Once a month, gelber sacks are picked up for recycling. Gelber sacks are not for cardboard, paper, metal, or industrial plastic. You can recycle things like yogurt containers, aluminum cans, chip bags, and anything in a tetra pak (think, cardboard-y milk containers). Gelber sacks are collected for free, even the yellow bags (literally translated gelber sacks) are free. So, anything that can go in the sack does. Garbage is not collected for free, paper is only collected once every couple of months, and cardboard three times a year.
This is the pile of gelber sacks that BFA put out for recycling this month. It is literally as tall as I am. 
This biggest question is: what happens to the stuff in the gelber sacks? One rumor is that the contents are driven to France and burned. Another is that they are buried or tossed into the landfills with all of our regular garbage. But, hopefully what happens is they are sorted and recycled, since that is why we go to all of the trouble of storing our recycling in our basement every month.
This biggest question is: what happens to the stuff in the gelber sacks? One rumor is that the contents are driven to France and burned. Another is that they are buried or tossed into the landfills with all of our regular garbage. But, hopefully what happens is they are sorted and recycled, since that is why we go to all of the trouble of storing our recycling in our basement every month.
1 comment:
I vote for sending them to France
Pops
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