Sorting Your Waste In Ten Types of Waste

It is a legal requirement that we sort our waste more and better. And you have to do that both when you are at work and at home. It is important that we get better at sorting and recycling so that we take care of the planet's resources.

Today, 59 % of our household waste is recycled. With the new waste scheme, we expect to be able to recycle as much as 70 % of household waste by the time we reach 2030. In doing so, we emit less CO₂ and achieve that even more waste is recycled into new products.

We have to sort the waste in order to utilize the resources in them, but it is even more important that we become better at producing less waste. Therefore, the sorting into 10 types of waste is only part of our goal for the coming years, where, in addition to reducing the amount of residual waste, we must also do something about the 800 kg of waste every citizen produce each year. 

Everyone will need to have 3 bins:

• Bin no. 1: Partitioned bin for food waste in one side and residual waste in the other.
• Bin no. 2: Partitioned bin for both hard and soft plastics and food and beverage cartons plus glass and metal on the other side.
• Bin no. 3: Undivided bin for paper and cardboard.

If you live in an apartment or share your waste stations you will have so sort your waste into five separate containers.