I am from a Scandinavian country, now living in Zürich and I continue to be flabbergasted by how complicated, disgusting, time-consuming and most of all, expensive it is to get rid of household garbage…! I live in a WG that recycles everything, and I must say it feels like a part-time job. I have to walk fifteen minutes to dispose plastic waste, then there is the cardboard and paper that has to be separated, and tied with a string as if it is a Christmas present, and the very worst part, organic waste!! Where I come from, we get bags for organic waste for free by the government. You put them in a bin in the kitchen, not on your balcony or your window sill, the bags won’t start de-composing because they are made of thick plastic and it never gets gross or smelly. Then there are the Züri bags, which cost a fortune so instead of taking the trash out whenever it feels necessary, they get filled to the brim even if it started to smell when it was half-full. Since neither myself or my flatmates have a lot of money, nobody wants to spend a lot of money on extra bags. I don’t understand why Switzerland do it this way, surely they have enough money to create a better system that is not outsourced to private corporations, to make it a less smelly and fly-infested experience for those of us that cannot afford to spend 50 chf a month on Züri-bags. How do Swiss people feel about this?? Do you all think it’s great to have to pay so much (with money, labor and time) for getting rid of an indispensable part of being alive? EDIT: I do not spend 50 bucks on Züri-bags a month and I do recycle everything. I meant that if I wanted to dispose of the bag as often as wanted, I would end up spending way too much money on them. submitted by /u/PuzzleheadedFly8359
Originally posted by u/PuzzleheadedFly8359 on r/Switzerland