0.5 m^3 is a LOT. A medium sized removal box (the sort of thing you pack your kitchen implements, books, wine, CDs etc into when you move) has a capacity of 0.043 m^3, so half a cubic metre is equivalent to filling nearly 12 of these removal boxes.

Or if your pile of cardboard is a metre high by a metre wide and half a metre deep, there's your 0.5 m^3.

Thanks for the maths bit. I especially appreciated the '0.5 m ^3 is a LOT'. Now that's the sort of explanation I like.

Back to the bundles. If you are not tying the stuff up nicely, you're not playing the game.

Didn't you realise? It's not the newspaper and the cardboard that they are collecting at all. They want the string!

Hi all!

I posed myself the same question and after reading the whole 4-pages-thread I have understood that in Zch the plastic containers/packages of meat, pasta...go directly to the Zurich sack.

But then, ...what is the point of having two little containers at Migros were the clients are supposed to put packages (i) made out of carton and (ii) plastic?

When I saw them I said to myself...ok. this is the place where I can recycle food containers (conmon sense, I suppose). Then, I went to my place and for a week I filled a bin bag with such cartons, plastics (you know: what you get with the pasta, meat, bread, whatever). After a few days I went to Migros and I was told that what I was doing was forbidden. They told me: "You can only recycle packages when you have just bought the product. Which means, it is forbidden to bring it back from your house."

Please can someone explain to me what is the logical reason that explains such rule? Why isn't there an alternative place to recycle such packages, provided they are recycled when thrown at Migros...and not when you arrive at home...

Apart from the above... in Zurich, where can I recycle my wood iron board? and hard plastic?

Thanks a lot.

Thanks, finally figured out why the Migros guy always yelled at me. It is ridiculous. So, if you buy a packet of meat, you would have to remove it from the container when you pass the cashier and then recycle it?

The point is that you can refuse to pay to bin excessive packaging by leaving it at the shop so instead, the shop pays to get rid of it.

The shop may, in future, think more carefully about how they package their products to save itself money.

If people are worried about necessary packaging, such as with pre-packaged raw meat, they should purchase it from the butcher's counter or from a butcher instead where they'll only get a thin plastic bag to throw away.

It makes sense to me.

Here, paper products (of any kind) go into the paper dumpster, glass in the glass dumpster, metal into the metal dumpster, pet into the pet dumpster, and garbage into the garbage dumpster (no special bags required).

Of course, some people just put everything into the garbage dumpster and don't bother to separate.

So much easier.

Tom

Yes, makes sense after you're able to rinse the container that had the meat etc in it, but to recycle it right after you bought it makes no sense to me. I don't see the big deal about dropping off rinsed containers before you start shopping.