Best Waste Management Amsterdam Near Me

4worldlovers:
Turn your commercial food waste into positive value on-site with our innovative food waste solution. We developed an on-site containerized anaerobic digester, called a Waste Transformer. It is placed next to companies or in communities that produce food waste. Biodegradable waste, such as kitchen waste, and commercial waste is automatically turned into biogas or electricity and heat. The food waste is converted into liquid natural fertilizer ready to replace (polluting) artificial fertilizers. Modular Waste Transformers recycle from 300kg food waste per day.

Currently, food waste is at the center of many global challenges. A reduction in food waste will have a game-changing impact on natural resource depletion and degradation, national security, and climate change. Companies and municipalities have an important role to play in setting an example and lead the reduction of organic waste recycling into value.

Food waste is a solvable problem. We are the Waste Transformers and we want to inspire and support people around the world to understand the value of their food waste streams, so that our society can transition to a low-carbon economy. The Waste Transformers enable food waste producers to recycle their food waste streams into clean energy, heat and natural fertilizer. All on their own site, in an anaerobic digester aka, a Waste Transformer. It is a local multi-problem solution for hotels, malls, food production companies, harbours and municipalities.

Commercial garbage disposal is something which normally happens out of sight. It’s impersonal, and food waste can be a huge environmental polluter when landfilled, unknown to many of us. On the other hand, sustainable waste management practices are very much appreciated and supported by society and companies clients. Our modular technology gives food waste producers the power to generate value from their own food waste. Not only in terms of sustainability and financially, but also with respect to PR opportunities. Local communities that live around food waste producers can use the natural fertilizer and compost to grow local crops that can be consumed locally. Municipalities can replace the use of (polluting) artificial fertilizer by food waste based locally produced fertilizer. Pressure on landfills will be reduced and companies can show a practical solution to their waste streams as one of the biggest greenhouse gas polluters we can turn around. Compared, food waste has a much larger footprint compared to polluting plastic straws. Leading by example on-site enables businesses to show their dedication to sustainable entrepreneurship.

Our Waste Transformers are able to transform your food waste streams into value. In a way that is on-site, containerized and in a closed system (means no smell and no sound). Interested in finding out more about the options for you?


What kind of non-consumable food waste can be upcycled in an anaerobic digester, aka a Waste Transformer?


Lara tells you more in this video. From waste to value.


Based in the Netherlands, over the space of a few short years, we have managed to establish a global presence. On the right, a selection of our iconic waste management projects.

4worldlovers: Goedzak is not just a bag. Goedzak activates your inner good guy.

Unwanted (un-used) goods should be re-used as much as possible. From a social point of view, these items offer an enormous potential for positive social behaviour; sharing. Goedzak is the simplest, most sustainable and social way to get rid of these excess products.

Fill up the bag and place it in the designated spot; this can be anywhere from your local mall, to the pavement in front of your house, to your local gym, depending on the set-up in your neighbourhood. Others (neighbours, passers-by) can take whatever they find valuable from the Goedzak.

Goedzak exists in collaboration with companies and municipalities, and is an adaptable concept; the perfect implementation is always context-specific. Our studio has collaborated with the city of Amsterdam and Eindhoven, and more recently Albert Heijn. And; we're always on the lookout for new allies.

Goedzak is een laagdrempelige manier om duurzaam gedrag te stimuleren en nog bruikbare spullen met je omgeving te delen. Goedzak-projecten zijn opgezet met de gemeenten Eindhoven en Amsterdam, en op nationale schaal met Albert Heijn.

Iedereen heeft thuis nog wel wat spullen liggen die eigenlijk nooit meer worden gebruikt. Soms worden deze spullen bewaard, soms verkocht. Een enkeling brengt het naar een kringloop, maar meestal gaan deze uit de gratie gevallen producten uiteindelijk gewoon met het afval mee. Vaak kunnen deze spullen nog wel waarde hebben voor anderen. Goedzak geeft deze producten een podium, en signaleert aan voorbijgangers dat er spullen van waarde in zitten.

Design for Altruism, concepts based on multidisciplinary research on universal principles and mechanics of humankind.

Goedzak is a carrier of a sustainable message. But perhaps even more importantly; It offers a very visual stage to social deeds when street are lightened up by bright yellow bags, and your neighbours taking the time and making the effort to fill up a bag and offer their surplus stuff to the neighbourhood.

So far, we’ve set up Goedzak-projects together with the city of Eindhoven, a larger scale project with the city of Amsterdam and on a national scale with Albert Heijn. Collaborating parties ideally are; the municipality and a local second hand store, or a local non-profit initiative who benefits from the left-over products.

Goedzakken (the bags) are distributed in a specific area. With the bag people also receive information and an explanation on how to use Goedzak. People can then fill up the bag and place it outside on the pavement, no different from taking out the trash. The bright yellow colour will attract attention, while the transparent side of the bag will reveal the content without the need for rummaging through the bag. Passers-by can then take from the bag anything to their liking.

The remainder of the goods are at the end of the day collected by the second hand store (or service from the city) to be either sold or recycled. Goedzak creates a new (non)waste-stream that precedes recycling and eventually discarding, keeping the integrity of the products in tact an maximising the lifecycle.

Half knalgeel en half transparant vormt de Goedzak een podium voor deze spullen, en een podium voor het altruïstische gedrag van buurtgenoten.

Goedzak creëert een nieuwe (non-)afvalstroom die voorafgaat aan hergebruik en recycling. Dit maximaliseert de levensduur van producten, en minimaliseert de impact.

Goedzak is het resultaat van een onderzoeksproject naar hoe positief gedrag door productontwerp gestimuleerd kan worden. Met altruïstisch gedrag als uitgangspunt onderzochten we vanuit verschillende disciplines welke omstandigheden effect hebben op dit type gedrag. Goedzak is ontwikkeld uit de inzichten die uit dit onderzoek naar voren kwamen.

In samenwerking met Stichting Doen is Goedzak ingezet in Gemeente Eindhoven en Gemeente Amsterdam. Samen met Albert Heijn is Goedzak op nationale schaal ingezet.

We teamed up with Netherlands biggest retailer for a nation-wide Goedzak-campaign. More than 1 million Albert Heijn+Goedzak bags promoting selflessness and stimulating reuse of toys.

The AH + Goedzak bags are aimed at parents and kids. Encouraging them to take a good look at the toys they have lying around the house, and fill up a AH-Goedzak with toys the kids are ready to part with. The collected toys are then to be donated to less fortunate children through local initiatives chosen by the AH franchise, where the full bags can be dropped off.

In Nederland werkten we samen met Albert Heijn in een campagne rondom de Goedzak. Meer dan 1 miljoen Albert Heijn Goedzakken werden verspreid en ingezameld door heel Nederland en een deel van België.