Yogurt cup recycling

Joghurtbecher Recycling

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Dear Migros

Can yoghurt pots be recycled with the milk/plastic bottles at Migros?

Thank you very much!

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oppliger-kuenzi

I would ask the consumer hotline of Migros, at the bottom of the packaging it has a
Recyiclin sign e.g. PP or PS. This gives information about the plastic mixture.
It is astonishing that Switzerland is no further forward in the recycling of waste.
We can hand in everything at our regional recycling center, i.e. all plastic and film.
It just has to be clean, so as a five-person household we only have one 35-liter kerbside bag per week.
per week.

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Guest

Hello

@Tanja_Migros
Why are you lying to us? What you're writing is absolute nonsense and you should actually know it because it's been a topic here before. Which of your bosses told you to publish such nonsense here?

Migros sells a lot of food and drinks in Tetra-Paks, but uses the cheapest excuses and brazen lies to shirk its responsibility to take back the recyclable containers. Migros only takes back what it is legally obliged to, such as batteries or what it earns something from. Most of the plastics that can be returned to Migros are sent for thermal recycling (incineration). On the one hand because they are potent energy sources, on the other hand because the large quantities cannot be recycled at all. Plastics for food packaging may not even consist of recycled material.

Beverage cartons in particular, which are made of different materials, can be recycled. Between 2012 and 2014, the GKR association tested the collection and recycling of beverage cartons. The result: the population supports the project and makes use of the opportunity. The collection is clean, with few foreign substances, and the material can be recycled in a Swiss paper mill in eastern Switzerland. However, Migros earns nothing from the collection of Tetra-Paks and other drinks cartons, which is why it does not support the project. Profit is simply more important to Migros than recycling and environmental protection. But Migros is not the only cheapskate, because Coop and most other wholesalers and discounters don't want to help either.

Don't throw your drinks cartons in the bin, collect them and take them to the recycling centers that support the project along with the other recyclables. This will encourage other recycling centers to collect Tetra-Paks as well and at some point the sales outlets will also be obliged to take them back.

Don't be fooled, drinks cartons are not waste!
More information at:
http://www.getraenkekarton.ch/

Kind regards from Migi-Ferkel

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Guest

Hello Tanja_Migros

That is not an insinuation but a fact, because you have known since at least last November that drinks cartons no longer have to be incinerated and can now be recycled. Yet you claim that they should end up in the waste incinerator.

Last November there was a topic here with the title:
BEVERAGE CARTON RECYCLING why not at MIGROS?
You even took part in it on 05.11.2015 at 08:26 and therefore knew very well that Tetra-Paks are no longer residual waste. So if you claim that this packaging in particular cannot be recycled, as you recently did, then this is a bold-faced lie.
You were even impressed by the discussion on this topic and allegedly wanted to have informed the people responsible for recycling at Migros about it. If you actually did this and there really are such people at Migros, then Migros should be aware that drinks cartons can be recycled. So any claim to the contrary is simply a lie.

The so-called "holistic" solution (FengShui?) that you mentioned at the time is also nothing more than a lame excuse. Enhanced with marketing blah-blah, Migros is putting many a problem on the back burner. As part of Generation M, Migros could easily have provided active and possibly financial support for the project to recycle drinks cartons, which was launched on a large scale in 2012. Instead, it is still stubbornly resisting this forward-looking environmental contribution and is apparently even prepared to sabotage it with misinformation.
If Migros does not want to assume its responsibility, does not want to help promote the recycling of beverage cartons or at least support it in its current form, then it should stop using Tetra-Paks altogether. Until Migros has fully implemented either one or the other, I don't want to have to read any more narrow-minded untruths from them. Otherwise, Migros officials and mouthpieces will have to live with being called liars and exposed.

Greetings from the Migi piglet

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Guest

Hello@deactivated user

Regarding the recycling of beverage cartons
It is correct that it is technically possible to take back Tetra Paks. However, it has not yet been proven that this also makes sense from an ecological point of view. The following points apply:

In contrast to other countries, we take back a lot of packaging ecologically and economically efficiently via the retail trade. Therefore, the collection systems and experiences from abroad cannot be transferred 1:1.

However, corresponding clarifications have already been carried out in Switzerland with regard to Tetra Pak recycling.

In addition to the waste recyclables from the existing separate collections, millions of reusable containers and in-house waste such as cardboard, plastics etc. must also be returned to the retail trade. Therefore, with the expected return volumes in the retail trade, additional trips would have to be made with trucks to cope with the volume. This would reverse the ecological benefits of collection in the retail trade.

Furthermore, additional costs would be incurred for handling and other costs arising from this collection (new containers in the sales outlets, storage space in the distribution centers and possibly new baling presses) would have to be taken into account. The financing of the entire system has not been clarified. It should also be noted that even with recycling, a considerable proportion of Tetra packs will still be sent for thermal recycling (aluminum and plastics).

Regarding the statement that Migros only takes back what is required by law:
Migros takes back some waste fractions that it is not legally obliged to take back; e.g. cream blower cartridges, CDs/DVDs and resealable plastic bottles. The specialists from the Environment Department check very carefully whether a new collection can be recycled ecologically well before it is introduced (as they did with the plastic bottle collection a few years ago, for example).

The fact that no recycled material may be used for food packaging in general is not entirely correct: this depends very much on the food (for example, on how high the fat content is and how long the food has a shelf life - i.e. how long it will remain in the packaging). Our M-Industry also uses recycled plastic for foods for which it is safe to use. For example, all Migros own-brand PET drinks bottles contain at least 30% recycled PET (some even more). The plastic packaging for cheeses now also consists of 80% recycled PET (recycled PET is not critical here, as the cheeses are only in the packaging for a short time).

That much we can currently say about recycling. You can believe us or not. We examine new possibilities very carefully before we resort to them.

Best wishes and have a nice weekend already.

Tanja

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