How to separate YOUR WASTE AGGIUS AGLIENTU BADESI BORTIGIADAS CALANGIANUS LUOGOSANTO LURAS SANTA TERESA GALLURA TEMPIO PAUSANIA HELP US TO RECYCLE MORE BY SORTING YOUR WASTE PROPERLY HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE This guide tells you how to put the right rubbish in the right bin and how to distinguish Sorting waste is a team game! the different materials. Sorting waste BULKY WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE If you need to get rid of large waste items • is a legal obligation such as metal bed bases, mattresses, sofas, • allows us to keep down furniture, etc. ... Call us and we will collect them from your home on Thursday free of the costs of the waste charge. collection service • helps the environment BULKY WASTE ITEMS with a small effort Metal bed bases, mattresses, glass and aluminium doors and windows, miscellaneous metallic materials, shelves, wood, plastics and other materials, chairs, sofas, armchairs, miscellaneous furniture, light fittings, empty paint cans, etc. All large WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) such as washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, freezers, etc. How to sort your waste WEEE GLASS Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Glass bottles (remove WEEE means waste electrical and electronic steel and aluminium equipment. WEEE includes refrigerators, caps), drinking glasses, freezers, dishwashers, washing machines, glass containers and cans, glass boilers, air conditioners, domestic appliances, demijohns, glass bowls, glass trays, televisions, mobile phones, computers, flasks. energy-saving light bulbs, shavers, printers, monitors, phones, neon lights, etc. NO: incandescent light bulbs, energy-saving EXPIRED AND light bulbs and neon lamps, mirrors, pyrex glassware, crockery, porcelain and crystal UNUSED MEDICINES Put them in the dedicated containers found in WHERE and HOW: pharmacies. Put the waste, clean and free of residues, loose, not in bags, in the 40-litre grey bins with orange lid in urban areas or in the yellow bins in apartment blocks and for commercial SPENT BATTERIES activities. Put them in the dedicated containers in shops that sell batteries. 240-litre yellow 40-litre grey bin bin for rural are- with orange lid as, apartment for urban areas blocks and - com mercial activities PAPER AND TINS CARDBOARD AND CANS Tetra pak containers (for Food tins and cans (tuna, milk, fruit juice, etc.), meat, vegetables, pet food, magazines, newspapers, etc.), aluminium TINS AND daily newspapers, books, notebooks, sheetsCANS, steelof or aluminium caps or lids, spray paper in general; boxes, cardboard containers cans (hairspray, perfume, foam, cream, and packaging for foodstuf fs (pasta , rice, tuna , etc.), food aluminium trays (not too dirty), etc.), miscellaneous cardboard packaging aluminium tubes (mayonnaise, creams, (shoe boxes, packaging for detergents, toys, etc.), nails, screws, iron wires and other etc.), cardboard egg boxes, carry-out pizza small metal parts for household use, steel- boxes and paper tablecloths. only or aluminium-only moka pots and small NO saucepans, aluminium foil. soiled paper, baking paper, laminated and WHERE and HOW: coupled paper and thermal paper (receipts) Put the waste, clean and free of residues, loose, not in bags, in the 40-litre grey bins WHERE and HOW: with orange lid in urban areas or in the green collect paper and cardboard, preferably tied bins in apartment blocks and for commercial in packages, in bulk or in paper bags and put activities. them in the green bins in urban areas or in the white bins in apartment blocks and for commercial activities 240-litre white 40-litre green 240-litre green 40-litre grey bin bin for rural areas, bin for urban bin for rural areas, with orange lid apartment blocks areas apartment blocks for urban areas and commercial and commercial activities activities How to sort your waste PLASTIC Plastic bottles for water, Put here all items that cannot be beverages, oil, juice and milk sorted and recycled and those etc., containers/dispensers of items made of different materials detergents, soaps, various household cleaners, that cannot be separated (but do separate transparent boxes, rigid containers/flexible them where possible). packaging for food in general (sweets, freshPlastic cutlery, clothes hangers, rubber and pasta, cold cuts, etc.), plastic containers for plastic toys, CDs, DVDs, audio and videotapes, foodstuffs (eggs, ice creams, etc.), containers/ crockery, porcelain, pyrex glassware and glass tubs for yoghurt, creams and desserts, net bags ceramic, vacuum cleaner waste and household for fruit and vegetables, plastic cups for cold waste, packaging of demijohns (both in plastic tea drinks, cans for the packaging of various and hay), X-ray photographs, photographic products (cosmetics, wet wipes, snacks), plant films and slides, pens, felt-tip pens and pots (maximum diameter 15-20 cm), plastic bags stationery products in general, toothbrushes for food in general (pasta, rice, chips, candies, and brushes, sponges and old rags, greaseproof ice cream, etc.), plastic shopping bags, bags for or laminated paper, tights, disposable nappies gardening products, pet food or detergents, and sanitary towels/pads, pet waste, clothes, small plastic packaging (wrapping of bottles, shoes, cigarette butts and chewing gums. toilet paper, snacks, etc.), polystyrene, plastic cups and plates WHERE and HOW: NO Do not use black plastic bags. Use a semi- Plastic cutlery and toys transparent bag and place it in the 40-litre WHERE and HOW: grey bin in urban areas or in the grey bin Compress the waste and place it, in bulk or in in apartment blocks and for commercial semi-transparent plastic bags, in 40-litre green activities. bins in urban areas or in the large blue bins in apartment blocks and for commercial activities. 240-litre blue bin 40-litre green 240-litre grey bin 40-litre for rural areas, bin for urban for rural areas, grey bin for apartment blocks areas apartment blocks residential and commercial and commercial areas activities activities. How to sort your waste FOOD WASTE Cold and drained plate scrapings, raw or cooked; molluscs such as mussels and clams and their shells, etc., remains of fruit and vegetables, meat, fish and bones, rice, pasta, bread, biscuits, cheese, damaged food, fruit, seeds, coffee grounds and tea, camomile and other infusions bags, eggshells, molluscs and dried fruit, paper napkins and paper tissues, sawdust, kitchen paper towels, excrements of domes tic animals, leaves and flowers from indoor plants (small quantities), dried flowers and cold wood ash. WHERE and HOW: Use the compostable bags, close them tightly and put them in the 25-litre brown bin in urban areas, in the brown bin in apartment blocks or in the 300-litre composters in rural areas. 300-litre 240-litre 25-litre bin for composter for brown bin for urban areas rural areas apartment blocks Did you know? Fact: recycling glass is good for the economy and What happens to non-recyclable waste? the environment. Non-recyclable waste means all the waste that New bottles can be made from recycled glass with cannot be sent for recycling: it should not be mi- significant energy savings: up to 25% of energy xed with recyclable waste because this would con- saved, amounting to thousands of tonnes of oil. taminate the recycling process. Recycling glass also helps the environment by Non-recyclable waste is sent to landfills or burned reducing quarrying activity to obtain the silica in waste-to-energy plants to produce electricity. needed to make glass. Did you know that recycling old clothes is good? Fact: 90% of the paper, bags and boxes used in Still wearable clothes can be donated to charities supermarkets is made from recycled materials. for reuse; the rest can be reprocessed by the texti- The remaining 10% of the raw wood used to make paper le industry for various uses or can be shredded to bags and cardboard boxes comes from sustainably obtain textile fibres and so reduce the demand managed forests and fast-growing tree plantations for virgin fibres. Thus recycling also helps the en- managed to produce paper. vironment by reducing the environmental impact of industry. Did you know that tyres can also be recycled? Fact: all the moka pots produced in Italy (about 7 It is very important to dispose of tyres properly million) are made of recycled aluminium because, if mixed with normal waste, they can be Thanks to the increasing amounts of recycled toxic and polluting. Tyres are made of non-biode- aluminium, over the last five years it was possible to gradable material and can pollute the air and soil if save a volume of CO2 emissions equivalent to the burned. On the other hand, tyres can be recycled greenhouse gas emissions of a small thermoelectric to obtain energy, tiles, shoe soles, road paving ma- power plant. terials, motor vehicle components and much more. Did you know that plastic has a very long life? Did you know that batteries are a hazardous waste? If it is disposed of in landfills or abandoned in All hazardous waste must be separated from other nature, it remains there for hundreds of years types of waste. Hazardous waste must be placed because it is almost indestructible. If, on the in the appropriate containers. Hazardous waste - contrary, we recycle it, it can be turned into even more than other waste - must never be di- many objects which can still be useful: toys, scarded in the environment: hazardous waste con- benches, furnishings, car interiors, carpet, new tains acids, lead and other metals harmful to the containers, etc. environment and to human health. MUNICIPALITY OF CONTACT US, WE ARE ALWAYS AGGIUS HAPPY TO HELP. Contact us (free of charge) for MUNICIPALITY OF information and reports, and to book the AGLIENTU bulky waste, garden waste and nappy collection service for households (free MUNICIPALITY OF of charge). BADESI FREE-PHONE MUNICIPALITY OF (LANDLINE ONLY) BORTIGIADAS 800.530.980 For calls from mobile phones MUNICIPALITY OF and to request collection CALANGIANUS of BULKY WASTE ITEMS 075.59.17.125 MUNICIPALITY OF LUOGOSANTO Open from Monday to Saturday from 8:30 a.m.