From 1 January 2025, there was a requirement to separate textile waste from other garbage. In the past, there have been no requirements that textiles must be sorted out, which has raised criticism from, among other things, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
– The legislation is a way to use a valuable resource that causes great environmental and health impacts, especially when extraction of raw materials and production, has the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator Yvonne Augustssonsaid in a previous interview with News24.
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Since then, different municipalities have introduced special stations where different textiles such as clothing, home textiles and bags can be thrown away and then recycled.
In a municipality, interest has been a little too great.
“We see a huge interest in submitting textiles,” writes Karolina Wermeplanner at Örebro Municipality’s waste operations, in one Press release.
Genre image. Photo: Photographers Holmberg / TT. “Surprised”
In an interview with News24 says Lisa Karlssonplanner at Örebro municipality, that they were surprised by the amount of textile waste that came in.
– In the beginning we were a little surprised by the quantities they moved, but now we have got a good flow for the emptying, says Karlsson and continues:
– We are currently finding the right emptying rate in relation to the number of textile containers we have at our recycling centers. As they have looked in recent weekends, as we mainly get the large quantities on the weekends, we have had some textiles that have been high but we have been able to handle them at the beginning of the next week.
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“Four tons a week”
The amount of textiles that has been received has meant that the municipality in its press release urges Örebroare to think about before shopping for new clothes. You have got a lot of clothes so new that the patches remain.
After all, the collection and the emptying have gone well, says Karlsson. Since the law is still new, she believes that the volumes may go down in the future.
– We expect the volume to go down a bit but are prepared to receive about the quantities we receive right now, about four tons a week, she tells News24.
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