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

The Recycling Map groups 12,000 collection points for different recyclable materials throughout Switzerland. The app is useful to 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)
● Filter collection points by collected materials
● Detailed information concerning collection points: locality/address, opening hours, collected materials
● Get directions to collection points
● Possibility of submitting feedback concerning collection points (incl. photo upload)
● Favourites can be saved
● Overall view of all collected goods and detailed explanation of the different materials

Collected materials

● Used oil
● Aluminium packaging
● Batteries
● Electric devices office + entertainment
● Electrical household appliances
● EPS
● Unbroken glass bottles
● Glass
● Mineral waste
● Greenery waste
● Inert waste
● Cardboard
● Cork
● Plastic (other than EPS and recyclable plastic)
● Fluorescent lamps
● Metals
● Nespresso coffee capsules
● Paper
● Plastic milk bottles
● Recyclable plastic bottles
● Hazardous waste
● Bulky goods
● Sheet steel/tinplate packaging
● Textiles and shoes

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 on www.recycling-map.ch.