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⇒The grey container is for the rest of the waste not included in the other categories. ⇒The brown container is for organic waste such as food and gardening waste, as well as cork stoppers. ⇒The yellow container is for plastic packaging such as bottles, brics, cans and plastic bags. ⇒The blue container is for paper and cardboard. ⇒The green container is for glass: bottles and jars. The design and size of these containers varies according to the town where they are, since it is the responsibility of each municipality, but the meaning of each color is the same. Walking around Barcelona, as in so many other cities, we often find, next to the sidewalk and near apartment buildings and shops, a set of 5 containers of 5 different colors. If on your visit to Barcelona or any town in Catalonia or Spain, you are staying in an apartment, house or apartment, it is very likely that you will generate waste, so knowing how the separation works can be useful.
Recycle in spanish plus#
This fact, plus the desire to contribute my bit to the preservation of the environment, has moved me to write this article and to incorporate information about the recycling system used in Barcelona in my explanations to tourists. But I realized that there are many other things, also important, that work differently in each country, and one of them is the issue of recycling. As a guide I am used to explaining art, architecture, history, culture, traditions, gastronomy of my country. The fact that the containers aroused the curiosity of these Asian visitors made me think about it. Was it the design? Or perhaps the concept itself, that the city has at its disposal recycling bins. Even today I still don’t know very well what caught them the attention. I had never encountered this situation before.

A few years ago while on a guided tour of Barcelona with some Chinese customers who came to the city to attend a conference, I was surprised that at one point during the tour, while walking through the Eixample neighborhood, they began to take pictures of some rubbish bins.
