Recycling
Waste and Recycling
You must use special refuse bags to dispose of your household rubbish.The purchase price of these grey`Zuger Gemeinden bags`includes a charge that covers the waste disposal costs. They can be purchased in rolls of different sizes from the post office and sometimes on the shelves of the larger supermarkets beside the normal unofficial refuse sacks (although you may have to ask for them separately). These sacks are then put into the large communal containers near homes or collected on a designated day according to your gemeinde.
It is an offence to use any other than official garbage bags.
Glass, PET, tins, aluminium tins as well as textiles /shoes can be disposed of at the various garbage collecting points around the Kanton. Newspapers and cardboard, tied in bundles, are also collected at the roadside on designated days.
