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How should butter tub be sorted?
Search for an item and see which Danish waste category it should be sorted into. Try pizza box, coffee filter or battery.
Butter tub should be sorted as:
Plastic
Plastic tray and plastic lid
Plast
Cardboard
Cardboard sleeve, if removable
Pap
Residual waste
Piece of foil
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About this item
Empty the butter tub as well as you can; rinsing is unnecessary. Sort the plastic tub and any plastic lid as plastic. Remove a cardboard sleeve and sort it as cardboard. Sort the foil seal as residual waste.
If the category is not available locally
If your municipality does not collect this category at your home, you can do this.
Plastic
Alternative: Municipal recycling centre, local collection point or shared collection station. Do not automatically use residual waste.
Cardboard
Alternative: Municipal recycling centre, local collection point or shared collection station. Do not automatically use residual waste.
Residual waste
There is no general substitute category. The municipality must provide a residual-waste scheme; contact it if you cannot access one.
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