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1World1Love
4 years ago

Pringles can consist of four different materials: foil, cardboard, plastic and metal. For optimal recycling, each material should be disposed of separately. The cardboard comes into the paper ton. It is best separated from the metal bottom with a sharp knife. The film and the plastic cover come into the yellow tone or the yellow sack. The metal bottom can be disposed of with the special garbage. From a legal perspective, Pringles cans in Germany can also be thrown into the yellow tone. For these countries, Pringles cans belong to the packaging waste and therefore belong to the yellow clay or in the yellow sack. This applies to all clean household items, which consist at least 50 percent of plastic or metal. Batteries or electrical appliances are not included – these are part of the special waste.In which garbage are Pringles cans? How are they separated correctly? Explanation, waste separation

Pringles can have the “Green Point”. This means that it is a packaging for the yellow tone or the yellow bag. Products with the Green Point are collected, sorted and disposed of by the Dual System Germany (DSD). Pringles cans must therefore be thrown away at the piece, but should be cut beforehand. This makes it possible to save space in the tone. On the other hand, on the occasion of the opportunity, the metal bottom can be separated out, which can be removed separately.

Large Pringles cans, as they are offered for special promotions, sometimes do not fit into the Yellow Sack. They should be folded before disposal so that the tone can be closed. A non-closed yellow clay may not be taken by the disposal plant.

Proper waste separation: Dispose of cans clean and folded

Packaging waste for the yellow clay should be cleaned before disposal. The waste must be separated later and the individual components must be transferred to the final disposal sites. It is necessary to completely empty Pringles cans and throw them into the matching tone. However, rinsing of the cans is not necessary insofar as they are not otherwise contaminated.

Pringles cans should also be folded together before disposal. This saves space and prevents other garbage from entering the empty can. Commercially available cans can be folded by hand, the more compact, the better. Thus, a plurality of Pringles can be inserted into one another and dispose of them in a particularly space-saving manner. However, the legal situation makes no difference between folded and original preserved cans. It is only important that each Pringles can be thrown into the yellow clay or the yellow bag.

How to dispose of Pringles cans

Cans of the popular chip brand also belong to the garbage bucket on the way. You can be thrown into normal garbage buckets. These are emptied, just like the yellow tone, the content is separated and separately disposed of. It is therefore easily possible to dispose of Pringles cans in the garbage can on the motorway parking lot or next to the petrol station. It should only be noted that the cans are clean and empty, otherwise recycling becomes unnecessary. They should also be folded together and, if possible, divided into their individual components. A separate disposal of plastic lid, metal bottom, foil and cardboard box considerably facilitates subsequent separation. Depending on the size of the yellow tone, the individual components can be thrown into smaller plastic bags and disposed together in the yellow tone. This also simplifies the further processing of the household waste.

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1World1Love
4 years ago
Reply to  cleverdog07

Thanks =)

Ontario
3 years ago
Reply to  1World1Love

For professional reasons, I had to do in a company which processed waste paper to packaging paper, cardboard paper etc.

There are big paper bales delivered by trucks, so waste paper. These bales are held together by steel bands.

The individual bales are placed on a belt by means of forklifts and transported into a housing. There are sensors that "select" the bale.

The steel bands are automatically separated by means of scissors, so that the bales virtually break apart.

In these waste paper bales there is often plastic material, metal parts glass etc., which is thrown into the paper tones during disposal.

This bale is fed to a fully automatic sorting system by means of a conveyor belt. All that is not made of paper is separated in this sorting system. Metal parts, plastic, glass, all sorts this plant without any human being engaging. The sorted parts then fall through pipes into the containers standing below them. Even the type of metals is differentiated and collected separately in containers.

When I read how to deal with different materials in the disposal, I realize that everything is just money making.

There are plants that sort themselves. These systems are very expensive and do not exist in municipalities. In some cases, this is sorted by hand, which is not necessary for technically mature plants.

What these plants can't do is sorting organic waste.

But everything else can be sorted fully automatically.

With garbage, millions are earned. Basically, we only need 2 tons. One for residual waste and one for biowaste if the technical equipment were available for sorting.

1World1Love
4 years ago

all good =)

verreisterNutzer
4 years ago

Composite materials belong to Sackus-Gelbus.

However, it is not all gold that shines, but only relieves "standard landfills" at certain locations.

Let's be made of Sackus Gelbus about 10 to 20% of genuinely separable in a recycling use go away from separable metals.

The rest goes to combustion plants for the optimization of combustion by targeted calorific value mitigation at the residual waste.

Picea007xyz
3 years ago

everything in normal home waste.