We collect plastic packaging, metal packaging (tins), and beverage cartons (PMD) separately. This allows us to recover valuable raw materials for reuse. You can dispose of PMD in your PMD container* or at one of our recycling centers. recycling centers.
Ask yourself 3 questions
Are you unsure whether something belongs in PMD? Answer these 3 questions:
- Is it plastic, metal, or a drink carton?
- Does the packaging come from the household?
- Is it empty?
If the answer is YES three times, then it can be recycled with the plastic, metals, and other materials.
What belongs where?
For your convenience, we have listed the separation rules for you.
Yes, with the PMD
Pour, squeeze and scrape empty containers
- Plastic packaging
- Metal packaging
- Drink, yoghurt and sauce cartons
- Chip, soup and other packaging bags
- Caps and lids
- Aerosol cans (such as hairspray, deodorant, whipped cream)
- Coffee capsules (do not need to be empty)
- Large packaging films
- Small shopping bags and transparent collection bags
- Blank blister packs
Not with the PMD
No packaging with contents
- Agricultural, pond liners and root cloth
- Plastic products/non-packaging
- Metal objects, such as cutlery and pans
- Medical waste
- Organic waste and food waste
- Glass
- Paper and cardboard
- Textile
- Electrical appliances, batteries and accumulators
- residual waste
*Note: How you dispose of PMD depends on where you live. Residents of high-rise and low-rise buildings without a PMD container may dispose of PMD and residual waste together in a residual waste collection container in their neighborhood. This waste is collected separately and later sorted by machines.
What happens to collected PMD?
How does the PMD cycle work?
After your container is emptied, we take the PMD to a processor. The processor separates the materials: the plastics, metals, and beverage cartons. Each raw material stream then goes to final processors. Final processors then transform the raw material streams into new raw materials.
- Plastic packaging For example, it is ground into flakes, cleaned, and granulated. These granules are used to make new plastic packaging and products. Examples include fleece clothing, mobile phone and laptop cases, car dashboards, and tennis balls.
- Metal It is infinitely recyclable. Metal factories use it as a raw material to manufacture new cans. It also makes building materials, bicycles, and airplanes, for example.
- The recycling plant separates the cardboard fibers from the cardboard from beverage cartons of the plastic (polyethylene) and the aluminum layer. The cardboard fibers are used as raw material in the paper industry for the production of products such as boxes, office supplies, and tissue paper. The plastic and aluminum are also recovered. They are used as raw materials for products like crates, buckets, and aluminum tubes.