I concur. Sounds like we live in a completely different country. Not only that I don't know many people who actually do recycle stuff that after a week does not fit in their wee aparments or cellars, it's mostly businesses who do, but it's just a few giant piles of cardboard, boxes full of old papers, plastic bags full of shredded bits of documments, nothing is really tied, one big mess of whatever paper put together. It all gets picked up and next day all is clean.

What gets me more is the fact that there is no place to store garbage. There is no way most people I know have space for more than one compartment garbage can, but even then you have to store your own garbage where you live or in the basement, which is not suited to store municipal garbage. So unhygienic. In such a crowded area we live in, there should be communal dumpsters, containers, where we can leave it sit till it gets picked up twice a week. To have a baby and a three days old garbage sitting in one appartment makes me gag. Or having it in the basement where one stores winter fun things, shoes, jams and old baby stuff.

So, anal the system is, it does not make much sense...living with garbage? Public garbage cans very scarse so people carry their own mess in their pockets all over the town? We are a major tourist area and people litter, not having where to actually put trash. Nor many benches to sit on, but that's another thing...anyways.

Don't knock off complainers, since it takes as much energy to complain about it here, as it does to try to seemingly nonchalantly dispute their points, hahaha, so...just musing over trash. And some martini

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as a tip, when you register at your gemeinde, ask for the rubbish/recycling guide. they just gave me mine when i moved and it was around 15 pages long!

In the 1960ies, 70ies, 80ies, into the 90ies, you COULD include cardboard with the paper. It is the "modern world" which no longer allows it. And until the late 1960ies you anyway threw away whatever

You are correct, and the thing is that those who want to "do their dirty deed and run" will be startled when an invoice for littering follows them to their new abode. It just saves time and makes more sense to follow these minor rules. It's less frustrating. "Immaturity breeds resistance where it's least needed". Sometimes people aren't used to things running well and need to find petty excuses to spread thier misery.

Well well well "diä Wälsche" are indeed a bit on the negligent side and do NOT take things so seriously (diä nämed's nöd so gääch")

Here in the Zurich area you have containers outside where you can put your correct bags into all the time.

hmm. here there seem to be containers. but i thought they were for an apartment block across the road so didn't want to put mine in there. (probably end up outside my front door again ) might have to buy my own wheely bin to be on the safe side...

My reference was to recycling shredded paper that you said should go in with the normal waste but other parts of the world puts in with the cardboard.

Yeah, we are not obsessive compulsive. They have medication for that now.

Yes, our area has them too, but they were only installed perhaps 4 or 5 years ago after a hullaballoo from the residents because we were having to keep the smelly binbags on balconies/terraces once they were full.

I think they also got sick of foxes or other animals using them as a food source and ripping the bags to shreds for food scraps on a nightly basis.

It's a silly system. You can't even really recycle everything that is recyclable.

Okay, I have not read the whole thread, but putting paper in bags is supposedly not good for the recycling! It has something to do with the coating of the paper bags. Read for example this article from 2010:
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zuerich/...19120064?track
"Denn die Tragtaschen haben grosse Auswirkungen auf die Wiederaufbereitung des Papiers, wie Sprecherin Leta Filli sagt. «Die Taschen, egal ob vom Detailhändeler oder aus einer Boutique, sind imprägniert, was im Recyclingkreislauf grosse Probleme verursacht.» Die wasserabweisenden Stoffe würden in der Papierfaser-Masse zu Verunreinigungen führen."
(And if you look at all the comments in the article, it's a big topic for the Swiss too

And, if you really want a laugh, just read Google's English translation of that article.

Sorry, the german part says something like:
The paper bags have a big effect on the recycling of the newspapers, as Leta Filli, spokesperson from ERZ says. The bags, regardless as from a boutique or a store department are coated, which leads to problems in the recycling process. The water-repellent substances can cause pollution in the mass of paper fibres.

Btw, in the Zurich there's a free SMS-service which reminds you a day before Altpapier- or Kartonsammlung.
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/interne...ome/login.html

That's spoiling the fun, Pacino.
In the English translation we have -
"wrong bundled papers let our staff are and provided it with yellow glue"

Around here, there's a special day for recycling dead pets so, I figure if you glue some fur on 'em and tie some string on them, they'll get collected without a problem.

Shredded paper is NOT cardbox NOR is it old paper. If you put shredded paper into your cardbox thing, you risk that everything is refused

My old man's almost there then, with tufts of hair poking out of his ears and nose and his eyebrows now seem to be long enough to comb.
I no longer look at the rest of him

You have demonstrated my point beautifully.

Wow. Just read through this whole thread about paper recycling. Very interesting. Lets see. We have some contributors who admit they dont know the rules because no one has told them or perhaps (my own assumption) because the rules/fineprint are/is not in English, like most things in Swiss, and some who have run out of cheese and others who have taken to snorting alchohol! Really funny bunch - is it only like this in English minds or are some contributors really not English and are just practising on the rest of us?

Moral of the story: "If you care about the environment and don`t toss everything in a plastic packet use a piece of organic string and tie your pieces of paper in a damn pile so it`s easier to recycle" - Oder?