Is waste separation compulsory?
Recycling should be a matter of course nowadays, but it can only be realized at all through waste separation. However: is waste separation actually compulsory?
Waste separation - why at all?
- In order for waste to be reprocessed and then recycled, it is imperative to separate the various materials from one another.
- To do this, waste separation is used. Through this, the citizens make an important contribution to the preparatory work necessary for recycling.
Duty or free choice?
- So far, in Germany, waste separation is not a civic obligation, but voluntary assistance in recycling waste.
- However, this will change from 2015 onwards. From then on, all Germans are obliged to separate rubbish, even though Germany is the nation that collects its rubbish in an international comparison cleanest and most effective separates - so clean that here in Germany already 13 percent of the required raw materials are replaced by recycled waste can.
- From the entry into force of the new recycling law, every German citizen is obliged to separate his garbage and the following To collect recyclable materials separately from one another and to recycle them: paper waste, metal waste, plastic waste, organic waste and Plastic waste.
- The replacement of the previous yellow bin in favor of a uniform recycling bin is also under discussion. Their use would enable the joint collection of various recyclable materials, which the Should significantly reduce the acceptance threshold of the citizens - a problem that the following generations will not will know more. Because for the children and grandchildren, waste separation will no longer be an obligation, but a matter of course. (Last updated 2012)
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