first harvest on a cork oak and 10 years to have the bark renewed.

As the request for this matter is in full growth (it is an excellent heat and acoustic insulation), the producers tend to decrease this waiting period of 10 years between harvests, which harms the trees (appearance of mushrooms, etc. ). However, the corks can be recycled. Indeed, once crushed and heated, they release a resin which makes it possible to naturally weld them in plates. These plates will be used as insulation in the sector of construction (brick roofs or walls).

For these reasons, we invite you to gather all your corks and bring them to one of the manifold centres (by ex: our local dump located at the 146 Val des Seigneurs).

Metal

Food packing made of metal (cans, dishes made of aluminium ...) can be thrown away in the blue bags. Other metal waste (washing machines, tables, chairs ...) can be thrown in our local dump.

Green corners - Small chemical rubbish

Some domestic waste can contain toxic chemical substances presenting a danger for health and environment. So they cannot be mixed with the household waste or be poured via the sink or W. C. in the sewage system.

• remainders of detergents, bleaches, ammonia, caustic sodas, scalers, waxes, aerosols, scouring powders;
• oils for frying, vegetable fats;
• old medicines;
• varnishes, solvents, paintings, dyes, adhesives, resins, rust preventives, pickling solutions, thinners, stain-removers;
• piles, batteries, accumulators, oils of draining, antifreezes, extinguishers;
• pesticides, insecticides, artificial fertilisers;
• products of photo laboratory, inks, photocopiers products, radiographies;
• worn syringes;
• fluorescent tubes ("neon"), economic bulbs.

There are three ways of throwing them away :

1. Green corners :
   • Local collection sites : the local dump
   • 2) Private collection sites : most of the pharmacies take again the out-of-date drugs. Some photographers accept worn piles buttons. Tradesmen taking part in the collection campaign of small chemical waste can be recognised by the logo "Green Corners"on their window.
     

   

2. The "Proxy Chimik" :

It is a white truck with "Proxy Chimik" written on it. It stays during 45 minutes at fixed days and hours in six different places of the municipality.

Schedule of the collect:

• Place Dumon - 1st Wednesday of the month : 4.00 pm - 4.45 pm
• Parvis Sainte Alix - 2nd Wednesday of the month : 4.00 pm - 4.45 pm
• Parvis église St-Paul - 2nd Wednesday of the odd monthes : 5.00 pm - 5.45 pm
• Place de l'Orée - 2nd Wednesday of the even monthes : 5.00 pm - 5.45 pm
• City Hall - 2nd Wednesday of the month : 6.00 pm - 6.45 pm
• Parvis des Franciscains - 3rd Wednesday of the month : 6.00 pm - 6.45 pm

Cumbersome incinerable items

The cumbersome incinerable items can be :

1. collected at home by the Regional Agency Brussels-Propreté (free phone number : 0800/981.81)
   
2. thrown away :

• at the local dump ;
  
• at the regional dump (rue du Rupel by the incerator of Brussels in Neder-Over-Hembeek) .

Construction waste

Construction waste (limited to the brickbats and rubble) can be thrown away (subject to payment) at the local dump.

Green waste (grass, leafs, branches)

We offer you two ways of throwing away your garden waste (also called "green waste") :

1. The local dump
2. The collection of branches at home.
   The municipality collects branches as a result of a normal maintenance of the garden (free of charge).
   Branches must be bound in bundles.
   Small waste of gardens, grass and sheets through the new green bags.
   Waste must be put on the sidewalk before 2.00 pm the day that the waste are collected.
   Green bags are available in grocery stores of the municipality at the price of 1,73 EUR for 9 bags.
   Dates and hours for collection of branches are regularly published in the municipal newspaper "Wolu Mags".

Collection from April to begin November on Sunday. Green waste will be collected again in April 2012.

Clothing

Containers for clothing are located in various places (mainly close to churches).

The local dump

Since March 1st, 2000, the municipality has a very new local dechettery located at the municipal store. Access is reserved to the inhabitants of the municipality on presentation of their indentity card. The objective is to promote, on a great scale, the recycling of materials by offering all the sorting guarantees, within the framework of the waste plan 1998-2002.

Address :
Val des Seigneurs, 146 (quartier de Stockel)
02/773.07.19

Opening hours :

Please come at least 15 minutes before closure.

Closing dates :

- 07/04/2012

- 01/05/2012

- 17/05/2012

- 19/05/2012

- 26/05/2012

- 21/07/2012

- 15/08/2012

- 01/11/2012

- 03/11/2012

- 10/11/2012

- 25/12/2012

- 26/12/2012

Accepted kinds of waste :
Metal waste, incinerable cumbersome waste, green waste (grass, branches, leaves), brickbats, chemical waste, worn oils, paperboards and papers.

Fees of the dump for the private individuals (physical people) of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre :