Stop for tea lights in the recovery – Radio Sweden

The aluminum cups that remain when the candle has burned out is no longer welcome in the collection system for packaging and newspapers.

In a new interpretation of the EU directive for producer does not count anymore nightlights that package.

This means that the packaging and newspaper collection can no longer receive them, the newspaper Ny Teknik.

The Swedes burn about 300 million tea lights every year.

tealight producers have paid fee to the aluminum cup should be collected and recycled, but the new interpretation is equated tealights with memorial candles, which are not considered as packaging.

Now it is the municipalities who take over responsibility for tea light cups. They can choose to let the cups are collected at recycling centers or collected by, for example sports clubs.

Annica Dahlberg’s Information Packaging and Newspaper collection, do not hope that the new directives will make people start throwing aluminum cups in the garbage instead.

– To throw them in the garbage bag is the worst option. It takes a lot less energy when aluminum is recycled compared with when it nytillverkas, so it is very enter state that the material is recycled, she says.

Although light holders in aluminum hardly weighs anything, it would be 225 tonnes aluminum per year if all the holder recycled.