European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pope 20 the 5tar5 and stripes wednesday september 10, 1930 Modem living waste containers for bottles Are within easy reach for four out of every five Swiss. By Hanns Neuerburg associated Pressw Hen party guests have gone their Swiss hosts Start sorting Mil the empty bottles to nuke sure icy icon 1 wind up in inc garbage. When they have finished Iligir breakfast and read the newspaper nest morning the papers arc added to a pile of hem in the basement and the aluminium i la of the Yogurt cup goes into a special Bon kept in the  Box takes spent batteries of the a rival Wall clock or the pocket radio. And then the housewife Rocs perhaps upstairs to prepare surplus clothes for pick up which is Lone twice annually in each of the 2,959 Swiss communities. International savings hints statistics suggest slut the Swiss re the world s most Economy minded people. They also arc International recycling Cham pions. Take the bodies there Are Many in wine and Beer Loving Switzerland. Most of them Are returned to bottling plants through dealers because the bottles carry deposits usually 50 centimes 30 . Cents. The throwaway bottles Are collected in special Public containers neatly separating them by Glass colors Green Brown and while. The containers arc within easy reach for four out of every five Swiss and More Are being set up by City and Village  Lake the paper Call stacked bundles of old news papers and magazines line inc streets in Many Swiss towns and villages twice a month awaiting pick up by trucks sent by commercial operators or non profit organizations. Or household aluminium waste Volunteer groups Are increasingly Active in Many parts of Switzerland to col led it. Several communities have opened special   any radio or electrical goods shop is � collecting Point from which they Are shipped Back a factories for possible recycling. And the surplus clothes yellow plastic bags Are distributed every is months to Swiss households with an Appeal to give to Charity clean but no longer worn dresses suits and shirts. I know of similar drives in a few Oiher countries said beat Alder an official of inc Swiss National red Cross which coordinates clothing collection by six Wel fare organizations. But i know of no country where it extends to every  about 7,500 Loos of second Hud clothe an collected annually. Wsul or a Ted Wear goes brio a Clef shipments to third world countries or sold Mcmond hand. About 5,000 torn arc reprocessed industrially or recycled. Proceeds go to Charity. Charity Benefit from other recycling efforts too. In the first five months of the year am newspapers collected in Zurich alone earned it a net 45,000 francs s27.800. The Money was divided among a variety of welfare groups ranging from the paraplegics association to a helping Henrj Telephone. The association of Swiss paper manufacturer jays that of the about i million metric tons of paper consumed in Switzerland last year 405,000 tons returned to the Industry. Recycling has increased the waste paper share in the material for paper production from an aver age 30 percent to 39 percent in the Pas ten years saving the Timber equivalent of a 25,000-acre Forest. Newsprint include a waste paper share of 10-15 percent according to the association. We Are among the Best recyclers in the world says association spokesman Ernst Baumannn. Swiss Glass recycling a also tops by International Stan Dar soaring from 1.9 kilograms 4.2 pounds per in habitant in 1973 to 12.s kilograms 28,2 Pound last year a result that no other country has even come near to according to a Survey published by Vetro pact the biggest commercial recycler. This Means. That 37 percent of All Glass consumed in Switzerland u eventually melted for reuse reducing the Industry s Energy consumption by up to 22.5 percent. Foreign study groups visiting the Vetr Opack plants have included americans japanese and East europeans. Fastest growth rates Are registered by the save alumni num drive pushed by ecology minded Volunteer group they predict they will collect nearly 100 ions this year or about seven times a much As in 1979. The total Swiss Industry output is 100,000 metric ions of which about 10,000 torn arc recycled scrap chiefly from manufacturer. The volunteers say that although the 100 Lonj rep resent  a fraction the recycled household aluminium waste would reduce the Burden on the environment by 30 tons of Carbon monoxide and 1.2 tons of equally toxic Sulphur dioxide apart from the saving of Energy. But Long experts Are skip tool about his Dree. Cleaning one Gram lid of Yogurt cup with hot Rater and driving Lay 100 lids o be nearest collect ing Point causes More pollution and coals More Energy Una shared or erred one Industry notice who re queued anonymity. 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