Food waste / Madaffald

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Food waste

Food waste is an important Danish waste category because it can be turned into useful resources such as biogas, compost and fertiliser. It includes leftovers, expired food, fruit and vegetable peelings, coffee grounds, coffee filters and eggshells.

From food waste to resources

When food waste is sorted correctly, it can be treated in biogas plants. The process produces renewable energy and leaves nutrients that can be used in agriculture. Packaging, napkins, cat litter and garden soil should not be sorted as food waste unless your local rules say otherwise.

Accepted

  • Food of all kinds, including leftovers and mouldy food
  • Coffee filters and tea bags
  • Eggshells
  • Small bones, for example from poultry
  • Cut flowers and herbs

Not accepted

  • Soil from potted plants (recycling centre)
  • Napkins (residual waste)
  • Pet bedding, cat litter and animal droppings (residual waste)
  • Baking paper and muffin cups (residual waste)

Waste items sorted as food waste / Madaffald

Aebleskive

Almond

Animal bone

Animal fat

Apple

Apple core

Aubergine

Avocado

Avocado stone

Baby food

Bacon

Banana

Banana peel

Basil

Beef

Bell pepper

Bird seed

Biscuits

Blood

Blueberries

Bone

Bouillon

Bread

Brown sugar

Butter

Butter packaging

Butter spread tub

Cactus

Cake

Cake leftovers

Candy

Cannabis

Canned tomato paste

Caramel

Carrot

Cat food

Caviar

Cheese

Cheese puffs

Cheese shrimp snack

Cheese snack

Cherry pit

Cherry stone

Chestnut

Chicken

Chicken bone

Chicken carcass

Chicken salad

Chips

Chives

Chocolate

Chocolate bar wrapper

Chocolate spread

Chopped tomatoes

Cinnamon

Cinnamon stick

Citrus fruit

Clementine

Cocoa powder

Coconut

Coffee

Coffee bean

Coffee filter

Coffee grounds

Coffee pod

Cold cuts

Compost

Cookie

Cooking fat

Cooking oil

Cooking oil for food

Cottage cheese

Courgette

Crayfish

Cream cheese

Cream cheese spread

Creme fraiche

Crispbread

Cucumber

Curried herring

Cut flower

Dairy products

Danish pastry

Date stone

Desiccated coconut

Dirty kitchen roll paper

Dough

Dressing

Dried flowers

Dropped fruit

Dry food

Dry pet food

Duck

Duck bone

Duck carcass

Duck fat

Edible nut

Egg

Egg salad

Egg white

Egg yolk

Eggshell

Falafel

Fallen fruit

Fallen leaves

Fat

Feta cheese

Fig spread

Fish

Fish and fish leftovers

Fish fillet

Flour

Flower bouquet

Flowers

Food

Food leftovers

Food waste

French fries

French fry

Fresh herb

Frozen food

Frozen food item

Fruit

Fruit bar

Fruit pit

Fruit stone

Frying oil

Garlic

Gelatine

Giant hogweed

Goat cheese

Grains

Grape

Grated cheese

Greek yoghurt tub

Ground coffee

Ham

Haribo sweets

Hemp

Herring

Honey

Houseplant

Hummus

Hyacinth bulb

Icing

Icing sugar

Infant formula

Invasive plant

Ketchup

Kitchen roll

Kitchen roll paper

Kiwi fruit

Lemon

Lemon mousse

Lemon peel

Lemon slice

M&Ms

Mackerel

Mackerel salad

Mango

Mango stone

Margarine

Marzipan

Marzipan ring cake

Mayonnaise

Meat

Meat bone

Meat bones

Meat sauce

Melon

Milk slice snack

Minced beef

Mozzarella

Muesli bar

Muffin

Mushroom

Nectarine

Nut shell

Oats

Offal

Old food

Olive oil

Olive stone

Onion

Open sandwich

Orange

Orange peel

Organ meat

Pancake

Parsley

Parsley sauce

Pasta

Pea

Pea pod

Peach

Peach stone

Pear

Pearl barley

Pepper spice

Pesto

Pesto jar

Pet food

Pineapple

Pistachio

Pistachio nut

Pizza

Plant cutting

Plum

Popcorn

Pork

Pork crackling

Pork meat

Potato

Potato peel

Potato salad

Potato starch

Prepared dog food

Pringles tube

Pumpkin

Raisin

Rapeseed oil

Raspberries

Raw meat

Red cabbage

Reeds

Remoulade

Remoulade bottle

Rice

Rice cake

Roast pork leftovers

Rose

Rosehip plant

Rotten food

Rotten fruit

Rye bread

Salad

Salami

Salmon

Salt

Sauce

Sausage

Sausage roll

Sea buckthorn

Senseo coffee pad

Shellfish

Shrimp

Shrimp cheese spread

Shrimp shell

Smoked pork loin

Smoothie

Soup

Spaghetti

Spareribs

Spice

Spice jar

Spoiled food

Sponge

Spring roll

Spruce branches

Strawberries

Sugar

Sunflower oil

Tea bag

Tea filter

Tea leaves with filter

Tea letter packet

Tomato

Tomato paste

Tuna

Vanilla

Vanilla pod

Vegetable

Vegetable peelings

Walnut

Walnut kernel

Watermelon

Weeds

Wet kitchen roll

Wet pet food

Wheat flour

Whey powder

Whipped cream

Whipping cream

Wilted flowers

Yeast

Yoghurt

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