Waste sorting in holiday homes
Residual waste
Residual waste is the waste that remains after you have sorted food waste, cardboard, paper, paperboard, glass, plastic, metal, textiles, electronics and hazardous waste. The residual waste is incinerated at the waste incineration plant and becomes district heating.
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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:
- Anything that is not reusable or a waste item contaminated to such a degree that it would be hard to recycle under its original fraction.
Examples:
- Pizza boxes
- Crisp and coffee bags (unless otherwise stated)
- Wrapping paper
- Soiled paper and cardboard
- Serviettes
- Nappies
- Sanitary towels
- Cotton buds
- Vacuum cleaner bags
- Ashes (carefully wrapped)
- Soot (carefully wrapped)
- Cigarette butts
- Sweepings (carefully wrapped)
- Cat litter
- Bedding from small pets (in a sealed bag)
- Animal excrement
FORBIDDEN
Principles:
- Recyclable waste
- Reusable waste
- Waste for special processing
Examples:
- Batteries
(at the recycling centre)
- Electronics
(at the recycling centre)
- Chemicals
(at the recycling centre)
- Light bulbs
(at the recycling centre)
- Gravel and soil
(at the recycling centre)
- Large quantities of expanded polystyrene
(at the recycling centre)
- Large dead animals
(ask the the municipality)
- Pressurised containers
(at the recycling centre)
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