Ich lebe seit einem Jahrzehnt immer wieder in Bern. Ich lebte mit einem schweizerdeutschen Partner und in einigen WGs zusammen. Ich habe noch nie jemanden gesehen, der etwas anderes als blaue Säcke als Mülleimer verwendet.
Bin ich der Einzige, der sowohl die Recyclingbeutel als auch die blauen verwendet?
Soll ich einfach wieder alles in die blauen Tüten stopfen?
Ich versuche nur, ein guter Bürger zu sein……
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Von swissyfit
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The right one is for plastic, left looks like a regular trash bag for everything that isnt recycled
The blue bag is basically the « anything else » bag, whereas the recycling bag is for recycling different types of plastics. While it’s technically not obligatory, you’re supposed to dispose of paper, PET bottles, metals, organic waste, etc separately, but some people unfortunately just put anything in the same trash bag.
So if you want to be a « good citizen » separate your waste. If you don’t care, put everything in the blue bag.
It appears that the yellow bag is the analogue to Germany’s yellow bag/bin, i.e. an attempt to separate theoretically salvageable compounds from waste which is indeed only good for thermal combustion anymore.
To which degree the salvaged compounds are indeed reintroduced into the industrial process and not just fed to thermal combustion anyway is another story.
Maybe somebody could give some insight to what degree there are actual industrial customers who do or are at least interested to supplement their material flows with salvaged compounds.
As always: plastic recycling is a scam. Priority should be reduce, reuse, recycle.
Next point: trash bags are extremly cheap in Zurich (compared to other places in Switzerland) so a recybag is about the same price (35l) or even a bit more expensive (17l).
They also can’t recylce much of what you put in the bag.
HOWEVER, I believe it’s still worth it because they can recycle some parts and convert the rest to energy (maybe even more efficent). For example you can put tetra paks in the recybag, whose alluminium is extracted and the rest is used as pellets in french coal plants.