Municipal waste
In blue recycling bins, which are available in most municipalities in our country, you throw packaging from:
- Paper (magazines, newspapers, cardboard, etc.)
- Plastic (water bottles, plastic bags, etc.)
- Glass (jars, glass bottles) Aluminum (soft drink cans, etc.)
- Tinplate (cans, etc.)
Most batteries are highly toxic, which makes their recycling particularly important. In our country, they are collected in special bins of the AFIS company, which is the responsible body of the specific recycling system. You will find them in various supermarkets and mobile phone stores.
Light bulbs (except incandescent bulbs) contain ingredients that are harmful to the environment and health and should not be disposed of with other household waste, nor should they be broken.
Various electrical equipment stores are equipped with suitable bins for their disposal. The operator responsible for the system in question is the company Photocycling SA.
Common plastic bags also burden the environment.
It is therefore important to use biodegradable bags, canvas bags or large multi-purpose plastic bags with a long shelf life.
What happens after the car is permanently deleted?
Decontamination, which means:
- removal of accumulators and liquefied gas containers
- removal or neutralization of potentially explosive elements (e.g. airbags)
- removal and separate collection and storage of fuel, engine oil, differential oil, gearbox oil, hydraulic oil, coolants, antifreezes, brake fluids, air conditioning fluids and any other fluids contained in vehicles at the end of their life cycle.
Recycling, which means:
- removal of catalysts
- removal of copper and aluminum
- removal of tires and large plastic components (e.g. bumpers, instrument panel, fluid containers, etc.).
- removal of glass panes
At the end of this whole process, what’s left of the car is just sheet metal. This, in turn, ends up in steel mills where, with the appropriate processing, it turns into a useful product again!
