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Shampoo and detergent bottles: how to dispose of it in Korea

Empty the product and rinse residue from the container.

Plastic packaging

How to dispose of it

  1. Empty the product and rinse residue from the container.
  2. Remove the pump, cap and detachable label. Keep parts made from different materials separate from the bottle.
  3. Place the cleaned body in the appropriate plastics collection. Check the material and accepted stream for each removed part.

Before you put it out

  • An inseparable pump containing a metal spring is different from a single-material plastic bottle. Check the local general-waste guidance for the pump.
  • Do not put detergent bottles in the dedicated water-and-drink PET stream. Consider reusing a suitable container before discarding it.

Sources & local guidance

Prepared by Pixelone, the developer of Korea Recycle Guide. Follow your municipality and building's current instructions when they differ from this general guide.

Guide reviewed: . This is not the source dataset's update date.

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