46,000 tonnes of paper, plastic and metal are estimated to be recycled during Christmas and New Year. According to Ryding, we sort and hand in approximately four kilos per person for recycling.
– The Christmas period, which for us extends from Black Friday until New Year’s, is definitely a peak when it comes to packaging collection.
After the turn of the year, however, there is something new. The packaging collection will move from FTI to end up with the municipalities instead.
– Logistically, quite a lot is changing, but it is a change that we hope will not be noticeable at all for you who recycle. What applies to us who recycle is to keep recycling, notes Ryding.
“If it’s very busy – let it sit”
However, it is not always obvious when you are standing there with your Christmas rubbish, how to sort it out. Should the cork be unscrewed? Should the packaging be washed? Should the tape from the clappers be sorted?
– When it comes to wrapping paper, remove labels and gift strings. You fold it up, flatten it and hand it in for the paper collection.
It doesn’t matter if the tape is left on, says Ryding.
– Remove what you can easily. That is the principle when it comes to packaging collection in general. What you can separate easily, you remove. If it’s very busy – let it sit.
Into the garbage with the string
The gift string, on the other hand, does not count as a package and has a tendency to get tangled in the sorting machine.
– We don’t want that in the packaging collection. The cords should go directly into the household waste.
Something that also usually remains after the Christmas holiday are various different glass bottles. The cork must be unscrewed and left among metals and the bottle itself must be left in the glass recycling.
– You can have a look there! Some glass bottles have a deposit and then they must be left in the deposit system. Otherwise, it is the glass recycling.
Glass packaging must be emptied of its contents before being recycled, but does not need to be washed.
That’s how you do with the tealights
In the dark Christmas season, lots of tealights are used. Despite this, few people know how to sort the small metal scraps.
– It is very important to remove the wick holder from the tealight cup. They are different kinds of metals.
The heat candle cup is made of aluminum and the wick holder is made of steel and iron. Candles and marshalls do not count as packaging and must therefore go to the municipality’s recycling centre. Not to the recycling station.
If you are a little unsure about how to sort, Ryding advises to read the packaging.
– The vast majority of packaging has a small symbol on it, it’s there if you look for it. In the environmental room or at the recycling station there is the same small symbol and then you can match correctly.