Waste sorting
Among solid waste produced in households there are recyclable materials, which could be re-used in making new products. Waste sorting helps conserve nature's resources, reduces quantities of waste which go to dumping sites, as well as reduces pollution of water and air, and helps to lower costs of waste management.
Recyclable waste can be segregated into these secondary sorts of materials - paper, plastics, and glass. For convenient segregation of waste three different types of coloured containers are used:
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Quite often people inquire what materials and to which of the above mentioned container should be dropped. Therefore we provide this simplified list of waste sorting recommendations.
Container --- | THROW ------------- | DO NOT THROW ------------ |
| Blue (paper) | Newspapers, magazines, printing paper, writing paper, different sorts of cardboard packaging. Important! TetraPak packaging (cardboard packaging for drinks) is also thrown into Blue (paper) container. | Wallpaper, tissues, greasy or oily paper, and greasy or oily cardboard. |
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Yellow (plastics) | Clean plastic PET bottles (without caps), clean plastic packaging, plastic wrap, polyethylene Important! Metal packaging (cans, tins, metal caps) is thrown into Yellow (plastic) containers. | Greasy, oily plastic packaging. |
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| Green (glass) | Glass bottles, jars, other glass containers, pieces of glass smithereens. | Porcelain, ceramics, mirrors, lighting bulbs, window glass, crystals, empty drug bottles, lamps, greasy/oily or tainted with paints glass containers. |