For CHF19.90 per month paid 6 months in advance, werecycle.ch will collect all sorts of rubbish on a monthly or twice a month service of up to 4 x 35litre bags they supply.
Householders already pay an annual fee plus every bag costs (bag or stickers). I cram a 35litre bag for normal collection every two weeks. All electric/electronic items have a recycling fee so these items are returned to the retailer.
We have a bottle and battery bank, Supermarkets take PET bottles. Dangerous stuff is taken free of charge by our council twice a year and we have a very well ordered rubbish “dump” for polystyrene etc. They charge a couple of francs a couple of times a year.
Why would anyone pay CHF19.90 a month for another service? Some of our neighbours do though!
What? It’s a bit like doing your own washing and then using a laundry service. Or cutting your own lawn, then getting a company in to cut it again, Or shopping your food, cooking it then getting a delivered meal.
You woudn’t do both. But this rubbish system does exactly that and users pay twice over…
Sometimes I use one my trusty little friend to bring the bag to the underground container in the street. Otherwise, the bag would explode. So, the dragging issue is real.
The last one is real too. A broken clothes drying rack was almost a year in my cellar. Then I bought a 5L beer keg. I was surprised when I found I could not fit it on the steel recycling box. After the 2nd beer keg, I finally drove to the recycling point where I could dispose of the drying rack and the beer kegs. But, almost a year…and I think twice before buying another 5L beer keg.
I laughed at the queuing at the recycling place. It’s as crowded as a church. It’s fine, it’s marketing.
Our déchetterie is open for 2 hours on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 17-19 and 3 hours Saturday morning 09-12. It is shared by 5 communes. Yes there can be queues.
Our recycling is stored, in anticipation, in 4 or 5 different spots in the house. It would be nice to put everything in one spot.
such services sometimes makes sense, it all depends where you’re living. Usually there’s a collection point in a walking distance but I’ve been living in a place where the closest point where I could drop anything but the taxed bag was ~2km away. I get it’s fine if you have car but in that place there was no mobility parking nearby, so would you pay 20chf/m or much more for having an utility car to drive to the trash collection?
I can do that too but the crushable stuff we have is non recyclable.
I try not to buy stuff in plastic containers but hubby is not so fussy so I have to resort to cutting them up into small pieces before putting them in the bin.
I try not to have more than one 35l bag per week for our three adult household.
