Hello, I bought these plastic collection bags at home. I'm trying to do the same at the company where I work, but where do the bags go once they've been collected without Migros? Which recycling channels?
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Hello martibeche77, the collection bags can be returned to the stores that sell them. All other stores are not yet equipped to collect bags. You can find these stores on our website: https://filialen.migros.ch/fr/filter:market_services-market-service-mig_plstc/center:46.8182,8.2275/zoom:8/. Best regards, Sina
M-Infoline
Hello martibeche77, the collection bags can be returned to the stores that sell them. All other stores are not yet equipped to collect bags. You can find these stores on our website: https://filialen.migros.ch/fr/filter:market_services-market-service-mig_plstc/center:46.8182,8.2275/zoom:8/. Best regards, Sina
Hi Sina, Thank you for your reply, but I was wondering where the bags go once they have been filled and taken to the collection centers? Are they sent to a sorting center in Switzerland or elsewhere? How are the various plastics recycled?
martibeche77
Hi Sina, Thank you for your reply, but I was wondering where the bags go once they have been filled and taken to the collection centers? Are they sent to a sorting center in Switzerland or elsewhere? How are the various plastics recycled?
Hello, Today, the available capacities of Migros returns logistics are used to transport collected plastic between the stores and the Migros distribution center. The plastic is compacted in the distribution center before being collected by the recycling company. From the sorting center, the material is sent to the recycling plant, from where it is returned as recycled raw material for industrial and packaging use. The plastic is transported to the distribution center via Migros' own returns logistics. Here, the material is compacted before being collected by the recycling company. It is then sorted and recycled. Most of the recycled raw material is used in the manufacture of pipes and films. The aim is for it to be able to return to the M-Industry and packaging production in the near future, and to end up on our store shelves as a Migros product. For the time being, the plastics are sorted near the Swiss border in Austria, and then processed in Switzerland by our partner InnoPlastics AG into high-quality plastic regranulates. Unfortunately, we do not currently have sufficient sorting capacity in Switzerland. However, Migros is planning to build a dedicated sorting facility with the help of its partner. In the meantime, sorting takes place in Austria. After sorting, the raw material of various qualities arrives at the recycling plant. It is crushed, washed several times and dried in a complex, multi-stage process. Only at the end of these operations is it transformed into regranulates. Once produced, regranulates are stored in silos, where they wait to be recovered and transformed into new products. As soon as they reach the end of their life, they can be recycled again. The cycle repeats itself over and over again. Best regards, Sarah
Sarah_Migros
Hello, Today, the available capacities of Migros returns logistics are used to transport collected plastic between the stores and the Migros distribution center. The plastic is compacted in the distribution center before being collected by the recycling company. From the sorting center, the material is sent to the recycling plant, from where it is returned as recycled raw material for industrial and packaging use. The plastic is transported to the distribution center via Migros' own returns logistics. Here, the material is compacted before being collected by the recycling company. It is then sorted and recycled. Most of the recycled raw material is used in the manufacture of pipes and films. The aim is for it to be able to return to the M-Industry and packaging production in the near future, and to end up on our store shelves as a Migros product. For the time being, the plastics are sorted near the Swiss border in Austria, and then processed in Switzerland by our partner InnoPlastics AG into high-quality plastic regranulates. Unfortunately, we do not currently have sufficient sorting capacity in Switzerland. However, Migros is planning to build a dedicated sorting facility with the help of its partner. In the meantime, sorting takes place in Austria. After sorting, the raw material of various qualities arrives at the recycling plant. It is crushed, washed several times and dried in a complex, multi-stage process. Only at the end of these operations is it transformed into regranulates. Once produced, regranulates are stored in silos, where they wait to be recovered and transformed into new products. As soon as they reach the end of their life, they can be recycled again. The cycle repeats itself over and over again. Best regards, Sarah
Recycling plastic is a hellish problem, because yes, it would be better not to have produced/sold it! There's one place where you could actively harvest plastic: at the swimming pool, or in sports centers, next to the showers, there are -non-separating- garbage cans full of (empty!) plastic shower gel bottles. Of course, it's not all Migros, but it's a lot! There's plenty of room to recover and recycle, if that were a goal, because I don't think the pool in question sorts from the garbage can (in fact, I didn't ask them to).
We could install collecting garbage cans for non-PET plastic (and other sorted/recycled waste), but the problem will remain of getting these collected bags to a real recovery center, and not to a combustion center (cement factory style) to do "thermal enhancement", nor to a garbage dump in some benevolent, out-of-control overseas country. I would see some thought of launching a specific project for this kind of public or private facility. Best regards, and happy new year.
"Recycling plastics is a real puzzle, especially when we think about all that packaging we use on a daily basis, including at work. A useful idea might be to choose more sustainable solutions, such as a reusable [**lunch bag**](https://le-sac-isotherme.com/) to carry your lunch, instead of using single-use plastic bags. This helps reduce waste and is much more practical! Perhaps Migros could consider promoting these kinds of alternatives in its stores. What do you think?"
AlexIso
"Recycling plastics is a real puzzle, especially when we think about all that packaging we use on a daily basis, including at work. A useful idea might be to choose more sustainable solutions, such as a reusable [**lunch bag**](https://le-sac-isotherme.com/) to carry your lunch, instead of using single-use plastic bags. This helps reduce waste and is much more practical! Perhaps Migros could consider promoting these kinds of alternatives in its stores. What do you think?"
Hi AlexIso, thank you for your message. We have forwarded your interesting input to the appropriate department to include a reusable carrier bag in our assortment. Your suggestion is being evaluated; at this time we cannot promise that it will be accepted. Sincerely, Lea