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Packaging and newspapers

Are you unsure how different things should be sorted when you throw them away? Here you get tips on how different types of waste and materials should be sorted.

When you recycle, your packaging can be made into new products. This way both material and energy is being saved.

As a private person, you can drop off packaging from your household at a recycling station. There are containers for plastic, paper, glass, metal and newspapers. The recycling stations are only for household packaging.

Items that can be used again are handed in to the recycling section found at each recycling centre.

Leave waste and recycling here

Here you will find all addresses, opening hours and places where you as a private person can drop off bulky waste, environmentally hazardous waste, electrical waste and recycling.

Find one of the city's approximately 250 recycling stations or file a fault report on Stockholm Water and Waste website.

This is how you sort your waste.

The sorting guide, Stockholm Water and Waste website

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