Fri, 10 February 2012
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Our new blogger, Z, lives in the small Swiss village of Villigen where paper recycling is only collected once every three months.I didn't think recycling would be the subject of my first contribution to Swiss Expatica, especially considering that the topic has already been covered (in some detail!) in a previous article by Jessica Cartwright. But, here we are.
My home is in a small village about 35 kilometres (21 miles) from Zürich and instead of monthly, our paper gets picked up once every THREE months.
I'm sure many of you are wondering how this actually works; how it is that people's homes don't drown in all that paper that must be hoarded until the blessed pick-up day. I wondered that myself until I realised that the amount of paper we collected on a monthly basis was a fraction of what I collected when I lived in the US.
We can reduce the amount even further by opting out of the advertising mail we do receive.
The interesting thing about the collection (at least in Villigen) is that the local recreational groups (Vereine) organise them. They use all sorts of vehicles, many of them farm-related, to transport the paper away. The people involved make it look like fun!
And what happens to the paper? Some of it gets recycled into stuff like cardboard and toilet paper, and some of it gets made into cellulose insulation for the construction industry.
Text and photos by Z in Villigen
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