Employees and students at Department of Geoscience are expected to make sure, that the waste produced is handled correctly.
Below you will find a list of waste categories and how you are should handle it.
Use the black buckets in the laboratories and empty these into the container for geological waste (labelled "deponi") located by the car elevator. Note that the container is only for soil, rock, sediments and never paper, plastic, metal or other materials. The container must only be half filled, otherwise it will be too heavy to handle.
Note that special rules apply for storage and disposal according to Executive Order 1035 17/12/1997. In principle, the material (and what it has been in contact with, i.e. gloves, bags, utensils, etc.) should be treated as special waste.
Household glass (i.e. jam containers, drinking glasses, bottles) should be delivered to the container by the car lift.
Laboratory glass may only be sorted as normal glass waste if the glass has been used for a pH neutral and odorless chemical and if the bottle is colored. Laboratory glass should always be cleaned and labeled with a white label with the text "rengjort" (clean in Danish). Most laboratories has a container for glass waste.
If the glass waste does NOT meet the requirements above there is two possibilities:
Birte Eriksen is responsible for the chemical waste of the department.
Refer to specific guidelines for the process and a lab. technician!
By contacting the secretariat you can have a box for you office for paper waste. You must emty it yourself.
Cardboard boxes for paper recycling are not normally emptied in offices. Cardboard and paper are disposed of in a container set up by car lift. Note that cardboard boxes must be folded out.
Next to the car lift you will also find a sealed container for confidential papers etc. for shredding.At the car lift there is a container for plastic waste that can be recycled. There are the following rules, plastic must be:
Hard plastic containing residues of hazardous substances must be treated as hazardous waste (see under chemicals). Other plastics that do not meet the requirements must be disposed of in the container for "small flammable" installed on the parking lot.