Share and reuse
Rent, borrow, give away, trade or buy used instead of always buying new. This will save you money and reduce your climate impact.
How do we use what we already have? Taking advantage of existing resources instead of producing and consuming new ones is a key to living sustainably.
Reduce the amount of waste
Everything we consume becomes waste, sooner or later. We can reduce the amount of waste by consuming more sustainably, for example:
- Borrow
- Rent
- Repair
- Reuse
- Buy products that last longer
- Buy and sell second-hand
Plan your purchases
We can also plan our purchases, which has great results for the environment. There are some things that you can always keep in mind, no matter what or where you shop.
- Choose eco-labeled options, such as Krav, Svanen or Bra miljöval. If you can't find any eco-labeled options, ask for them.
- Look out for the hazard symbols that show the danger of various chemicals. They show that a product may be dangerous to your health or the environment.
- Choose high quality if you can. It is often worth buying something of slightly higher quality that is more expensive but lasts longer.
- Find out if the product you want to buy contains chemicals from the EU's candidate list. As a consumer, you have the right to know and the store must give you an answer within 45 days.
To simplify questions about chemicals, the Swedish Consumers' Association and the Swedish Chemicals Agency have a special app:
The Chemicals App, the Swedish Consumers' Association website
Sharing creates environmental benefits
By sharing things, places and services with each other, environmental benefits are created, while we save money. Sharing can be:
- Lending out your tools
- Renting out your car
- Arranging a clothes swap day
- Putting up a notice with things to donate in the stairwell or in the neighbourhood
- Finding the nearest second-hand organization and leaving your things there
- Selling or donating on a sales site
Sustainably consume, the website of Sweden's consumers
Pop-up recycling
At Pop-up recycling you can leave small furniture, textiles, electronics and environmentally hazardous waste. You can leave things for both recycling and reuse.
Pop-up recycling in Stockholm, Stockholm Water and Waste website
Recycling in Skärholmen, Rinkeby and Roslagstull
Recycling is the place that gives used objects a longer life. Here, things can be handed in for reuse or recycling. In the lending workshop you can repair or fix something new. Or pick up and find someone else's discarded things.
Recycling in Skärholmen, Stockholm Water and Waste website
Recycling in Rinkeby, Stockholm Water and Waste website
Recycling in Roslagstull, Stockholm Water and Waste website
Borrow at the Stockholm City Library
The city's libraries are open meeting places where everyone is welcome. Here you can borrow books, newspapers, films and audiobooks. The libraries also invite you to various events all year round.