Recycling Map

Recycling Map – for Switzerland: 100 per cent recycling and zero per cent littering

The Recycling Map groups 15,000 collection points for different recyclable materials throughout Switzerland. The app is useful for anybody looking for the nearest collection point for used aluminium packaging, tins, glass bottles, recyclable plastic, textiles, batteries, electric devices (office and entertainment) or any other reusable materials. The map provides information on the location and opening hours of collection points, as well as a list of goods that each collection point will accept.

Functions:
• Search for collection points by postal code/locality or near your current location (GPS)
• Detailed information concerning collection points: locality/address, opening hours, collected materials
• Get directions to collection points
• Overall view of all collected goods and detailed explanation of the different materials
More features on PC/Mac/Linux in your Browser and under iOS.

Collected materials:
• Aluminium packaging
• Batteries
• Beverage cartons
• Biogenous waste
• Bulky Items
• Car batteries
• Cardboard
• CDs + DVDs
• Corks
• Electric Equipment Office + Entertainment
• Electric Household Appliances
• EPS
• Fluorescent Lamps
• Glass
• Glasses
• Green waste
• Household waste
• Inert Substances
• Ink Cartridge
• Landfill Refuse (mineral waste)
• Metals
• Nespresso Capsules
• Paper
• PE Dairy Produce Bottles
• PET Bottles
• Plastic bottles
• Plastics (except EPS and PET)
• Second hand shop
• Sheet Steel/Tinplate Packaging
• Special Waste
• Textiles and Shoes
• Tires
• Toner Cartdridge
• Unbroken Glass (whole bottles)
• Weapons + ammunition
• Waste Oil
• Water Filter Cartridge
• Wood

The Igora Cooperative for aluminium recycling has been very active in collecting and recycling discarded aluminium packaging in Switzerland for more than 20 years. As a member of SWISS RECYCLING, Igora has created an unparalleled list of collection points for recycling in Switzerland, and has made it available to private households and interested individuals in the form of this Recycling Map App and on the web at www.recycling-map.ch.