Brussels is a dirty city today: from discarded cans and plastic bottles to mountains of rubbish bags waiting on the street for the bin lorry. Brussels has a cleanliness problem.
Vooruit.brussels therefore has two demands:
- Invest in underground containers in Brussels. In other major cities, the principle has long existed: Antwerp, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Lisbon… and it only has advantages.
Reads here our full position on underground containers. - Introduce a deposit on plastic bottles and cans, as 35 percent of litter in Brussels consists of plastic bottles and cans.
Reads here our full position on deposit return schemes.