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Engelska Food waste Residual waste Plasticpackagings

Paperpackagings

Newspaper/ waste paper

Coloured glasspackagings

Clear glasspackagings

Metalpackagings

Examples of waste

Vegetable and fruit peelings, shellfish waste, pasta, bread crusts, teabags, withered flowers etc.

Diapers, cat litter, vacuum cleaner bags, envelopes, dishcloths, cotton buds, worn shoes, planting soil (small amounts) etc.

Sauce bottles, ice cream cartons, shampoo and balsam bot-tles, crisp and sweet packages, cooked meat trays, tooth-paste tubes, plastic bags, styrofoam packagings etc.

Milk, soured milk and cream packagings, ce-real boxes, egg boxes, detergent boxes, pizza cartons, wrapping paper, paper carrier bags etc.

Newspapers and magazines, cata-logues, paperbacks, advertising material, sheet paper etc.

Coloured glass bott-les and jars.

Clear glass bottles and jars.

Lids, caps, aluminium foil, tin cans, metal tubes etc.

What happends with the waste?

Food waste is sent to the biogas plant at Torsvik. The biogas is used as fuel for the city’s buses and local authority vehicles.

Sent to the Torsvik heating plant to generate district heating and electri-city for homes in the municipal area.

As part of the recycling process, soft plastics are separated from hard plastics and are then turned into new plastic. The plastic is used to make furniture, plastic bags, flower-pots etc.

Paper packagings are collected, sorted and baled. The bales are then taken to a paper mill. The material is sieved to remove any plastic or aluminium. The paper fibre is separated and recycled into new paper.

Newspapers are collected and taken to a recycling faci-lity where they are sorted and baled. The bales are then sent to a paper mill where they are used to produce new paper.

The glass is collec-ted and taken to a glassworks where it is crushed and sorted. The glass is used mainly for making new glass containers.

The glass is collec-ted and taken to a glassworks where it is crushed and sorted. Diffe-rent-coloured glass must not be mixed as this reduces the quality of the new glass.

Aluminium and other metal pac-kagings are sorted individually before the mate-rial is taken to a smelting plant to be made into new material.

Remember The bag must be closed by folding the top. Fill up to the marked line on the bag.

The plastic bags must be knotted.

Rinse the packa-gings.

Flatten the packagings before disposal.

Envelopes and ’post-it’ labels must be disposed of as residual waste.

Bottles and jars must be empty. Remove corks, caps and lids.

Bottles and jars must be empty. Remove corks, caps and lids.

Rinse the pack-agings before disposal.

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Source: www.ftiab.sewww.jonkopingenergi.se

SORTING GUIDE - how to sort your waste