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Waste sorting in holiday homes

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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.

Pictogram in three languages with Residual waste

  

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)

Find the nearest recycling station

If you have more residual waste than you can fit in the garbage bin, you can also take your residual waste to a recycling station.

 

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