Ok to recycle?

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1. I put mouthwash bottles in the same bin as detergents. Maybe I am doing it wrong…

2. Usually, if the product is not meant to be consumed by drinking it. Then it is not PET and must be recycled with other plastics.

3. There is an app called looping for infos like this

4. There should be a plastic identification symbol on the bottom of the bottle. It will have a number telling you which plastic it is.

5. Look at the bottom of the bottle if you see a triangular PET sign. If yes then PET. Otherwise regular plastic bottles, you can throw it into a plastic recycling bin at Migros or Coop

6. It either goes into the collection bin for plastic bottles other than PET (i.e. NOT the yellow-blue one) or general waste if no such collection is available.

7. It will be burnt like the general waste, no need to sort it: https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/waste/guide-to-waste-a-z/plastics.html

8. My local déchetterie has a specific area for recycling plastics that are not PET drink bottles / not Milk bottles. However, this can only be done at the déchetterie (which is 10km outside of the town and can only be reached by automobile).

   The normal recycling spots in town do not have a bin for these odd plastics.

   This in a town run by the Greens, they do nothing for the environment really, it is all lip-service.

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