Household Recycling

Packaging made out of glass should be collected in your recycling bin together with metal.

You should recycle all empty and clean glass jars and bottles without their lids. The metal lid should be put in the same bin as the glass, but they are a separate fraction.

Examples of Glass For Recycling

• Marmelade and jam
• Olives
• Mushrooms
• Artichokes
• Pickled beetroot and cucumber
• Red Cabbage
• Mustard
• Wine and spirits bottles.

To ensure a clean and healthy work environment make sure you've scraped the containers free from visible food remains.

You can put the following metal items in the recycle bin together with glass.

• Empty soda and beer cans (preferably crushed, as they take up less space this way)
• Tins, if scraped clean
• Aluminium trays, but only if scraped clean
• Bottle tops
• Jar lids
• Aluminium tea light candle cups (a small amount of candle wax is allowed)
• Clean aluminium foil (scrunched up).

To ensure a clean and healthy work environment make sure you've scraped the containers free from visible food remains.

Interesting Facts

We can save 90-97 % energy by recycling aluminium instead of extracting new aluminium.

Every year in Denmark alone we throw 13.500 tons of aluminium straight into the bin. That's aluminium enough to produce 5 million bicycles - almost one for every Dane!

You can put all your plastic bottles, tubs and containers in the recycle bin along with food and beverage cartons - just as long as they are empty and scraped clean.

Examples Plastics

• Laundry Detergent bottles (empty and rinsed once)
• Ketchup and mustard bottles
• Shampoo bottles
• Soft drink bottles
• Screenwash container
• Meat trays
• Biscuit trays and packaging foil
• Vegetable and fruit plastic trays and bags
• Flower plant pots free of dirt
• Plastic foil
• Plastic bags.

All of the above should be empty and scraped clean where possible.

You can also squeeze the air out of them to make more room in your recycling bin. If you pierce the container it's easier to do so.

If you collect little plastic bits and bobs for recycling, please put them in a bigger plastic container that you are recycling anyway.

To ensure a clean and healthy work environment make sure you've scraped the containers free from visible food remains.

Food and beverage cartons should be collected in your bin together with plastic.

Examples of food and beverage cartons:

• juice cartons
• milk cartons
• soup cartons
• tomato passata cartons.

You should recycle all empty your food and beverage cartons.

Examples Of Paper For Recycling

• Writing paper and envelopes
• Newspapers, magazines and advertising (as long as it free of food and dirt)
• Printed matter
• Thin carton, like cornflakes boxes (empty) and toilet paper rolls
• Post-it notes and receipts
• Cardboard boxes, serrated cardboard.

The Following Items Are Not Recyclable

• Dirty paper (goes in the residual waste bin)
• Pizza boxes (go in the residual waste bin)
• Used kitchen roll and paper napkins (they go either in residual waste, when soiled, or food waste, if they have been used in food preparation).

Confidential Documents

At all four recycling centres we have secure containers for confidential documents.