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Lightweight packaging
Lightweight packaging is sales packaging made from the following materials:
- Plastic
- Composite materials
- Tinplate (food cans)
- Aluminum
They are collected as part of the dual systems. The yellow garbage cans are available in 120 l and 240 l containers as well as green 1,100 l containers with a yellow lid.
What belongs in the yellow garbage can?
Used sales packaging such as:
- Cups (yoghurt, quark, margarine)
- Beverage cartons / Tetrapacks
- Wrapping tins (from powdered drinks, potato chips)
- Foils (wrapping films, bags)
- Plastic cups and bottles
- Plastic bags, carrier bags, films
- Foams (polystyrene trays)
- Pharmaceutical blister packs (tablet packaging)
- Beverage and food cans
- Composite materials made of plastic/ paper/ metal
- Cans, beverage and food cans made of tinplate and aluminum
- Tubes (toothpaste, shoe polish)
- Plant pots
- Soup cans
- Spray cans
- Aluminum foils, lids, menu trays
- Wine / champagne bottle sleeves
- Crown caps
- Coffee capsules
- Bottles (cleaning / care products, drinks)
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How are the bins collected?
The yellow garbage cans are emptied by Servicegesellschaft Jena mbH and transferred to KSJ at Löbstedter Straße 68.
Around 3,800 tons of sales packaging accumulate in the Jena collection area every year.
What happens next?
After collection, this waste is allocated to the dual systems according to market share. The dual systems are a take-back system for the collection, sorting and recycling of sales packaging. Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) was the first and is probably the best-known dual system. Today, "Der Grüne Punkt GmbH" is one of many providers of take-back systems.
Each dual system is responsible for meeting its own statutory recycling quotas. The collection mix collected in Jena is transported to the individual sorting/recycling plants by haulage companies.