I have a question whether anyone on the forum lives in Zollikerberg and can help me understand how recycling works here? I live close to the hospital and have accumulated loads of cardboard boxes and paper waiting to be recycled. I have not seen any special bins nearby. Are there any collection times and places where material for recycling should be lelf? Help please!
Thanks! It's been a bit helpful, although we don't have special bags, but stickers. Still don't know where to put the paper and cardboard but will write to my landlord to ask.
Oh, I can actually leave it on the street on the 1st of every month?
Same for any old furniture and stuff then? Now i think about it I did see a sofa on the street last month but thought someone was being dodgy with the disposal.
Yeah, I could do the funny answer, but what those above said is good. Outside for the garbage disposal. In our part of the world you need to put those trash stickers on it corresponding to the weight or size, presumably a mattress is the max category. Alternatively, you can go to one of those trash recycling centers in most towns, (same place that take old furniture, computer hardware).
phone your local council and ask them. There are heavy fines for dumping rubbish! In Bern we have to buy a sticker and attach it to the item, and the normal rubbish collection take it away, but you live in Zurich... so please start here: http://www.abfall.zh.ch/internet/bd/...fallarten.html
Thank god! it seems Richdog finally got himself his new mattress Hurrah!
I found it very amusing how you were forever cropping up in threads of people selling mattresses, I really wanted to ask why you just didn't go to Ikea when the ones people were selling were never the right type or size
In Oerlikon, the big recycling/rubbish dump is Recyclinghof Hagenholz, Hagenholzstr 110, 8050 Zurich. It's open from 7am to 5pm during the week, and 7.30am to 12pm on Saturdays.
You can get rid of everything there (furniture including mattresses, electrics, old bicycles, etc). I think Zurich residents receive some 'Entsorgungs-Coupons' in the post - 4 free coupons per year per household, each allows you to take 100kg of rubbish to the dump. I think you have to pay if you don't have a coupon, but you can probably get hold of one, maybe check out www.erz.ch
The other big one in Zurich is Recyclinghof Werdholzli.