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Do you pride yourself on having a whole set of baskets, boxes and bags at home where you carefully sort the waste? And do you know that some materials deceive the body and are not what you think? So you put things in a blue, white, green, or yellow container that definitely don't belong there.
As a nation, we have literally fallen for recycling. We are the busiest in Central Europe. Most often in the home we divide the waste into large bags, with which we then head to the colored containers. But despite all the enlightenment, most people still let some materials be a mistake. They're not what we think they are. The biggest challenge is paper, or more precisely what we think it is. We have for you the six most common mistakes that are made between us.
Mistake No. 1: We put the egg plato in paper
When I tried to explain to a colleague that there wasn't all the paper that looked like that, she thought at first I was making fun of her. The most common mistake in recycling is that we put toilet paper handles or paper towels and egg cartons in the blue container. They are no longer useless because they are made of recycled paper several times and can no longer be used. A thread of paper can be recycled five to seven times. Then it's so short, you can't make paper out of it again. So put the eggs' rugs and platas in regular waste.
Mistake No. 2: Polystyrene is not plastic
If you bring chinese in a box and go, where do you put the packaging? Most people put it in regular mixed waste, and that's a mistake. Like all possible reinforcements and pads in electronics boxes, the polystyrene food box belongs to a yellow container. The only exception is the boards that were used as insulation on the walls. When there are remnants of plaster or glue on them, they put there what construction waste.
Mistake No. 3: All plastic bottles belong in a yellow container
It's a little, very noisy ritual that a lot of households have. The empty plastic bottle is squeezed, rolled up, sealed and put in a bag as much as possible. This is then occasionally dumped in a yellow plastic container. But it's not that simple. Even if the bottle is plastic, it is often not allowed there. Why? Because there was something in it that could destroy an entire container. Only clean or very low-polluted items belong to sorted waste. The worst are the oil bottles, which you would have to carefully wash off with warm water and detergent. Otherwise, it belongs in a regular dumpster.
Mistake No. 4: Spray wrappers must be put in a dustbin
Every time you use shampoo, cream or shower gel at home, you throw the plastic wrapper immediately in the trash, and then in a classic garbage can. But most packages from ordinary cosmetics can after using up the contents in a yellow plastic container. When they are soiled, such as mascara, they belong in a regular garbage can. Sprays are an exception. There you can sort plastic lids, others do not even belong in a regular garbage can. A lot depends on what the contents of the package were. Do you have any idea? All the necessary information can be found on the package. Take the dangerous to the collection point.
Mistake No. 5: Where to throw a paper handkerchief? In the paper!
And there's that messy paper again. If the paper handkerchief is clean, maybe you dropped it, or it just hung around, in a blue container. Not when it's used. Does that seem absurd to you? But no, there's an iron logic to it. Only clean paper belongs to the recycling paper. As a rule, it must not come wet, dirty or greasy. Interesting from this point of view is the popular bubbly envelope. In a perfect world, you should cut it, rip out bubbles and put plastic to plastic and paper to paper. If you don't have time, throw the envelope all over the paper and the line operator can handle it.
Mistake No. 6: Broken mug's glass
When sorting glass, you can choose whether it is clear, and it belongs in a white container, or colored. The container is green for that. In addition to clean bottles in them, the place also has glass from windows and doors. But broken mirror glass is not. A plated layer would spoil further melting. You can't even recycle a broken favorite ceramic or porcelain mug. It's not glass, too. They should go to the dumpster.