Do you know that Paleolithic man already used containers for their food?? He used tree trunks, seashells, perforated rocks and animal skins. Then came the tableware made of metal, ceramic and glass vessels. In Roman and Greek times, a variant of the cardboard box had already emerged: the clay amphora. AND revolution came with glass production in the seventeenth century.
With the Industrial Revolution, a change of mind and the large glass jars that man needs were commercialized for the first time and first foods in metal tin containers. However, the turning point in the history of packaging was the invention of packaging. The first cardboard box in 1890 for the cereal box.
Corrugated cardboard is currently one of the most used packaging and cartons in the world for grouping, transporting, storing, displaying and selling consumer products.
The truth is that packaging has improvednot only in design, but also in its multiple forms and features. care and protection of objects and eat. What forces them to sort the containers by color to make them easier to recycle.
The truth is that we live surrounded by packaging and it is important among all of us that we all contribute to the recycling of packaging so that the world does not stop spinning. Recycling is one of the main engines that allows us today. waste becomes a resource again. That’s why it’s important to learn about recycling and know which containers go into each container.
Ecoembes helps you distinguish containers left in each container and thus avoiding common mistakes.
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HE yellow cap: Metal pots, briquettes and plastic containers only.
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This small containers they are also important. And they need to be put into the corresponding container. Small cardboard boxes, bottles or milk containers…
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This dirty containers: always to the corresponding container, blue, green or yellow and don’t worry about cleaning them.
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This product packaging Do not throw the products you consume on the street, on the mountain or on the beach in the first trash bin you see. Find the right container or save it for when you get home. Only then will it be recycled.
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in the bowl blue deposited cardboard and paper packaging, yes, also the packaging they bring to you the online order you’ve been waiting for.
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HE green is the container glass bottles (wine, cava, etc.), glass bottles (Colognes and perfumes) or glass food jars (jam, canning jars, etc.).
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would just stay brown cap where the organic matter will be stored and gray or remaining container where those who don’t have a place in the remaining containers on public roads are dumped.
In addition, Ecoembes has a smart assistant. 24 hours a day to resolve your doubts
Be a responsible citizen with your packaging and keep turning the world!