I’m impressed with how little garbage you generate! We use a 110l bag every week at a minimum. Usually 1x 110 and 1x 60 for a family of 5.
Disposable nappies to take space, but they get their own blue bag (from the nappy bin).
I’ve got absolutely no idea what you are putting in yours.
You do realise that glass, PET, cardboard and paper (and many other things) can be re-cycled in Switzerland?
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I just read the text in the bags from the municipality and nothing in there about a weight limit. Also read the 1-page info with the dates for carton and nothing about weight limit.
6 kg for 35K is too light, never weighted my bags but they feel like cabin luggage (10kg?)
But…there’s no weighing of individual bags. There’s an underground container collected by a huge truck with a crane. Maybe that’s the difference.
Since they added plastic (all types including PET) we cut our weekly waste by over half. It does mean separating and washing and cutting to reduce volume, but it’s free to take it to the déchetterie. This goes in a 110l black bag. The plastic cat food sachets made up a surprisingly large amount, which then results in the cat waste.
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Our cats got COVID (can’t prove it though) but at the time of COVID, they were both unwell for a bit and completely changed their eating habits. Now they only eat dried food so that’s one large empty plastic bag every few weeks to dispose off.
Apart from nappies and pet stuff, I’m still at odds to know what people are throwing away in such large quantities especially as nowadays, most stuff has minimal packaging.
Disagree completely. If anything it is getting worse.
I didn’t even realise they still sold 110l bags.
Wow! We use 2 cheap black bags of 17 l, which I then pack in one 35 l bag from Gemeinde. It is for 6-7 days for a family of 4 (with 2 teens). And I don’t use compost, so all the food rests are there as well. Otherwise it would be probably 17 l.
Definitely not. Many things that were in plastic 10 years ago are now sold mostly in cardboard.
I wish that was true.
There is still far too much stuff sold in plastic packaging, it hasn’t really improved much at all in my opinion.
To my understanding it improved up to the possible limit. Most of the dry food and other goods are packed in carton. Of course if the food is oily or wet, or should be packed hermetically (e.g. in special atmosphere) you cannot use cardboard or paper packaging. You have a choice to go to the organic supermarkets like Allnatura (will be closed soon, by the way) with your own containers to buy unpackaged food by weight, but the majority of the customers are not ready to do this.
Most probably the next step will be elimination of the free plastic bags in the section of Fruits and vegetables and replacement with the paid bio-degradable bags. The software in the weights is ready for it, they must only add price of the bag which can be done overnight.