Laowai

I still marvel at all the details that you must follow to do proper Swiss recycling. For example – a little yogurt for breakfast? Well make sure to leave time to do the 3 part recycling.

Here’s my yogurt – mmmm – they do have great yogurt here.

Here are the instructions for recycling. See the symbols along the top. First you have some cardboard, there’s a part that goes into the trash (lots of plastics don’t get recycled here), and then there is some aluminum recycling to do.

So here’s my recycling and trash separated. The aluminum top goes into a bin in our kitchen and when it gets full I drop all the aluminum in one of the big bins scattered around our town. The cardboard goes in another bin in our kitchen and then once a month there is a cardboard pick-up day so I bundle it all up (neatly) and put it near the street. Finally the non-recyclable plastic goes into our trash. 

Aaaaaaaaand now it’s time for dinner.