in every town or city, they have a recycling station. This is where you throw away your glass bottles and cans. Somewhere like Denner or Coop accepts your 'Pet' bottles for recycling like your bottled water, rivella et. al. Then every second saturday, depending on where you live, they will have signs for the cardboard, paper or paper products for pickup. Have it ready by then. You can ask city hall for Entsorgungsamt brochure. That is where they have all the info about trash and recycling. Such as, if you live in st. gallen, they have this website www.abfall-sg.ch as well.