Waste sorting in holiday homes
Glass waste
Glass is a material that can be recycled many times. Whole bottles are cleaned and reused, while tinned glass and shards become new bottles and jars after remelting.
When you put glass in the recycling bin, it must be scraped clean and drip-free.
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National criteria-UK
To ensure that waste sorting is more or less the same throughout Denmark, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency has created the national criteria below.
PERMITTED
Principles:
- Glass with or without labels, plastic sleeves, etc.
- Glass regardless of colour
Examples:
- Glass bottles (with no deposit)
- Glass jars
- Glass packaging
- Drinking glasses
- Vitamin jars
- Glass shards from all the above
FORBIDDEN
Principles:
- Items containing undesirable substances that will give problems recycling
Examples:
- Porcelain (at the recycling centre)
- Sheet glass (at the recycling centre)
- Ceramic/stoneware (at the recycling centre)
- Chemical bottles at the recycling centre in the environmental box))
- Mirrors (at the recycling centre)
- Light bulbs (at the recycling centre in the environmental box)
- Fireproof glass, e.g. ovenproof glassware (at the recycling centre)
- Medicine jars with leftover medicines (take to a pharmacy)
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