PAPER PLASTICS

• Newspapers, weeklies, magazines, junk mail

• Letters and envelopes

• Brochures

• Copying paper

• Writing and drawing paper

Carton and cardboard:Sort out as cardboard

Gift wrap paper:Sort out as residual waste

Bags for cereals, fl our, and other food products:Sort out as residual waste

Books:Sort out and bring to the recycling centre

Gift wrap ribbon and bows:Sort out as residual waste

Pizza boxes:Sort out as residual waste

Egg boxes:Sort out as cardboard

• Plastic trays for meat, vegetables, fruit

• Plastic containers and cups for, for instance, yoghurt and ice cream

• Plastic bottles and jugs for, for instance, detergents, shampoo, juice

• Plastic foil wrap and plastic bags

• Toys such as buckets, spades, water guns

• Bubble wrap and plastic film

• Covers for DVDs and CDs

Styrofoam:Sort out as residual waste

Jugs, bottles, other containers marked with an orange hazard symbol: Sort out as hazardous waste

Rubber: Sort out as bulky waste

Whipping bowls and other melamine products: Sort out as residual waste

PVC such as rain gear, paddling toys, swim wings and plumbing tubes: Sort out as bulky waste

Plastics containing small electronic items: (items with a battery or connected to elec-tric current) Sort out as hazardous waste

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CARDBOARD HAZARDOUS WASTE

• Cardboard

• Carton from groceries such as tooth -paste, cereals, and similar

• Corrugated cardboard

• Cardboard rolls from tissue and toilet paper

• Egg boxes

• Batteries and accumulators

• Energy-saving bulbs and fluorescent tubes

• Insecticides and pesticides

• Chemicals residues

• Mercury thermometers

• Paints and varnish

• Waste oils

• Fertilisers

Note: You must always discard jugs, bottles, and other containers marked with an orange hazard symbol in the original packaging.

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Pizza boxes:Sort out as residual waste

Milk cartons: Sort out as residual waste

Styrofoam:Sort out as residual waste

At albertslund.dk/mitaffald you can see how to discard cardboard where you live.

Drug residues and drugs packaging: Return to pharmacy

Syringes: Return to pharmacy

Pressure bottles: Sort out and bring to the recycling centre

Self-igniting rags and liquids: Sort out and bring to the recycling centre

Sharps: Sort out and bring to the recycling centre

Fireworks and explosives: Sort out and bring to the recycling centre

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GLASS METAL

• Glass bottles

• Jam jars

• Preserve glass

• Wine bottles

• Drinking glasses

• Broken glass

• Preserve cans

• Beverage cans

• Metal lids, for instance from jars

• Bottle caps

• Capsules from tea light candles

• Pots and pans

• Foil trays

• Cutlery, scissors, cutting knives

• Aluminium foil

FOOD WASTE

• All food waste without packaging, cooked or raw

• Fruit and vegetables

• Meat, bones

• Egg shells

• Fish and sea fruit

• Coffee filters and tea bags

• Cut flowers

• Tissue paper

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Nappies, cotton swabs, single use hand towels: Sort out as residual waste

Pizza boxes: Sort out as residual waste

Milk and juice cartons: Sort out as residual waste

Garden waste: Sort out as garden waste

Cat litter, dog dropping bags, animal bedding: Sort out as residual waste, in a closed bag

Crystalware and glass arts objects: In hazardous waste box or to the recycling centre

China such as plates, cups, jugs: In hazardous waste box or to the recycling centre

Heat-resistant cookware: In hazardous waste box or to the recycling centre

Energy-saving bulbs: Sort out as hazardous waste

Broken glass swept from the fl oor: Sort out as bulky waste

Mirrors:Sort out as bulky waste

Metal containing electronic items: (items with a battery or connected to electric current): In hazardous waste box or to the recycling centre

Spray cans: Sort out as hazardous waste

Chips and coffee bags: Sort out as residual waste

Freezer and thermal bags: Sort out as residual waste

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• Milk and juice cartons

• Pizza boxes

• Chips and coffee bags

• Nappies and sanitary towels

• Vacuum cleaner bags

• Gift wrap paper

• Styrofoam

• Cat litter, dog dropping bags, animal bedding

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Batteries and energy-saving bulbs: Sort out as hazardous waste

Small electronic items: In hazardous waste box or to the recycling centre

Paper: Sort out as paper

Plastics: Sort out as plastics

Jugs, bottles, other containers marked with an orange hazard symbol:Sort out as hazardous waste

Plastics containing electronic items: (items with a battery or connected to electric current):

In hazardous waste box or to the recycling centre

Food waste: Sort out as food waste

Glass: Sort out as glass

Metal: Sort out as metal

Cardboard: Sort out as cardboard

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RESIDUAL WASTE