On the BRIT, the map with household biowaste collection in Europe contains different types of waste as well as different collection systems. Let’s go quickly through all of them.
Waste categories:
-Green waste: In the households, those are the wastes from gardens, like soil, flowers, grass. Just remember that green wastes from the streets, like branches and leaves from the first quest, are collected and managed differently than green waste from private gardens. It is due to the different content of those wastes.
-Food waste: food residues, can include both pre- and post-plate waste, which can be plant-based or animal-based, processed or unprocessed and partly avoidable or unavoidable.
-Biowaste: food waste and green waste together.
-Residual waste: Non-recyclable waste, which are not suitable for either glass, paper, plastic, nor the biowaste. In simple words, everything that cannot be recycled.
Collection systems:
-Door to door: the waste bins are placed directly outside or near each household for easy collection.
-On demand kerbside collection:
-Recycling centre: waste is taken to a facility managed by the municipality or a private entity, where citizens drop off their recyclables.
-Bring point: waste bins are located in public areas, which may be 500 meters or more from households, where residents take their waste.
-No separate collection: there is no special system in place for collecting certain types of waste.