Waste collection

Sorting waste helps to protect the environment and save money. There are places to collect recyclable or polluting waste (paper, batteries, glass, cardboard, garden waste, aluminium, metal, textiles, used oils, etc.). This waste should not be placed in garbage bags.

PET bottles and other packaging can be returned free of charge to grocery stores.

Each municipality has a collection timetable or plan with the days and places to bring the different types of waste. This document is usually given out when you register in your new municipality.

It is absolutely forbidden to burn your waste or to leave it in the countryside or on the street.

Non-recyclable waste (household waste: food leftovers, greasy paper) should be placed in official garbage bags or in bags with a waste sticker.

The waste tax is already included in the price of the official bag or sticker. Each municipality has its own bags or stickers. You can buy them in local shops, shopping malls and at the town hall.

You can leave the garbage bag at the side of the road (or at a collection point) only on the pick-up day shown on the calendar. Or you can drop them off in moloks (half-buried cylindrical containers) at the times indicated on site.

It is forbidden to drop off bags outside these days and times.

You must obey the timetable.

In some buildings, there are containers for the waste of the residents of the building.

Some wastes are toxic or pollute nature. For example, paints, chemicals, batteries, electrical products, energy-saving lamps and bulbs (LEDs), also expired medicines.

This waste should not be placed in garbage bags.

You should take them back to the shop where you bought them, or to the pharmacy (for medicines). This is free of charge. The shops are obliged to take them back.

You can also take toxic waste back to the regional collection centres for household special waste in Delémont, Porrentruy and Saignelégier.