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Germany’s Alba calls for nationwide recycling system?

Alba Group, Germany’s second largest recycling company, is calling for a general recycling sorting and collection system, that can accept all kinds of plastic products, for the home.

Such a system would involve an extension of the present yellow bag or bin system for post consumer packaging waste to include all forms of plastic products, as well as wood, glass and defect small electrical appliances, which could all be thrown away by the consumer in one bag or bin.

Dr Eric Schweitzer, joint owner of Alba, states: “Two million tonnes of plastics waste are still incinerated in Germany alone, because the material lands in residual waste and is therefore lost to recycling”.

In a new position paper, Alba says German citizens cannot understand why they have to dispose of different plastic products in different ways, “with the shampoo bottle belonging in the yellow bin, but not the plastic toy duck not however”.

Plastic toys such as ducks or the Bobby toy car are often now incinerated in Germany following the introduction of the yellow bag/bin system in 1990. At that time, some local councils removed the central collection containers for general plastic waste.

Alba claims it is supported by the German public, quoting a market survey carried out on its behalf by Forsa, which says that 83% of its respondents are in favour of an additional household bag or wheel bin to sort and collect all recyclable materials.

In addition, the German federal government risks is putting Germany’s leading role in recycling at risk, adds Schweitzer.

Alba has put forward its position paper in view of an EU waste directive, due to be introduced in national laws this year, which is aimed at increasing waste recovery.

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