Sorting instructions

Yes

Empty and dry plastic household packaging

• Empty, clean and dry plastic packaging from households
• Plastic food packaging (e.g. yoghurt cups, butter tubs, cheese packaging and ready-meal trays)
• Detergent, shampoo, and soap packaging
• Other household packaging (e.g. plastic bottles, cans, jars, tubes, packaging for toys, tools, garden, and fishing gear etc.)
• Plastic bags and wrappers
• EPS or Styrofoam packaging

Flatten the packages, if possible. Remove caps, lids and pump parts and sort them separately. These parts are often made of different plastic than the rest of the packaging. The measure improves recycling.

No

• Mixed waste, construction waste or very dirty plastic packaging
• Any material other than plastic packaging (no cardboard, glass, metal, wood)
• Other plastic products or plastic packaging used in companies
• Packages that contain traces of dangerous substances (e.g. lighter fluids, oils, fuels, paints, chemicals, medicines)

Yes

Empty, clean, dry, flattened and packed inside one another

• Corrugated cardboard boxes
• Cartons, e.g. milk and juice cartons
• Cardboard containers for ready meals, packaging for dry products
• Cartons for dry products, e.g. cereal and biscuit packets
• Paper bags
• Pizza boxes, egg cartons
• Disposable tableware made of cardboard
• Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
• Wrapping paper, e.g. copy paper wrappings
• Cardboard carriers for beverages, e.g. six-packs and cases

Flatten cartons before sorting. When the cartons are flattened, it is possible to empty the collection containers less frequently.

Yes

• Empty, clean and dry
• Metal packaging
• Tins
• Non-deposit beverage cans
• Metal lids, caps and closures
• Aluminium trays, foil and covers
• Paint tins
• Non-pressurised aerosol cans
• Metal coffee capsules
• Pots and pans
• Cutlery, scissors and tools
• Other small metal objects (nails, screws, fittings, etc.)
• Aluminium tea light cups

Return batteries and electronic devices to their own collection points.

Yes

Empty, with caps and lids removed

• Glass bottles
• Glass jars

Rinse dirty glass packaging with cold water if necessary. It is not necessary to remove labels and bottle neck rings. Please return deposit glass bottles to reverse vending machines in shops!

No

• Healthcare packaging such as vials and ampoules
• Plastic: e.g. plastic bags and wrappings, polystyrene, bubble wrap
• Porcelain or ceramics
• Glass dishes (e.g. drinking glasses, oven dishes, coffee pots, lids for pots and pans)
• Crystal
• Opal glass (e.g. some cosmetics packaging and ornamental objects)
• Windows or mirrors
• Light bulbs or lamps

Yes

• Newspaper and magazines
• Adds
• Envelopes
• Copying paper
• Books without covers

Yes

• Food leftovers
• Fruit and vegetable peels
• Coffee grounds, tea bags
• Kitchen paper
• Plants

Absorb liquids. Pack biowaste into a paper bag.