Dispose of packages with adhesive tape – correctly?
Whoo!
It was certainly an amusing sight as I stood in front of our waste paper garbage can & tried to kick the box apart & shred it… At the same time, I asked myself a question:
Cardboard boxes belong – quite clearly – in the waste paper garbage can.
But now there is also parcel tape, which – unfortunately – is not made of paper (also recyclable paper tape), but of plastic…
As in my incident in the evening, the parcel was also wrapped in plenty of plastic tape to make sure it didn't fall apart. (Sometimes it's just a few strips of plastic tape and I fumble it off…) But how is that? Plastic – whether adhesive tape or not – does not belong in the waste paper container!
How do I dispose of such packages properly? Should I fumble it all off? Should I just put the plastic tape in the waste paper garbage can anyway? I'm at a loss…
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It depends. If there is a proportion of more adhesive tape, such as paper, into the residual garbage ton. However, if the paper content is significantly higher, then to waste paper. The Rececling industry is now able to filter a certain amount of adhesive tape out of the waste paper. But only to a certain degree!
Do you know a percentage?
Now a short process description: What happens to the waste paper from tons or containers? They may be sorted and then be pressed into bales to a paper factory. There the kpl. bale is placed in a so-called pulper. Of value for the paper mill is only the pulp. This one’s being released. All other, for example, adhesive tape, window of envelopes etc., is excreted as so-called spitting material. The spit material is thermally utilized. The metal (of clamps and not to forget the ball twists) is then also pulled out. So you can let the adhesives get on with your conscience!
Thank you! =) Even if a large package is completely covered with it ?o.o
Hello,
it is very useful to use paper wrapping tape. Thus one has a one-material disposal.
https://www.einpacken.de/papier-paketklebeband-braun-supra/p-15995.html
Removal of adhesive tapes or metal clips to stuff that lands in the waste paper is superfluous: iron-containing stapling clamps are removed from the waste paper pulp by magnet and plastics are removed by sieve. For the disposal of larger (often confidential) files to be handled, there are special machines that make small pieces of complete file folders (including the clamps), most of which comes into the raw material cycle again.
If you dispose of magazines, do you flip the metal staples beforehand or do you release the paper labels from wine bottles beforehand?
Well, that’s something else…