-Yellow in Back--Clothes Recyling-Brown Bin on Right side--Different types of Paper
-Blue in Front--Plastic Bottles Luft=Air -as in take air out of bottles and caps on.
-Small Gray on Left--Batteries
The Swiss attach a lot of importance to recycling. Citizens are encouraged to recycle as much as possible. In many cantons (counties) households pay according to the how much garbage they put out for the garbage man to collect. You have to use specific garbage bags for your particular city, and of course you have to pay for these bags.(there not cheap) This acts as an incentive to recycle anything that isn't garbage. With many plastic bottles you can get money (.25 to 1.15 SFr) back for bringing them into the special recycling machine, usually located in the grocery store.
Impressive Numbers: The Swiss are champion recyclers. In 2003, 47% of all urban waste was recycled - a new Swiss record. They recycled 70% of paper (which all have to be tied up with twine before it can be put out), 95% of glass (which has to be driven to a local center then separated by color, 71% of plastic bottles (which have to be squished down), 85-90% of aluminum cans and 75% of tin cans(which all have to be brought to the recycling center and put through a medal squishing machine).
Above: Can Crusher
Right:Garbage Bags
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This is really cool, thanks for the personal story and information...makes me think of how little we do as a society!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a cool post! I think that would be amazing if we took some of those tips into play. Great job!
ReplyDeleteVery cool, I wish we had recycling like that here in the US, there's no reason it can't be like that! Good Post, Derek=)
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