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A recycling or recycling center (also Abfallwirtschaftshof, yard or sorting loop in Austria crap place) is a waste management facility of the public waste authorities, private institutions or associations for the purpose of collecting and forwarding of waste and recyclables from households and small businesses to recovery or disposal facilities. The Recyclable materials collection concept of Recyclinghofs belongs to the so-called delivery systems, in contrast to the Holsystemen eg the yellow bin. To dispose of recyclables are brought itself to the recycling yards from the waste holder.

The role and functions

A recycling center is usually from a paved area, are situated on the containers for separate collection. The main waste components that are adopted depending on site conditions, bulky waste, scrap wood, scrap metal, green waste, construction waste, appliances, cardboard and paper, glass, old clothes, old paints, fluorescent lamps, starter batteries, etc.

Recycling centers are facilities that are subject to the rules of the Federal Pollution Control Act, according to which the operator has to prevent damage to the environment and humans by the plant's emissions by suitable means or decrease. Also applies, in addition to a number of other laws, the Recycling and Waste Management Act, according to which the waste may be best separated and priority avoided, recovered it and then eliminated only. The goal is to recover resources through recycling and to feed back into the production cycle. Some operators of recycling centers give so useful articles again to the needy from or operate their own cutting and sorting operations. The waste is therefore continue to be used elsewhere or there are new products recovered by recycling. The goal is always to reduce the amount of waste.

Some types of waste are free of charge and for some charges or fees are charged. Due to logistical conditions, such as pick-up rhythms of the transporter or the space available for containers, maximum amounts are defined per delivery. Sometimes also the maximum dimensions of an object are limited. This depends on the assumption conditions of the recovery or disposal facility. As an example may be mentioned here, the diameter of trees, which can not be processed having a large diameter by the use of the recycler shredding. For this purpose, other recycling methods must be found.

Recycling centers are usually offered in a community in addition to the established dustbins and rubbish - street collection. The catchment area of ​​each facility is located in Germany usually at 50,000 households and a delivery radius of 15 km. These collection points for disposal of waste exists in Germany. In Berlin alone, can be found over 20 recycling centers, where the BSR (BSR ) is considered the largest municipal waste disposal in Germany.

Assessment

Benefits

The Recyclinghofkonzept as a drop-off system offers several advantages over Holsystemen:

• A salient feature is that recyclables will be issued at the time when they are incurred. In Holsystemen the valuable materials may need to be stored at home until a pick-up or emptying is performed. This may entail may spatial, olfactory and hygienic about deterioration.
• The sorting quality can possibly be better than the recycling of industrial sorting, as all recyclables are manually sorted. Usually made ​​less missed shots, as the disposal of waste is usually supervised in the container provided by trained personnel or even re-sorted. Due to the improved purity lower disposal costs are possibly due at disposal, so that the fees or charges may be reduced (eg waste wood or waste paper).
• On a recycling of the waste of the customer can be separated at a location in a larger number of waste fractions. In the pick-up system less waste fractions are offered.
• Another decisive advantage by recycling firms is the higher data security. Important documents, such as records or x-ray images can be disposed of directly, without that they stay until they are collected in the trash, where they are accessible to third parties.

Disadvantages

• Bring systems have the disadvantage that the waste from the waste holder itself to a location (eg waste disposal facility or recycling ) must be transported. Thus immobile persons are excluded. Elderly, disabled or people without their own vehicles are usually not able to participate due to distance on Recyclinghofkonzept.
• Recycling centers are only open at certain times of the day, many of which are in time conflict with working hours professional.
• The sorting at a recycling can be quite costly.

A good and well-established alternative to recycling centers provide collection systems of waste disposal service dar. Whether private or public sector - this example, transport large quantities of waste or bulky waste from. This can be either electronic waste, such as washing machines or unserviceable or scrap cars waste containers in which the waste is collected. The waste holder is no longer tied to opening times of the recycling centers or to overcome a distance to the recycling center. With the disposal facility waste and collection date can be arranged individually.