Utrecht Clause Samples

Utrecht. GEMEENTE UTRECHT

Utrecht. For the City of Utrecht, the pre-existing waste management conditions were favourable to the pilot implementation. The City had been working in collecting plastic waste separately for about 10 years and has service contracts in place with companies to sort plastic waste further for the post-collection phase. In addition, the City already worked on optimising the routes and schedule for the drivers transporting plastic waste, which gave them experience on the matter.

Utrecht. The City of Utrecht implemented the first two phases of the PA (collection and transport) but, differently from Valencia and Alba Iulia, combined other types of technologies that they already had in place, with the PlastiCircle technologies. Utrecht City Council is the sole responsible for collection and transport, while sorting and reprocessing are subcontracted to private companies. During the pilot, the City executed collection using smart containers already existing in the pilot area and did not make use of the labelling system to identify the citizens due to local data protection regulations. The City collects the waste and transports it to a station run by a private company, which is responsible to handle sorting and separation. At this stage (processing/ separation), Utrecht subcontracts a private company with the obligation to recycle as much as possible. After that phase, the separated material is sent to a manufacturer (also a private company) to produce new products (reprocessing) with that recyclable material. Without the identification of participants, it was not possible to use the compensation system, so they used part of the collected plastic to manufacture products that could benefit the whole community, such as a bench placed in the neighbourhood where the pilot took place.

Utrecht. Utrecht is a city in the central Netherlands with a population of 345,080 (2017) and population density of 3,658/km2. Due to its central position within the country, it is an important transport hub for both rail and road transport. The city of Utrecht is among the best waste recyclers cities of the Netherlands. Residents can divide their waste into five types of waste (paper; glass; organic waste; plastic / cans / packing (PBP); residual waste or rest). In residential areas with low population density, the collection system is through personalised collection (D-t-D system), but in areas with high-population density, the collection system is through BB systems and CA located in different areas of the city.