User:Liou/Waste management

Different kinds of materials

Things we keep which might be considered trash elsewhere

reason may be up for debate

• Egg cartons
• candle butts
• soap bar remainings
• package filling material (aka house filling material)
• kitchen sponges

Black bin

• Each emptying costs 10€. Please consider some things when using it.

Yes

• small amounts of broken porcellain and construction waste
• smaller sized glued or painted wood
• dry paint
• floor sweepings

No

• bulky stuff
• metal (better collect and sell)
• stuff that can also go in other bins
• textile that's not super destroyed

Recycling places

Kell Wertstoffhof Wurzen

• public recycling place where they take a wide variety of stuff
• opening hours: tu-fr, 09:00-17:00
  • also open @2nd saturday of each month, where they also take hazardous material (Schadstoffmobil)
• most services here are free for Wurzeners
  • they could ask for a proof of residency
  • there's a limit on how much you can dump (something like 2 m³)

What they take and how they want you to seperate

• Bulky waste/Sperrmüll
  • glued wood, pressboard panels, tapestry, bulky plastic stuff
• Electric waste/cable stuff without batteries or solar panels
• Batteries, accumulators
• Scrap Metal (better sell it at TiAx)
• Textiles

TIAx Transport und Recycling

• place to sell mainly scrap metal (mixed and or sorted)
• they say prices are based on the daily value.
  • mixed scrap metal: 128€ per ton (03/2025)
• opening hours: mo-fr, 07:00-12:00 & 13:00-16:00