From January 1, the capital was moved to the separate collection of waste. Many Muscovites support the idea to separate trash into recyclables and mixed waste, but to produce more accurate sorting. Mospeada supports the desire of the inhabitants of the city holds the shares for the separate collection of waste, thematic lessons sets special containers.
a Competent collection and processing of recyclable materials contribute to the solution of the problem of garbage dumps and landfills. Today, some companies are already using recycled waste to manufacture its products. For example, plastic products are first converted into granules, which makes PET, polyester fiber packing tape, geotextile. Of polyethylene or mixtures of polyethylene and polypropylene produced building materials.
Shares of separate waste collection held in the ecocentres “Gory” and “Bitzevskiy forest”, the Kuskovo environmental school, the eco class on Rodionovskaya street, building 2, the parks “Kuzminki-Lublin”, “Moskvoretsky” and “Tsaritsyno”. Each environmental education center has its own rules: the list of accepted wastes should be clarified at a specific point.
Experts Mospeada has prepared a memo, clarification on what are the different types of plastic and which of them can be taken for recycling.
1 PETE/PET/PET/PET (polietilentereftalat) is transparent bottles of water, milk, yogurt and other beverages, bottles for cosmetics and shampoos.
2 HDPE/LDPE/PE (high density polyethylene) — is a bottles, cans, caps for bottles, bottles of detergents, cleaners, cosmetics, cosmetics.
3 PVC PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a transparent packing food, packing from-under medicines, window frames, toys.
4 LDPE/PE-LD/HDPE (low density polyethylene) are containers for food, packaging film, packaging of cosmetics, washing powder, plastic bags, cutting boards, lids of 19-litre bottles.
5 PP/PP (polypropylene) — lids for bottles, disposable tableware, food packaging, cups for yogurt, flower pots, tins of cosmetics, packaging for lenses, capsules from chocolate eggs.
6 PS/PS (polystyrene) is disposable tableware, cups for yogurt, trays for papers, vegetables, fruits, boxes for CDs and food containers.
Packaging marking 7 other sorts of plastic and mixed plastic. It’s a tube of toothpaste, bottle cooler, packaging of frozen food and cheese, coffee, animal feed, baby bottles made of polycarbonate.
While plastic, no marking and plastic marking 3 PVC PVC and 7 are not accepted for processing. But technology improves every day, and perhaps soon it will be possible to recycle all types of plastic. For example, recently for processing steel to make clean bottles of vegetable oil and the blisters from the pills.
