...make life so much easier, all in one bag, incl. milk tetra pack, gets picked up from your place and voila... all gone!
Hi there, my absolute favorite is this service!
... along with CHF 20–30 out of your wallet, every month!
An absolute steal. Literally.
IIRC one of the biggest points made about TeraPak is that is can be recycled.
Until recently, the local recycling centre had a separate "free" bin for this, but this changed just before the New Year and is now "burnable" waste (i.e. normal bin).
Did legislation (maybe too strong a word) change recently?
http://www.waserag.ch/?id=15&z=/Privatkunden
What's 20-30 CHF when you're earning 250k
Yeah, but that's me; what about the deplorables?
Is TetraPak not based in Switzerland? I seem to remember something from some years back.
Tetrapak is Nordic. But there used to be a Swiss competitor, SIG if memory serves, until they sold the business.
the 20.-/month is totally worth it... it includes things like batteries, cans, glass, all sorts of plastic etc. ...the other time i chucked my old kettle in it. Honestly for convenience, and the fact that it saves me all those trips to the recycling place, ill gladly spend 20.-/month
...what do you mean by deplorables?
Such a darling, always fighting for the poor.
Or is it more the Swiss sentence: "Bei den Reichen lernt man sparen" that drove you?
I've not seen the triangle ones in like forever. They used to sell chocolate milk in those, no? The milk was always in square ones in my time.
A Basel vs. Zurich thing?
Perfectly o.k. in Zurich. Apart from ammunition and spray cans anything which fits through the slit and is metal can be tossed in.
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content...en/metall.html
Basel City also list aluminum foil as suitable for the recycling container.
They additionally allow hair spray and shaving foam can.
http://www.aue.bs.ch/abfaelle/hausha...aluminium.html
What should not go in is aluminum foil laminated with card board, paper, plastic such as Tetra Packs or butter wrapings.
It is plastic lined which makes it unfit for regular card board recycling.
I was wondering about that too (what 22yards said). As I can chuck all kinds of metals, foils etc. etc. into the same bin at Maag (Winterthur ZH) even when the guy stands behind me and watches me. By the guy I mean the one in charge and ready to jump down my throat. Which he never did so far.
Me neither, I seem to remember some also sold cream in them, coffee cream to be precise. When I think of chocolate milk in tetraeders Comella springs up immediately, as if it's synonymous.
Found it, TetraPak with head offices in Lund and Lausanne.
Just discovered at my local shop, after 3 years Aldi Swiss has stopped collecting and recycling tetrapak and others beverage cartons. Apparently they were recycling 70% packages coming from competitors stores. I must admit I've been part of the problem, recycling cartons from Coop and even from French supermarkets. So, from now on, everything to the Basel incinerator!
Here's a website of an organisation trying to promote recycling of "drinks boxes" (literal translation). It includes a map showing where one can deposit tetrapak.