How to sort the good way?

Every person is obliged, pursuant to law, to manage waste and dispose it only the way as established in the Act. (Pursuant to Section 12 (1) of the Act No. 185/2001 Code.)

According to the valid Ordinance of the Capital City of Prague No. 24/2001 Code municipal waste in the City of Prague shall be sorted into components as follows:


At present pilot projects of the separated collection of composite packages for beverages, like TetraBrick type, and the separated collection of biological waste are tested.


PAPER AND CARDBOARD

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RIGHT WRONG
newspapersářčáář
journals and magazines
exercise books
office paper
advertisement leaflets
books - without laminated covers
brochures
paper boxes - flattened
corrugated cardboard
clean paper packages
clean paper bags
paper clips and staples
greasy or other way contaminated paper
paper handkerchiefs and towels
paper diapers
carbon paper (copying paper)
waxed paper, paraffin paper
tracing paper, velum
tarred paper
composite packages (beverage boxes)


GLASS

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RIGHT WRONG
Glass, clear and coloured (unless a separated collection of clear glass is organised at the locality)
Non-returnable glass bottles for beverages
Large glass cullet
Table glass
Glass vases, glasses, boxes, etc.
mirrors
wire glass
automobile glass
ceramics and porcelain
bulbs
incandescent, fluorescent, and discharge lamps
television screens and computer monitors
vials for drugs

 

PLASTICS

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RIGHT WRONG
Compressed PET bottles with detached caps
Clean polyethylene (igelit) bags and small bags
Clean cups for foodstuffs (i.e. for yoghurts)
Clean freezer (thin polypropylene) bags
Flushed plastic containers for detergents
Polystyrene
contaminated plastic containers
rubber
PU foams
cables
PVC
pneumatics
linoleums and other floorings
textile of synthetic fibre
vials for drugs
composite packages (beverage boxes)

 

BULKY WASTE

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RIGHT WRONG
Old furniture
Carpets and linoleums
Old skis, snowboards, bicycles
Large mirrors
Washbasins, sinks and toiler bowls
refrigerators
television sets and computer monitors
incandescent, fluorescent, and discharge lamps
automotive accumulators
other hazardous waste

 

HAZARDOUS WASTE

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RIGHT
batteries, accumulators
containers for aerosols (sprays)
chemical preparations for gardening
lubricating oils and greases
solvents, thinners, and paints
drugs and thermometers
acids and hydroxides
adhesives, glues, and resins
detergents (degreasing agents)
photochemicals
pesticides (preparations of insecticides, rodenticides, herbicides and weed killers, and mould control preparations)
incandescent, fluorescent, and discharge lamps

 

MIXED WASTE

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Mixed waste, of course, shall include things and materials, which cannot be sorted into other categories. Yet one should keep in mind that if a yoghurt cup is, from time to time, dropped into mixed waste it does not mean so much as if the mixed waste is contaminated with any hazardous waste as, for instance, only one AA size battery.

 

zdeBEVERAGE BOXES

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RIGHT WRONG
All boxes for beverages, that means from milk, dairy products, juice, wine, and other foodstuffs Other packages for beverages (of glass, plastics, and tins)
Boxes for beverages contaminated with hazardous materials (for example, if they are used for painting, lacquering, gluing, etc.).
Boxes for beverages, which are not empty.

 

zdeBIOLOGICAL WASTE

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RIGHT WRONG
Cut grass
windfall fruit (interlaid with grass and cuttings of bush)
cuttings and small branches of bush
soil from flowers without flower pots
weeds
room plants
foliage (without street litter)
waste from fruit and vegetables (cuttings from potatoes, carrots, leftovers of apples, etc.)
eggshells
peels from citruses
coffee and tea sediments (including the filter), tea bags
flower pots made of cardboard and peat
used bedding from small livestock and household pets
diapers
bags from vacuum cleaners
cigarette buts
coal ash
collected street litter
remains of various sauces, spreads, mayonnaise salads
oils
bones
21. června 2005
21. června 2005