Recycling
ARA organises and finances the collection, sorting and recovery of packaging waste throughout Austria. Together with our partners, we provide households and businesses with a countrywide and well-developed collection infrastructure as well as convenient and cost-efficient waste management solutions that facilitate efficient collection and environmentally friendly recovery.
We provide consumers with around 1.8 million bins for the collection of waste packaging made of paper, plastic, metal and glass. In addition, we organise a kerbside collection service for packaging waste (yellow bag/yellow bin) for 1.6 million households.
Every year, more than one million tonnes of packaging and waste paper are collected separately this way. Around 90 % of the packaging waste is sent for material recovery and turned into new products. The rest is utilised as a valuable industrial fuel or converted into energy (district heating).
The separate collection and recovery of packaging waste in Austria saves more than 500,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. This corresponds to around 6 % of the annual emissions caused by all passenger cars registered in Austria.