Food waste with packaging

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Allowed

  • Discarded meat products, fish, diary products, fruit, vegetables etc. with original sales packaging
  • Vegetable cuttings/peelings
  • Food and spread leftovers
  • Bread and cakes
  • Soups, sauces and porridge
  • Sugar
  • Long shelf-life groceries
  • Soft drinks, beer and wine
  • Eggshells and coffee grounds
  • Coffee filters
  • Tea bags

Disallowed

  • Wooden crates and pallets
  • Cardboard boxes
  • Crackle bags (thin plastic bags)
  • Other plastic bags
  • Plastic trays and buckets
  • Empty tin cans and glasses
  • Flamingo
  • Other outer packaging
  • Iron and metal
  • Textiles e.g., cloth
  • Strapex
  • Burnable waste (residual waste)

Container solutions for food waste with packaging

Food waste with packaging is collected using different collection systems depending on logistics and the amount of waste. We typically collect food waste with packaging in: