🔵Papier

Egg cartons:

• • Yes, paper egg cartons are definitvely for the paper bin!

  • You can also dispose of them at the Recyclinghof with your newspapers

  • 💡Eco-tip: Consider using egg cartons as kindling for your wood stove or fireplace. Saving them throughout the year will provide you with enough kindling for the whole winter.

Books (On BFA's campus, bring heavy books and catalogues to the dumpster yourself, to make it less heavy for custodial staff.)

Brochures

Cardboard

Cardboard wrapping of yogurt/sour cream cups (separate these from the plastic)

Catalogues (make sure there is no plastic band attached). On BFA's campus, bring heavy books and catalogues to the dumpster yourself, to make it less heavy for custodial staff.

Chocolate boxes

Envelopes (even with a plastic window, they can go into the papier bin)

Flour bags (empty)

Folding boxes

Letters

Magazines

Newspapers

Paper bags for baked goods

• • Make sure there is no plastic coating on the paper. You can rip it, and if there is no plastic laminate, then it is safe for paper. For Penny bags, which have plastic and paper, you need to separate the plastic and put in gelbe.

  • If you are unsure, put in Restmüll

  • 💡Eco-tip: Reuse bags! Paper bags keep mushrooms and other veggies more fresh in the fridge (they wick away moisture and prevent bacteria growth). Paper bags can be used as trash bags. Consider taking them on walks and filling them with trash you find on the side of the road.

Pasta boxes (separate any plastic bags)

Postcards

Sugar bags (empty)

Wrapping paper, Christmas gift paper

Baking sheets for the oven (Restmüll). It is teflon-coated and not pure paper.

Butter wrappers (Gelbe sack)

Döner box (Restmüll). Döner boxes almost always have food in them and are not clean enough for Papier.

Kitchen paper towels (Bio or Restmüll)

Milk/juice cartons (Gelbe). This is a composite and not pure paper. It belongs in gelbe, but is rarely recycled at the plant.

Paper plates that are dirty, stained. Papier is only for clean paper!

Pizza boxes (Restmüll). Pizza boxes almost always have food in them and are not clean enough for Papier.

Printed photos (Restmüll)

Receipts from store (Restmüll)

• • Most stores print receipts on thermal paper (the black is not ink, but a chemical reaction on the receipt). To test if a receipt is thermal paper, touch it to something hot.

  • Some stores print with ink on paper, and those paper receipts can go in Papier.

Used kleenex/tissues (Restmüll)

Wine cork (Restmüll or Recyclinghof)

Wooden boxes (not painted): must be broken down and put in Recyclinghof