Recycling Bins in Airports
I am not fascinated by the recycling bins 🙂 but just curios to what degree the airports are ‘recycling friendly’.
And this is my ‘report’ starting with the worst offender. It is the Munich Airport, where there are no recycling bins!?! Who would have thought I would have found this situation in Germany who has been at the forefront of recycling. I was so surprised that I went to the Customer Service. She feigned some surprise that there were no recycling bins and that was it (she seemed quite annoyed that I disturbed her with such an issue, any issue for that matter).
Only one type of waste bin in the Munich Airport
Quebec: 2 bins, 1 of them for recyclables (I suppose someone will separate them later)
And for the rest of the airports I have visited, the recycling bins are as expected. The ones from Geneva are the ‘best’, there are four bins very clearly marked, easy to identify what they are for.
Bucharest
Brussels
Calgary
Geneva
Montreal
San Francisco
Vancouver
Victoria
Actually not having to sort your recylce is a sign of good recycling facilitie. Take edmonton , top 3 recycling facilities on the world. Ppl there haven’t had to sort their recycle in over 10 yrs. I was shocked when I moved away and paper, cans, etc. Had to be seperated out when throwing it away.
I actually think San Francisco has the best ones. The trash in the general waste bin still gets sorted and recycled off site. The specific plastics and metal bins are only to help them out a bit (hand sorting is expensive but effective). If people were willing to pay more, sorting all trash would increase the amount of material ultimately recycled.