green guide for Maastricht
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environmental information for the people of Maastricht
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This guide provides you with relevant information for an
environmental aware (student) life. It answers questions like «How can
I dispose of chemical waste?», «Where can I buy bio-organic
groceries?», «What to do with my old tape deck?» and so
on.
This page was the basis of the Organic
and the 2nd-hand
page in Wikimaas, the DIY guide to Maastricht.
Due to their collaborative nature, the wikimaas-content is likely to be more
accurate than this UMP-page. If you want to add something to these pages, do
it yourself in Wikimaas, or contact us.
second hand
shops
Maastricht
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Kleding en Boekenhal - Books and clothing, Brusselsestraat 18,
open Mon-Sat from10 am.
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Regin's Kringloop - Collects free of charge usable items at your place.
From cutlery till furniture. Tongerseweg 57, Open tue-sat. 11h-18h.
call 043-3261679 or 06-19742839.
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The secondhand center (kringloopwinkel) is an institution that
deals with all kinds of reusable stuff like furniture, electric
equipment, clothes, and household articles. You can both purchase
articles for a student-friendly price and also hand in used items which
are in an acceptable state. It is located at Abdissenweg 1 and its business hours are Tuesday through
Saturday from 10:00 to 17:00.
The kringloopwinkel even comes to your place to collect
things you want to get rid of. To arrange for this service, call
362.08.58.
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There are three Emmaus locations in Maastricht. They collect
'prosperity-leftovers' (welvaarts resten), clean them, fix them
and resell them. You can give them a call if you want to get rid of eg.
some large piece of furniture.
They are situated at:
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Bric-á-Brac, Hoogbrugstraat - phone 325.50.81
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Bric-á-Brac, Brusselsestraat 5 - phone 321.62.67
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In the "Missiewinkel" they also sell a large amount of second
hand clothing, cutlery, etc.
It is situated on Volksplein 32. Tel.: 321.19.81
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Heyoka, Koestraat
12, open; Wed-Thu-Fri, 15-18h. A big
mystery. Phone: 06-5468.8956.
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Mattie's
Kringloopwinkel. This is a store run by friendly people. Like
the Kringloopcentrum they resell all kinds reusable articles. Every
month they have an action like 'In November all tables for only half
the price'.
The shop is open Wednesday till Saturday. It's situated on the Glacisweg 67a - phone 325.32.66.
Check their Dutch website www.mattieskringloopwinkel.nl!
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Het Leger des Heils (Salvation Army): Fort Willemweg 75,
phone: 321.4037
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’t 2e Handsje: Kasteel Montfortstraat 28
phone: 06-304.42.093
Open: Monday till Saturday from 9h -12h and 13h -18h
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De Smalle Beurs: Frankenstraat 188 en Boschstraat 67 Two
well-assorted second hand stores which sell commodities for reasonable
prices (though some things are expensive). The owner of these stores
uses all earnings to buy houses in Maastricht in which he houses
homeless people.
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Cadence: St. Jacobstraat 7. Phone: 325.63.51. Second hand
clothes, retro-style.
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Judopa: Ambyerstraat Noord 78. Second hand furniture.
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Kringloopwinkel Witte Vrouwenveld: Frankenstraat 128. phone:
362.6316. A relatively small second hand store for people who like to
nose about. Probably the cheapest in Maastricht.
Open: Tuesday till Friday from 10h-16h and Saturdays from 12h-16h.
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Utopia: Furniture, Antique & Curiosa. Frankenstraat 205,
phone: 362.28.14 or 06-2526.7978. A small store with limited
assortment, is quite expensive. Lots of LP's.
Open: Mondays from 10h-12h, Thursdays from 14.00-17.00 and 18h-20h and
Saturdays from 10h-12h
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not really secondhand: Koopjes Centrum Maastricht: They sell,
among loads of other things, old German army goods («dump»).
Address: (moved) Bloemenweg 65, tel.: 3628886
literaturemarket
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Summer 2001, the UMP has issued a website which facilitates the
recycling of old study-books. You can place little adverts on it about
books or bundles of copies you want to buy or sell. Other people can
browse these ads, and contact you if they find what they're looking
for.
The LiteratureMarket is developed in Dutch but quite understandable
for non-Dutch as well. It is online available at http://www.studver.unimaas.nl/ump/markt
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Far from effective of having multiple of these sites, and ours was
there first, but for completeness sake, also online: studieboekenlimburg.nl and eloquent.nl
shopping
bio-organic products (EKO)
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There is a weekly organic
market on Thursdays from 14h till 19h in the Wycker
Brugstraat
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There are a couple of shops in Maastricht that offer ecologically sound
food, cosmetics etcetera:
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On the westside of the river:
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On the eastside of the river:
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De Kruiderij, Grote Staat 44
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Smulders Reformhuis, Tongerseplein
20
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De Natuurwinkel, Brusselsestraat 22a
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Reformhuis de Erica, Nieuwstraat
7
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De Greunte Tuut, Frederikbastion
68
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La Yapa, T.
Schaepkensstraat11
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Estafette, Rechtstraat 48 a
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Reformhuis Schreurs, Wycker
Brugstraat 22
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Schiepers, Dorpstraat 39
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Meat and Eggs from free-range animals can be recognized by the
registered label scharrel...
A butcher offering
scharrelvlees (which does not equal organic) is:
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Willems, Brusselsestraat 37 and Bosschstraat 65
It is possible to have a
vegetable subscription. When you take
one, a farmer from Aachen will deliver every week a selection of
organic and local produced fruit, vegetables, and - if you wish - even
meat and cheese, near to your house.
More information you can find on
www.bioland-gauchel.de Organic
restaurants: Often there are squats in Maastricht which host an «eetcafé»
(pubs, serving organic and/or vegan food). If you're interested in having dinner
there, you can give us a message. We might know the current
addresses, and the way to make reservations (obliged).
Many
student organisations, fraternities and festivals want to have t-shirts
with their own logo. Here is a link of a company which is specialised in
organic and fairtrade shirts: http://www.boweevil.nl/
fair trade
De Wereldwinkel (World Shop) - Brusselsestraat 7, tel.
321.2213. Open Mon-Sat. Their mission is to promote social equity,
environmental protection and economic security through trade,
awareness-raising and campaigning. They have a
site.
De Kringwinkel, Boorsemstraat 2,
Maasmechelen, www.kringwinkel.com,
Open mon-fri 9h-18h and saturday 10-18h. Tel (+32)(0)89 779292. It lies
in the direction of the Sonnevijver (Rekem, B), but than a bit
further down the main road to Maasmechelen, a bit off the road on your right
hand. Delivering in Maastricht costs around 25 euro but besides that they are
really cheap ánd sjiek; The store does look much better than Kringloop
Zuyd.-
Emmaus woon-werkgemeenschap Hartelstein - Hartelstein 204, in the village of Itteren, North
of Maastricht - tel: 364.55.15 (every Saturday, 14-16h)
- Le
Chemin Vert, Rue du Mery 20, Luik/Liège/Luttich, Open mon-sat, 9
till 18h. Shop with local and organic grown things, aswell as a small cafeteria.
If you're looking to find your way, take the green road!
- La ferme de la
Strijk, Rue Donsart 20, Aubel (B) tel:
(+32)(0)87-686374 or (+32)(0)496-282929: a Walloon-organic restaurant,
some 10 km south-east of Eijsden, between Liège and Verviers. Curious
however, they serve Foie
gras (stuffed goose liver), how this relates to their organicity.
- There is an organic butcher in Moelingen (Mouland), 15 km south of
Maastricht. It is called Boucherie-charcuterie Le Gué de la Bevronne.
The address is Rue de Fouron 243. It is open on Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday, guebevronne at tiscali.be
printing
If you are looking for recycled paper for your computer printer, try
Nautilus paper, which can be purchased at a fair price in the
university's copy shops. It is a high-quality paper made of 100% de-inked
waste paper, bleached without chlorine, of almost white colour and
delivers very good results even with colour inkjet printers.
Also the LHUMP has an elaborate list of environmental friendly papers and
printer businesses.
In January 2004 the UMP has issued a guide how to print as efficiently
as possible on the University Libraries' Printers. The guide is located on
www.umpm.nl/print
copying
You can save 50% of paper by copying double-sided. Almost all machines
allow this. Some of them function fully automatic, while at others have
to put your prints upside down into the single-paper supply before
printing the backsides.
A pamphlet is available at our download-section which explains the
process of copying double sided with the Océ-machines.
There is also a tool available for making more compact prints
(Fineprint).
You should always, however, consider whether the use of paper is
necessary in the first place. After all, better than using recycled
paper or copying double-sided is avoiding the use of paper
altogether.
local trading system - Matskring
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Maastricht has its own LETS-group. LETS is an acronym for
Local Exchange Trading Group. In Maastricht they're called the
Matskring. It is affiliated with Actie Strohalm.
With the Matskring you can exchange your productivity with that of
others, without using money. Instead of money the Matskring will give
you a Mats-account, where they register all your work. With the
accumulated credit you've earned in the Matskring, you can let other
people be productive for yourself.
All work is valued equal. An hour heavy gardening equals an hour of
remaking clothing, or an hour of cooking. For one hour worked or
consumed, the Matskring transfers 12 Matzes from the consumer to the
producer's account.
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offered
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asked
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computer training
baking of an apple pie
help with writing of application-letters
car-repairs
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babysitter
doing paintjobs
vegetarian cooking lessons
graphic design
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and a whole lot more...
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There is a whole range of different tasks, which can be conducted by
Matskring-members for your benefit, and there are a lot of
possibilities for you to be productive. Anything you can think of what
can be needed by other members of the Matskring is allowed.
On the right a small selection from the former
Matskring-quarterly, de
Matsklopper from October 2000 is given.
It costs a Matskring member fl. 25,- and 48 Matzes each year to
participate. Then you will receive the Matsmagazien-quarterly, your
account will be managed, and your offers will be published in the
Matsmagazien..
You can send an email to
the matskring, or call them for more information, 325.96.63.
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More information about other LETS-groups: www.letsland.nl.
Since January 1
st 2002 it has become possible to choose your
own
power-supplier. The municipal
power company of Maastricht,
Nutsbedrijven Maastricht, complies
with these new laws and started offering
green electricity for their customers. That is because
since January 1
st customers can choose their 'flavour' of
green electricity. Next year citizens can
also buy their
grey power with the
company of their preference.
So at the moment people can only choose their green power supplier. Green power is produced using CO2 neutral
sources such as wind- and water turbines, biomass-plants, solar panels
etc*. Therefore it does not increase the greenhouse effect and climate change.
Because it is more difficult to build windmills than it is to burn
fossil fuels, green energy is more
expensive than grey. But in the
Netherlands, 'grey' energy is taxed with
the REB, the Regulating Energy Tax. This tax is not applied to
environmentally friendly produced green
energy. In effect the green electricity
in Maastricht is exactly as expensive as the not-CO2 neutral
grey energy.
The green energy offered by the
Nutsbedrijven Maastricht is generated in different ways:
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wind-turbines in the provinces of Zeeland and Flevoland
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a with biomass fueled plant at the landfill near
Bèlvédère
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small water-powered plants in the Zuid-Limburg hills
source: www.nutsmaas.nl, April 12th
2002
Note: You can buy green power at any supplier in the
Netherlands.
Recently Nutsbedrijven has been bought by Essent, so you might
consider purchasing your green electricity at other companies.
Advisable is Echte
Energie, which is run by a former Greenpeace activist. Or check www.greenprices.nl for an
independent comparison.
sign up!
To switch from
grey to
green electricity is very simple: You just have to
fill out your electricity meter-values, and sign an agreement that you
really want to switch. If you are interested, fill out your data at the
Nutsmaas website
(Dutch), and they will send you all you need to know.
If you want to know more about
green
energy in the Netherlands, you can look at the Dutch site of the ministry
of economic affairs:
www.groene-energie.nl.
*: No
nuclear energy, which is CO2-neutral as well, but we will
not go into that discussion
here.
We are setting up a small rundown of all the courses on the
Universiteit Maastricht which deal with sustainability issues. For more
information you should contact the mentioned faculty representatives.
If you know a course which should be added, let us
know.
In the spring and summer you can join the volunteers of the
CNME to work on their
Natuurtuinen. In autumn and winter sometimes there's some work
on other locations in Maastricht.
The work consist of practical work like weeding, mowing, trimming,
etc.
Most of the work will be for maintenance on the greenery for wild
plants.
New volunteers are advised to join on Thursdays, because then there are
people available who can guide you. Also the Thursdays are the most busy
days.
As a CNME volunteer you can take part on the courses the CNME organises.
Several times per year there are special workshops for you. Also you will
be invited for the yearly midsummer night walk, Christmas, etc.
When your interested, you can take up contact with Ms. Medendorp at medendorp@cnme.nl or 321.9941
More sorts of voluntary jobs you can find at www.vrijwilligerscentrale.nl/maastricht
about your household waste
On January 1
st 2001 the City of Maastricht is introducing a
new system for dealing with household waste. You will no longer pay 255
€ for waste disposal but only 142 €.
You will only be permitted to put out miscellaneous waste (restafval) in
special plastic bags (Restzakken). These will cost 1 € and will be
on sale in many Maastricht shops (check out
www.restzak.nl and click on
the "Verkooppunten Restzak" button for
addresses). If you
keep using the current grey household waste bags after January
1
st 2001, you may be fined - environmental inspectors have
instructions to carry out strict checks.
You will also need to pay to dispose of certain types of waste at waste
disposal centers (milieuparken).
sorting your waste will save you money
A household that sorts its waste effectively will need a maximum of 42
waste bags a year, and can therefore save a lot of money. That's because
42 bags cost 42 €. Add to that 142 € in waste disposal charges
and you get a total of 184 €. You will of course need to be certain
that you dispose of as little as possible in bags for miscellaneous
waste. The more you sort your household waste, the more money you'll
save.
don't buy things you'll throw away
- Cook as much food as you can eat. Don't throw it away.
- Buying less packaging will save heaps of
waste. Also, you should consider removing the superfluous packaging already
in the shop, disposing of it there. When everybody will do this, the
shop's waste-expenses will rise, and they will reconsider the needless use
of redundant commodities. More about packaging on www.svm-pact.nl
what can you sort?
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Vegetable, fruit and garden waste (GFT in Dutch) should be put in the
green waste bin. This will be collected at least once every two weeks,
free of charge. Green bins for GFT waste will also be distributed to
residents of the city centre. Please phone 043-350 5100 to order one.
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Glass, tin cans, textiles, plastic bottles, drinks cartons (for example
milk cartons), paper and cardboard can be disposed of at a recycling station
(milieuperron) free of charge. Recycling stations are located at
shopping malls, in a number of city squares, etc. There is one within
500 meters of every home in Maastricht.
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Waste paper can also be disposed of free of charge. It will be picked
up from outside your house at least once a month.
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Small-scale chemical waste (batteries, oil, paint, etc.) will be
collected free of charge twice a year from a location near where you
live. This kind of waste must never be put in the bag for miscellaneous
household waste.
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Furniture and unwanted household appliances which still work can be
collected free of charge by a recycling organization (kringloopcentrum), in other words not by the City.
You will find relevant numbers in the phone book.
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Bulky garden waste can be taken to the waste disposal centre, but twice
a year it can also be collected from your home. You will receive
details of this service at a later date
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All other waste should be taken to the waste disposal center. A charge
will be made for certain items. Bulky household waste will cost 20
guilders per cubic meter, waste in the old grey waste bags will cost
1,5 € each, car tires 2 € each, unpolluted soil and rubble
12,50 € per M3, polluted soil and rubble 90 € per
M3. Poisonous substances, such as batteries, oil, paint and
asbestos (if properly packaged) will be disposed of free of charge. You
can also dispose of official bags of miscellaneous waste free of charge
at the waste disposal centre. Maastricht's waste disposal centres are
situated in Randwyck, Beatrixhaven and under the Noorderbrug bridge.
further info or tips?
Fortunately, the UMP is not omni-present. So if you know any particulars,
which make it possible for the environmental-minded citizens of
Maastricht to make their lives more sustainable, please let us
know. We will include your findings in this guide.
ü 2005 UMP
Maastricht