If you use canned goods in your home, small metals accumulate quickly. Our houses have separate containers for metal waste in the waste rooms. Rinse metal containers with cold water before placing them in the collection container.
Metal recycling is important because the material can then be used again as raw material. Recycled metal is made by crushing the raw material into metal packaging and other metal products. Sorting also makes economic sense: recycling saves you money on your house's bills.
You can put small metal in the collection container
- Cans
- Deposit-free beverage cans
- Aluminum pans and foils
- Small metal objects, caps and lids (e.g. from yogurt jars)
- Frying pans, pots and cutlery
- Empty, dry paint cans
- Empty aerosol cans
Small metal may not be placed in the collection container.
- Large metal scrap
- Electrical appliances
- Coffee bags and crisp bags
Metal or not? – Take the test
It can sometimes be difficult to tell which packaging material is used, especially between thin metal packaging and plastic packaging. Then take a handy test:
Crush the packaging into a small ball – if it returns to its shape, it is probably not metal (e.g. a coffee bag). The metal will remain in the compressed shape.
