Separate waste collection

The Slovenian economy “produces” over 600,000 tons of waste each year, while the quantity produced annually in the European Union comprises two billion tons of waste. Although the quantity of waste in developed nations is still growing, the attitude towards waste is changing. Waste is namely no longer garbage, belonging to landfills, but today represents potential for reuse and recycling or at least energy recovery.

Everybody can participate in waste recycling process by joining our big family dedicated to separate collection. Thus, only wastes that cannot be recycled or reused will end up at landfill. This is also stipulated by EU legislation also stipulates this, which requires the EU Member States to decrease the amount of wastes disposed of at landfills each year.

Snaga enables the separate collection of:

• paper and cardboard, glass and packaging (kerbside collection),
• biowaste (brown containers door-to-door),
• bulky waste (door-to-door or collection centre),
• hazardous waste (mobile container or collection centre),
• waste electrical and electronic equipment (collection centre),
• residual waste (black or grey containers door-to-door),
• special waste (collection centre).

Snaga hands over collected waste to authorised companies which ensure their processing. There are 31 companies registered for the collection of paper and glass, 30 for plastic and metal, 28 for batteries and accumulators and 28 for the collection of biological and kitchen waste. As far as processing companies go, 8 are involved with paper processing, one with glass processing, six with the processing of biological kitchen wastes, three with plastics and two with metal.