Interesting topic!
I'm in a suburb to Stockholm, Sweden.
In some areas, you HAVE to do waste separation/recycling, it's mandatory.
But in many/most areas, especially areas with houses (not apartments), it is voluntary.
Most of us choose to do it, though.
In my area, houses have 1 bin for "foods" (compostable bags), 1 bin for "gardening" (grass, leaves, fallen fruit), and one for "mixed". These are all emptied weekly, by the city.
But most of us also separate plastic packaging, metal packaging, glass packaging, cartons and newspapers.
Then we spend our weekends driving to the nearest recycling station with all of this - great way have a chat with your neighbours... 🙂
Soft drink bottles and cans we bring back to the grocery stores and put into a machine, and we get refunded a small amount.
And then we of course separate batteries, light bulbs and gas cans etc - these we drive further away, on a more irregular basis.
But when it comes to my guests, who stay in a tinyhouse in my garden, I don't feel I can (or want to) demand this level of waste separation or recycling.
- The house is so compact, that I don't want to put several bins for different kinds of trash inside.
- Plus they are on holiday...
- But the outside bins (they ones emptied by the city) are only a few steps from the guest house entrance.
- In the house, I leave the composable bags, in case they want to separate foods.
- In addition, I'v put a box with a lid next t the bins, where I encourage guests to put metal, hard plastic, cartons, glass and cans. All mixed in the box - I'll sort it all later.
And then I let them choose:
If they want to do waste separation, they can - if they don't, then that's OK too.
The information on this is in the information folder in the house, along with information how to use the air conditioner, the fans, the blinds, how to order take-out, directions...