Waste sorting tour

On this tour we will visit Dekra, a sorting site for metal and paper. It is very exciting to learn how the metal and paper waste is handled and prepared for the next step. The site is running by gas.

We will start in the collection yard, then the metal packaging sorter and finally the paper sorter. All the commodities can be seen in the yard, including some big containers for TV screens and PC monitors, that are sorted and transported to other sites. Residual waste and plastic is transported to a refuse disposal plant. It will be shown how the truck drivers are able to handle and sort big amounts of raw material.

In the big halls we will see the sorting line for metal waste, where iron cans are separated from aluminium cans and sent on for recycling. We will continue to the separated paper sorting line, where the paper is sorted into different types of paper and pressed into bales for transport to the paper mill.

The waste management system in Prague can be explained, f. ex. the decisions about how to handle the waste. It is also possible to learn about the waste transportation system all over Prague.