The 4 rules to know for effective recycling

1. Dare separation

Comes a day when the yogurt or crème fraîche jar must separate from its opercule. Everyone joins the same yellow tank, but they must be dissociated so that they are both recovered in a sorting center. Same heartbreak for jars that will join glass containers: destination the yellow tank for their lid.

Also separate the medication boxes and their notices (yellow tank) aluminum plates with stamps and capsules (to be returned to pharmacies). Exception: all plastic bottles must keep their cap, screwed on the neck.

2. Keep the shapes

If you thought you were doing well by compressing plastic bottles in the yellow tank, forget this habit. They need to appear whole in the sorting center to be recognized and then sorted by optical detectors. For the same reason, it is important not to fit goblets, boxes, yogurt pots but on the contrary to separate them well in order to guarantee their final recycling.

3. Hunt false friends

All the pots, bottles and glass bottles ending their days in the glass container will be broken, melted and will be reborn in the form of new containers. But beware: do not throw your goblets, dishes, plates or broken vases. These objects with a melting temperature greater than other glass containers, they can cause dangerous weaknesses in the new manufactured bottles. Failing to be able to be deposited in a recycling center, they will join the household trash.

4. Simplify your life

All packaging is intended to reach the yellow tank, whether clean or soiled. Empty the leftovers at the compost or in the household trash, but no need to use water to clean them. As for the papers, avoid shredding them. Confidential documents passed to the crusher will be deposited in the paperwork’s paper dump. No need to remove the notebooks from the notebooks, nor the tapes and staples.