When dredging port basins or navigation channels, dredged material becomes available. Usually these materials are disposed at a designated disposal area. However, materials are a natural resource and can potentially be used for a multitude of applications. This can be sand for road construction and silt for dike construction or it can be used as a fill material. When sediments are contaminated application is often restricted, but when it is covered with clean capping material it can still be applied under certain conditions. Contaminated sediments can also be stabilised using stabilising agents such as Portland cement or fly ash. In any case, the sediment characteristics should match its end use. Perhaps most elegantly these materials can be used to to maintain or increase natural aquatic and terrestrial habitats. In such way the reuse of dredged sediments provide ecosystems services such as providing flood defence, shoreline stabilisation and reinforcement, reduce erosion processes or recreational beaches nourishment and stabilisation.