Which Bin Does It Go In?
Search any household item and see which of Aarhus's ten fractions it belongs in — with the whole list to browse.
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Search any household item and see which of Aarhus's ten fractions it belongs in — with the whole list to browse.
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Since 2023 Aarhus households sort into ten fractions across a few two-part bins plus a red box — a change that had Kredsløb fielding thousands of questions a week. Type what you're throwing out to see which bin it belongs in. Your collection days are set by address: look them up on the kommune's site or the Mit Affald app.
Type what you’re throwing out — it tells you which bag or cart it goes in.
All food scraps, cooked or raw — in the green caddy bag. Shares a bin with restaffald.
What's genuinely left once everything else is sorted out. Shares a bin with madaffald.
Clean paper: newspapers, magazines, envelopes, printer paper.
Clean, dry cardboard, flattened. Big boxes to the recycling station.
Glass bottles and jars, and metal — tins, cans, clean foil, lids. These two fractions share one compartment.
Plastic packaging, and food & drink cartons (milk, juice). These two fractions share one compartment.
Hazardous waste: batteries, light bulbs, chemicals, paint, spray cans. Into the red box — never a wheelie bin.
Worn-out textiles, bagged as their own fraction. Clothes still wearable are better given to charity or reuse.
Your collection days depend on your address
Medicine and needles go back to the pharmacy
Two fractions share one bin
Six full stations across the kommune — Lisbjerg, Hasselager, Viby, Risskov, Brabrand and Malling — open Mon–Fri 07:00–18:00 and Sat/Sun/holidays 10:00–17:00 (closed 24–26 & 31 Dec and 1 Jan). Two small inner-city near-stations (Godsbanen and Aarhus Ø) are open daily 07:00–21:00. Take big cardboard, electronics, garden waste, wood and rubble here.
At-home pickup of furniture and other bulky items is free but must be ordered in advance: enter your address at kredslob.dk to get a pickup date, then put items out no earlier than the evening before, by 06:00 on the day.
Small electronics can go to a recycling station or, per Kredsløb's scheme, in a bag on top of the bin. Anything still working is welcome at the stations' direct-reuse (Genbrugsguld) area.
The last word
Kredsløb runs collection and the recycling stations for Aarhus, and the kommune sets the rules. The scheme changed in 2023 and details still shift — this guide is the last word.
Kredsløb's Sorteringsguiden — search any of 750+ items is the authority for your address.
Source: Kredsløb Sorteringsguiden and genbrugsstationer pages, corroborated against Bolius; scheme overview from Aarhus Kommune., checked 24 July 2026 (5 days ago).
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