Waste sorting in holiday homes

Metal

Metal is a resource that can be recycled many times over. Cans and other metal are melted down into new metal.

When you put metal in the recycling bin, it should be scraped clean and drip-free.

National criteria

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:

Small metal objects
Items that mainly consist of metal (e.g. with small plastic parts can be handled)

Examples:

Food cans
Beer and soft drink cans with no deposit
Caps and lids
Night light holders
Pots and pans
Cutlery
Nails and screws
Taps and mixer taps
Empty coffee cartridges
Aluminium foil
Aluminium trays

FORBIDDEN

Principles:

Items containing hazardous substances that will give problems recycling
Black metal (at the recycling centre)

Examples:

BBQ gas bottles
(at the recycling centre)
Gas bottles
(at the recycling centre or return to the place of purchase)
Spray cans
(at the recycling centre)
Metal with electronics
(at the recycling centre)
Metal with batteries
(at the recycling centre)
Coffee cartridges with coffee in
(in your garbage bin as residual waste)
Large pressurised bottles/containers
(at the recycling centre or return to the place of purchase)
Metals with chemicals
(at the recycling centre)
Needles from insulin pens
(take to a pharmacy)