Every person is obliged, pursuant to law, to manage waste and dispose it only the way as established in the Act. (Pursuant to Section 12 (1) of the Act No. 185/2001 Code.)
According to the valid Ordinance of the Capital City of Prague No. 24/2001 Code municipal waste in the City of Prague shall be sorted into components as follows:
At present pilot projects of the separated collection of composite packages for beverages, like TetraBrick type, and the separated collection of biological waste are tested.
PAPER AND CARDBOARD
| RIGHT | WRONG |
|---|---|
| newspapersářčáář journals and magazines exercise books office paper advertisement leaflets books - without laminated covers brochures paper boxes - flattened corrugated cardboard clean paper packages clean paper bags |
paper clips and staples greasy or other way contaminated paper paper handkerchiefs and towels paper diapers carbon paper (copying paper) waxed paper, paraffin paper tracing paper, velum tarred paper composite packages (beverage boxes) |
GLASS
| RIGHT | WRONG |
|---|---|
| Glass, clear and coloured (unless a separated collection of clear glass is organised at the locality) Non-returnable glass bottles for beverages Large glass cullet Table glass Glass vases, glasses, boxes, etc. |
mirrors wire glass automobile glass ceramics and porcelain bulbs incandescent, fluorescent, and discharge lamps television screens and computer monitors vials for drugs |
PLASTICS
| RIGHT | WRONG |
|---|---|
| Compressed PET bottles with detached caps Clean polyethylene (igelit) bags and small bags Clean cups for foodstuffs (i.e. for yoghurts) Clean freezer (thin polypropylene) bags Flushed plastic containers for detergents Polystyrene |
contaminated plastic containers rubber PU foams cables PVC pneumatics linoleums and other floorings textile of synthetic fibre vials for drugs composite packages (beverage boxes) |
BULKY WASTE
| RIGHT | WRONG |
|---|---|
| Old furniture Carpets and linoleums Old skis, snowboards, bicycles Large mirrors Washbasins, sinks and toiler bowls |
refrigerators television sets and computer monitors incandescent, fluorescent, and discharge lamps automotive accumulators other hazardous waste |
HAZARDOUS WASTE
| RIGHT |
|---|
| batteries, accumulators containers for aerosols (sprays) chemical preparations for gardening lubricating oils and greases solvents, thinners, and paints drugs and thermometers acids and hydroxides adhesives, glues, and resins detergents (degreasing agents) photochemicals pesticides (preparations of insecticides, rodenticides, herbicides and weed killers, and mould control preparations) incandescent, fluorescent, and discharge lamps |
MIXED WASTE
Mixed waste, of course, shall include things and materials, which cannot be sorted into other categories. Yet one should keep in mind that if a yoghurt cup is, from time to time, dropped into mixed waste it does not mean so much as if the mixed waste is contaminated with any hazardous waste as, for instance, only one AA size battery.
BEVERAGE BOXES
| RIGHT | WRONG |
|---|---|
| All boxes for beverages, that means from milk, dairy products, juice, wine, and other foodstuffs | Other packages for beverages (of glass, plastics, and tins) Boxes for beverages contaminated with hazardous materials (for example, if they are used for painting, lacquering, gluing, etc.). Boxes for beverages, which are not empty. |
BIOLOGICAL WASTE
| RIGHT | WRONG |
|---|---|
| Cut grass windfall fruit (interlaid with grass and cuttings of bush) cuttings and small branches of bush soil from flowers without flower pots weeds room plants foliage (without street litter) waste from fruit and vegetables (cuttings from potatoes, carrots, leftovers of apples, etc.) eggshells peels from citruses coffee and tea sediments (including the filter), tea bags flower pots made of cardboard and peat |
used bedding from small livestock and household pets diapers bags from vacuum cleaners cigarette buts coal ash collected street litter remains of various sauces, spreads, mayonnaise salads oils bones |
