Sorting guide
The right bag makes the whole route count
TOTE saves you the trip, but recycling starts with your sorting at home. Sort well, leave the bags at the door or hand them to the courier, and every pickup has a real destination.
Yellow
Blue
Green
Each colour has a job
Use these lists as a quick check before closing each bag.
Yellow ecopoint
Plastic, metal and drink cartons
Accepted here
- Plastic bottles, containers and packaging
- Cans, tins and clean aluminium foil
- Milk and juice cartons
- Plastic bags and empty aerosols
Keep out
- Toys, toothbrushes or non-packaging plastic
- Batteries, cables or small electronics
- Food waste or very dirty packaging
Blue ecopoint
Paper and cardboard
Accepted here
- Newspapers, magazines and office paper
- Envelopes and clean paper bags
- Flattened cardboard boxes
- Clean cardboard packaging
Keep out
- Greasy pizza boxes or paper with food
- Used napkins, tissues or toilet paper
- Thermal receipts
Green ecopoint
Glass packaging
Accepted here
- Glass bottles
- Jars and food glass containers
- Glass flasks and preserving jars
- Glass without caps, corks or lids
Keep out
- Mirrors, window glass or crystal
- Pyrex, ceramics or crockery
- Light bulbs and lamps
Common mistakes
Small fixes that prevent a bad bag
Most sorting errors are easy to avoid once you know the pattern: packaging goes by material, dirty waste stays out, and special waste has its own point.
Drink cartons combine cardboard, plastic and aluminium, so they belong in the yellow ecopoint.
Empty and drain packaging before recycling. Washing everything wastes water and is not required.
Empty the paper or glass into the matching ecopoint. The plastic bag itself goes to the yellow ecopoint.
If paper or cardboard is greasy, wet or full of food, keep it out of the blue ecopoint and use general waste.
Use the pilhão for batteries, the oleão for cooking oil, textile containers for clothes, and WEEE collection points for small electronics.
Ready to make sorting easier at home?
Choose a plan, separate each fraction, and TOTE takes the bags to the right ecopoint.