start topical home waste industrial waste clean neighborhood about ivago my ivago Frequently Asked Questions search on map mission structure policy objectives history Numbers energy from waste plant decisions regulations vacancies Contact Start › about IVAGO › history History On June 6, 1994, the “Intercommunal Association for Waste Management in Ghent and Surroundings”, in short IVAGO, was founded as a collaboration between the city of Ghent, the municipality of Destelbergen and the private partner ECOV (at the time a partnership between VLAR, WATCO and Seghers Engineering exists today ECOV from INDAVER and SUEZ). It was the first mixed intermunicipal waste management company in Flanders! Over the past 20 years, IVAGO has shaped a future-oriented waste policy in Ghent and Destelbergen and has provided pioneering work in Flanders. A lot changed in Ghent and Destelbergen in a short time. Intensive communication and awareness campaigns easily familiarized the population with the entire renewal operation and taught the tricks of waste sorting. Well-known Gentenaars such as Koen Crucke, Jan Hoet and Gilda De Bal set a good example. In Ghent, the old iron bins disappeared to the scrap heap. The garbage collection has been thoroughly reorganized. Selective collection was the new message: organic waste, pmd, glass and paper / cardboard were now collected at home. And all that back in 1996! 'smart' waste containers IVAGO was the first to introduce the 'polluter pays' principle. 'Smart' waste containers - equipped with an electronic chip - already appeared in the streets of Ghent's peripheral municipalities and Destelbergen in 1998. In a short time, IVAGO saw a significant decrease in the amount of waste left to incinerate. New and spacious container parks were created, later converted into real recycling parks equipped with electronic measuring systems and weighbridges and aimed at recovering valuable materials and raw materials as effectively as possible. Neat city IVAGO's public cleaning service has grown from a cell with some 30 street sweepers to an army of almost 100 employees, armed with ultramodern sweepers and a systematic approach. The annual battle to clean up the Ghent Festivities Zone is a recurring success. Steam and electricity In '96, IVAGO converted the old incinerator into a high-tech incinerator adapted to the latest environmental standards. Later, a deNOx installation was built that removes harmful nitrogen oxides from the air and destroys dioxins. Today, IVAGO not only produces electricity for its own use and the public grid, but mainly supplies heat to the nearby UZ Gent via an underground steam pipeline. So many companies, so many solutions With a separate IVAGO industrial waste department, IVAGO provides tailor-made service for more than 4,000 business customers: from the grocer around the corner, through the numerous catering establishments in the city center to all branches of Ghent University. The real basis of IVAGO is of course the more than 370 employees. They are on the road in all weathers. A group of hard workers who are happy to roll up their sleeves. With your heart on your sleeve and straightforward! Like real Gentenaars. Forgot your password? new account register for: your collection calendar turns recycling park balance of collections Register on: IVAGO news and sorting tips industrial waste circular gardening collection calendar recycling parks illegal dumping reporting point circular gardening Frequently Asked Questions reporting point glass Contact Topical news schools students associations publications press home waste waste guide collection IVAGO card recycling parks thrift shops circular gardening repair cafes various services industrial waste waste guide containers recycling parks shift days useful information newsletter clean neighborhood Destelbergen Ghent about IVAGO mission structure policy objectives history Numbers energy from waste plant decisions regulations vacancies Contact my IVAGO to request © IVAGO 2018 - Proeftuinstraat 43, 9000 Ghent - Tel. 09 240 81 11 terms of use privacy policy cookie policy sitemap