"To clean up the waste from this Intro, you have to work full time with two people," say Mark Meijer and Harold Ronde, employees at Waste Management and Logistics. That is why they have asked colleagues Henk and Jeroen to bring the wheelie bins and four-wheeled containers with a box truck to the two press containers. The content is squeezed there and each press container can handle a total of twenty cubic meters of waste.

“However, that limit of waste won’t be met this year. In previous years, one container would be full halfway through the week and would be collected, emptied and returned by waste processor Renewi,” Ronde explains. He notices things getting better every year when it comes to waste. “A few years ago the intro kids were given a cardboard box per person and there were piles of waste everywhere that we had to collect with snow shovels. Colleagues were fed up with all the blue boxes. Back then, a twenty-cubic-meters container was needed for one day, although that one was not able to press its contents."

Intro waste figures from recent years

2018       5,920 kg

2017       4,860 kg

2016       5,440 kg

2014       11,780 kg

2013       9,486 kg

• Small note: Weight says nothing about volume. You can have large volume but low weight. 

The CIC continued with a good start they made last year; lunch and breakfast are packed in a crate per group. The sandwiches are cozy together in a plastic bag and there are no longer any cans of soda distributed. Instead, a water bottle has been handed out. Intro kid Stefan Robu from Romania calls the refillable bottle ‘a livesaver’. "I used it so often and it saved a lot of money as there was no need to buy water at the supermarket."