The waste room/area with grey/red containers for metal, cardboard, flamingo, glass, hazardous office waste etc. you will find close to your building. Some waste rooms are inside, e.g. in Rendsburggade 14 and others are outside the building, e.g. Kroghstræde 3.

If you are unsure where to find the waste area, find a guide here, look it up in the "AAU Maps" app: or ask the nearest Facility Supporter.

AAU has made a waste sorting system available to all students, staff and guests. But the sorting itself is up to the individual. Please sort everything you can and have the opportunity to, but at the same time it is also perfectly fine to throw your post-it in the residual waste when you are now standing by the triple bin and have to throw out the apple core.

The paper category must not be placed in the aisles together with the triple bins due to requirements from the fire authorities. That is why they are in printer rooms and in selected kitchenettes, where it is natural to dispose of paper, since paper is produced in the printer rooms. This also ensures more clean paper sorting.

Please rinse and clean your packaging as much as you can before sorting - this applies to both metal and plastic. However a little residual oil in the salad tray or a little tomato sauce after the mackerel in the metal tin can handle the sorting.

A lot of people drink from bottles, cans or glasses - and much of the packaging comes with a monetary deposit (pant). As a starting point, it is best to take your monetary deposit home with you. If you want to throw the monetary deposit away, it must be sorted in the green  stations, which are close to the triple bins.

Currently working on with a more optimal handling of the monetary deposit (pant), where it is also the ambition that the monetary deposit profit goes to a good cause.

Clean paper is sorted in the printer room and in selected kitchenettes. However, if you spilled your café latte on your papers, then they must go in the residual waste.

NOTE: Paper is printer paper, not paper towels or napkins.

Although you might be tempted to throw the pizza tray in the cardboard container, it should go in the residual waste container in your nearest waste room. There is often cooking oil and other residues in the pizza tray, and therefore it can no longer be sorted as pure cardboard.

NOTE: The pizza tray takes up too much space in the indoor triple bins in the hallways, so it must go in the black residual waste container.

At home, the Municipality collects all types of waste categories. But it is not like that for companies. At AAU we have several different waste collectors. The municipality collects the residual waste, HCS collects all the sorted waste categories.

After waste sorting was implemented at AAU in 2020, we sent approx. 500 tons of waste for recycling per year. The residual waste is not included in the 500 tonnes, as this category is not recycled.

...500 tons are a lot and correspond to approx. 4.5 blue whales, if you must compare.

In Campus Service, we continuously work to develop waste management from start to finish and therefore have several projects in the pipeline - both in terms of sorting behavior and in relation to recycling AAU waste, so that it creates the greatest value for the environment.

The gray containers are a temporary solution until ground tanks are established. The process of establishing ground tanks is underway and awaits case processing by the Municipality.