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Reinhard PiererManager General Recycling Materials
Katharina TheisenGeneral Recycling Materials
Plastics
Definition: Waste plastics are recycled wherever possible. Plastic packaging is collected separately (yellow bag). Heavily contaminated plastic and small quantities of special types are taken to the waste incinerators.
Recycling: Sorting, recycling, incineration at energy from waste plants
- Plastic bottles
- Tubes
- Tubs
- Film and sheet
- Bags and sacks
- Polystyrene foam
- Canisters
- Buckets
- Drink packaging
- PET bottles
- Plastic-aluminium composites
It is important for plastics to be clean, free from severe contamination and empty; they should be folded flat.
- Residual waste
- Hazardous waste
- Non-packaging materials (where packaging is being recycled)























