Recycling
On this page, you will find information on how to sort your waste on campus and contribute to reducing the environmental footprint in your everyday life as a student.
When the University’s waste is sorted correctly, it can be used for new recycled material. Together, everyone can help to reduce the University’s environmental footprint in the long term.
In the video above you see the University’s sorting bins for waste.
There are sorting bins and waste containers for waste around the student areas on campus. These are for residual waste, food waste, plastic, paper packaging, coloured and uncoloured glass, deposit bottles and metal, for example.
What is sorted in which bin?
- In the plastic container are, for example, plastic lids from take-away packaging, plastic cutlery, plastic drinking yoghurt bottles and plastic candy wrappers sorted.
- In the paper container are, for example, milk and yoghurt cartons in paper, disposable paper cups, part of cardboard for takeaway food and paper bags sorted.
- In the bin for food waste are, for example, meat and fish residues, fruit and vegetable residues, bread scraps, coffee filters, tea bags sorted.
What can you do to contribute?
What you can do above all as a student is to sort your own waste into the right container. For example, keep in mind that:
- only food waste, coffee filters, coffee and tea bags should be placed in the green bags. Chewing gum and paper napkins are instead disposed in residual waste, and plastic in the plastic waste container.
- waste from takeaway food and the like generally consists of both plastic and paper as well as food waste that must be sorted in the correct waste containers.
- corrugated cardboard should not be thrown in the container for paper packaging, but should be sorted in a separate rack.
Give suggestions in helpdesk
You are welcome to suggest what can be improved with the collection of waste on campus. Feel free to also report in helpdesk if you see something that needs to be fixed, such as broken containers, or leakage or spillage of waste.
More information
Read more about the waste categories that are visible on the sorting bins at the University, and about sorting of waste on Sweden’s waste portal.
You can find the recycling stations around campus.
