Where to throw cardboard boxes after milk? Almost half of people segregates tetrapaki incorrectly

According to the principles of a uniform waste organization system, there is currently a division into 5 factions: Yellow basket (metals and plastics), blue basket (paper), green basket (glass), brown basket (bio waste) and black (mixed waste). And although the segregation of garbage in our country has been mandatory for several years, waste such as milk cartons raise some doubts. According to research conducted by SW Research at the request of the Prokarton Foundation, only 58 percent of people know how to get rid of them correctly.

Milk cartons – what should you do with such waste?

As we learn from the portal our rubbish, milk cartons are an example of multi -material packaging, i.e. made of at least two different materials. Have an inner coating of foil and polyethylene, Therefore, throw them into metals and plastics containers, which are yellow. Earlier, we must empty and crush them so that they take up as little space as possible. It is worth adding that the same principle applies to juice cartons.

What other waste will we throw into yellow containers?

For yellow containers for metals and plastics, we should also throw, among others: aluminum drink cans, plastic bags and bags, plastic bottles and packaging, plastic and metal caps for bottles, jars and other containers, as well as packaging after economic chemistry and after some cosmetics.

In the latter case, a large part of products, especially natural ones, have glass packaging. That is why we throw such cosmetics into green containers. Both in the case of glass packaging and those of plastic, we must remember about some important issue. – We squeeze creams, balms and other cosmetics so that the packaging is empty before throwing away. On the other hand, the empty packaging is thrown into the glass or plastics accordingly – In an interview with us, Monika Michalska, an expert associated with the junk industry.