This publication summaries this past year – a year of preparations, reforms and initiatives at all levels: from local textile sorting campaigns to municipalities taking over package collection, from new residual waste targets to local emergency preparedness and international partnerships to support a war-torn waste sector in Ukraine.
Each Swede generated an average of 426 kilograms of household waste during the year, a decrease of five kilograms compared to 2023. At the same time, biological treatment increased by a full 11 percent. Waste such as food and garden waste undergoes digestion or composting and is turned into biofertiliser, soil conditioner and biogas. Even rigid plastics, which historically have had a low recycling rate, are now being collected to a much greater extent through municipal systems, creating better conditions for both quality and quantity in material recycling.
This is an annual report compiled by Avfall Sverige, containing national statistics on household waste in Sweden.