There are a whole series of rules and requirements that determine how you should sort and dispose of different types of waste. At the turn of the year, for example, it became law that all textile waste must be collected and recycled separately from other waste.
“The government has decided to require separate collection of textile waste. This is a step towards a more circular handling of textiles in Sweden and means, among other things, that municipalities must collect household textile waste separately,” the government writes on its website.
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In the same way, batteries should be sorted separately and handed in, as electrical waste, at recycling stations.
“Batteries can contain mercury, cadmium and lead – substances that cause great harm if released into nature,” it says on Sopor.nu which is a collaborative project between, among others, Waste Sweden and El-Kretsen.
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How to store used batteries
But if it is the case that you cannot get away immediately to hand in your used batteries, you need to think about how you store them.
The Swedish Public Safety and Emergency Management Agency (MSB) recommends, for example, that you tape over the poles of used batteries. You must also make sure that you do not have anything flammable nearby.
“Do not store anything flammable (such as trash, paper and plastic) together with the batteries. It may be appropriate to store them in a glass jar with a lid,” writes the authority.
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And it is important that it is glass, they emphasize.
“A metal box risks conducting electricity and a plastic box can melt if there is heat generation.”
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