Find out about the benefits of the brown container
Why separate organic waste from all other waste?
Sorted collection of organic waste helps transform this waste, which until now had ended up in the rubbish tip, into recoverable resources (fertilizer and energy). Sorting organic waste is an essential step to take if we want to increase rates of recycling and reach the target set for us by the European Union: recycle 60% of municipal waste by 2030.
Recycling organic waste helps us to close the island’s organic material cycle, without depending on outside assistance to manage this waste.
Putting organic waste in the new brown container is a simple gesture that helps to transform waste into resources that make our island more sustainable.
What can we recycle?
Fruit peels and other food scraps
Fish bones
Plants
Egg shell
Used napkins and kitchen roll
Tea and coffee
Deposit in the brown container:
Food scraps such as fruit peels, fish bones, plants, egg shells and coffee dregs; and used napkins and kitchen roll, tea and coffee. Garden waste, wine corks.
Do not deposit in the brown container:
Non-organic waste
Ceramic items, nappies, cigarette butts, wet wipes, cotton buds, pet litter, hair, dirt, personal care waste, excrement, etc.
Use compostable bags!
Organic material includes all waste from human beings (animals and plants) that we generate in our homes, businesses and restaurants. Above all, leftover food and remains of small plants.
Microorganisms help them to biodegrade easily, which means that they can be used to produce compost and biogas if they are collected separately from other waste.
Organic waste is the most important fraction of waste because it represents 40% of the municipal waste
we generate in Ibiza.
And then… off it goes to Ca Na Putxa
Organic waste will be taken to the new Ca na Putxa organic waste material sorting and processing centre.
Organic waste material is processed at this centre (brown container), sorting selective collection packaging (yellow container) and sorting waste into bulk and all other waste (grey container).
Thanks to this new Ca Na Putxa waste processing centre, a 50% reduction in the receipt of waste in the controlled waste deposit is expected.
Organic waste material undergoes a biomethanisation process at the Ca Na Putxa facilities. This process:
First, transforms organic waste into biogas, a high-quality fuel that can be used to generate electricity, and second, into compost: a natural fertilizer used in agriculture and gardening.
This means that until now the waste that had ended up in the controlled waste deposit (dump), will now become a recoverable resource on the very island.
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