Waste Separation
| WHY TO SEPARATE? |
|---|
DO YOU KNOW??
- 1 tone of waste paper preserves 17 trees
- if 1 million glasses are returned to the glass works , we save up to 300 tones of quartz sand, 1000 tones of (bleaching )soda, 60 tones of fuel oil, 0,76 million cubic metres of natural gas, and a lot of electricity
- the primary raw material to produce plastics is oil
- we make garments from recycled PET(plastic bottles)
- if we recycle waste aluminium, we save up 95% of energy compared with the production from primary raw material
- if we recycle 1 kilo of scrap-iron , we save up 2 kilos of coal, 4 kilos of Fe- ores, and 20 seconds of work.
KOSIT a.s. started with separated waste collection in Kosice in 2002. We gradually establish optimal conditions to ensure higly functional and efficient separated waste collection
- the number of containers is being increased
- modern technologies for waste collection are being introduced
- new assorting systems are being built
Nevertheless, the main factor in separated waste collection prosperity is your interest and active approach.
| WHY TO SEPARATE? |
|---|
- the separated waste becomes a secondary material, returns to the production level and cuts down the demands for natural recources and energy
- it assures waste material capitalisation
- we save raw materials resources
| WHAT DOES THE MUNICIPAL WASTE CONSIS OF? |
|---|
(figures according to the POH SR)

| WHY TO SEPARATE? |
|---|

GLASS PLASTIC METAL PAPER
| WHAT CAN YOU DO? HOW CAN YOU HELP? |
|---|
- do participate in separated waste collection
- do not throw other municipal waste into the containers for separated waste collection
- packages such as bottles, glass or plastic, cans, tins, or those made of paper should be without scraps
- try to minimalise the volume of the waste ( press the plastic bottles, paper milk boxes, for example)