How to properly recycle a cava or wine bottle
Do you recycle cava and wine bottles correctly?
If you just visualized yourself throwing the entire bottle into the glass container, you're not recycling correctly. At least, not completely. And the rest of the items? Do you remove the label and the capsule? And the muzzle, the cava plate and the cork, what do we do with that?
From the production of the individual elements that make up a bottle to its recycling, a environmental impact which will differ in its degree depending on the material used in each case and how it can be recycled. One of the things we can do as citizens is to minimize one of these impacts by correctly recycling each of the elements we find in a bottle.
Glass and label, together or separate?
In the bottles of wine or cava , the most normal thing is to deposit the glass bottle in the green container , where it will later go to the sorting plant. In this, all the elements that are not glass and therefore cannot be recycled will be selected. Some of them, such as labels , make this process difficult since many of them are they are stuck to the glass and they take away some pieces that can no longer be reused. That is why, as far as possible, before throwing the bottle in the green container, we will remove the label. And where will it go? Unfortunately, this cannot be recycled and we will have to deposit it in the gray container that corresponds to leftovers or waste.
Where to recycle cork stoppers
We all know how to recycle cork. Cork is a natural and biodegradable material that is obtained from the bark of cork oak trees. Corks are made up of only one material, so recycling them is very easy. And where do we throw them? It will go to organic , in the brown container.
And what happens if we leave the wine or cava cork on the glass bottle and throw it all in the green container? Unfortunately, if the cork is made of natural cork, it cannot be recycled at this plant.
Correct recycling of the muzzle, the cava plate and the capsule
Another of the most common mistakes we make when recycling a bottle of cava is not removing the capsule from the neck. If we make a mistake, depending on its material, it can be recovered and recycled at the glass treatment plant, but this is not always the case. The best thing we can do is remove it from the bottle and recycle it correctly, we will throw it in the light packaging container, the yellow one. There, and again depending on its material (aluminum, tin, plastic or if it is a mixture of aluminum and plastic) it will be separated and its recycling determined. On the other hand, the cava plate and the muzzle are also recyclable elements and we can deposit them in the same container for light packaging.
