Wanted: Metal collector of the year
The Prix-Metallrecycling honors the three best metal collectors in Switzerland and aims to promote environmentally friendly behavior in dealing with metal packaging.
The Swiss are known as a collector of used packaging. This is just as true for metal packaging as for all other packaging. More than three kilos of aluminum cans, pet food trays, mustard tubes, coffee capsules and food cans are collected per inhabitant and year, or a total of 25,600 tons. To ensure that this trend continues, Igora and Ferro Recycling annually award the Prix-Metallrecycling to three exemplary Swiss metal collectors.
The new race for the most eager metal collectors starts now and lasts until May 31, 2017. The two recycling organizations Igora and Ferro Recycling are responsible for the race. In recognition and appreciation, they are rewarding the three best metal collectors in 2017 with 1,000 Swiss francs each and at the same time crowning them Swiss metal collecting champions.
Anyone can join
Metal collectors can quickly and easily participate in the race. Simply on the websites igora.ch or ferrorecycling.ch under Prix-Metallrecycling write in a few words how the empty metal packaging is collected and goes to recycling. Also sending an e-mail to info@igora.ch or a postcard to Igora or Ferro Recycling in Thalwil is possible. The following information is important: how many, how and where and which metal packaging is collected. In addition, the complete address with telephone and, where available, e-mail address should be listed. The closing date for entries is 31 May 2017.
Determination of the winners according to three criteria
A group of experts will select the most successful metal collectors from the entries. The potential winners score points for their initiative, enthusiasm and creativity in collecting metal packaging.
Last year, among other things, the Tüftelwerk in Lucerne was awarded. The open workshop for children places particular emphasis on experimenting and tinkering with aluminum and metal packaging - with creative and often astonishing results.
The other two winners were a trained recyclist who collects metal packaging from private households, restaurants, bars and companies every day by bicycle and trailer, thus returning four to five tons of metal to the material cycle every year, and a committed family who also carefully collects aluminum cans during walks.
