There are “recycling drop off” containers every few blocks or so in the City of Geneva. Just in a ten-block radius I found four “stations”. However, for detailed info on where to go follow the link to the Canton Geneva interactive map:

Click on cartes dynamiques. Once inside, click on the environment category, then click on “points de recuperation des dechets.”

For a guide on recycling in Vaud, you may try the following: guide dechets Vaud.

And it seems Ollon and Villars both have “dechetteries” thus your recycling probably has to go to one of those places.

Happy recycling!
Laila

(1) When the recycled materials are picked up, is it kept in separate containers?
(2) When the recycled materials reach the recycling center are the materials comingled or kept separate.
I recently visited a recycling center here in the U.S. and was very surprised to find out that most of the things we send to our recycling center aren’t recycled. Recyclers take out the items that they can sell and the rest is carted to the landfill. I’m all for recycling and I hope that new markets will be developed for the items we discard. We need to use the things we have to the maximum extent possible and when they go into the trash…they are recycled into new and useful things.

Max
http://www.ensobottles.com
“Bottles for a Healthier Earth”

This is a wonderful addition to the GenevaLunch website as well, although unfortunately I don’t see the full translation of the French edition. Am I missing something?

I suggest you keep this easily accessible at all times or repost it from time to time, because so many people, even those who read French, have difficulty keeping up with just how to sort their garbage.

For those who don’t frequent supermarkets (like me) in Geneva, for example, how do we find out where to put our plastic PET bottles? I’ve asked everyone in my neighborhood, including the concierge, and no one seems to know. The city of Geneva is not very good at keeping people informed about this. When the organic waste containers were distributed a few years ago, for example, I had neighbors asking me what they were supposed to do with the waste after filling them, because no information letter was included with it.

In addition, sorting is different in each city. We live mainly in Villars-sur-Ollon in the Vaud, and I have tried every way possible to get a full explanation of how to sort garbage here, and it’s extremely difficult. And my French is not the problem. I think the Swiss need to make an effort at communicating this very important matters.