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Icelanders Throw Out 10 Tonnes Of Clothing Per Day
Icelanders discard roughly 10 tonnes of clothing per day, according to the Icelandic Environment and Energy Agency. Only five to ten percent of the textile is recycled domestically, with the vast majority of clothes being exported to waste centres in Europe, RÚV…
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Sorpa Calls For A Recycling Fee On Textiles
According to a new law, all municipalities are required to handle textile collection alongside other waste. Until recently, the Icelandic Red Cross oversaw the export of used textiles, but that responsibility has now shifted to a waste management company Sorpa. RÚV reports…
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Do Shit: Making Sense Of Recycling In Reykjavík
The Útlendingur’s ongoing guide to getting shit done For 14 years living in Reykjavík, I found myself lamenting the lack of home pick-up for sorted recycling and biowaste. So when Reykjavíkurborg began rolling out its new waste management system in 2023, I…
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18-Month Supply Of Organic Waste Bags Depleted In Months
Maybe it’s a sign of the poor planning around Reykjavík’s revamped waste management system, or maybe the city is replete with greedy greedy hoarders, but an 18-month supply of paper bags provided for residents to dispose of organic household waste is already…
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Ask An Expert: Why Isn’t Glass Recycled In Iceland?
The majority of apartment buildings in Reykjavík only have trash bins for mixed waste, plastic, and paper. “Where do wine bottles go?”—wonder those coming from other places. This question has puzzled Grapevine’s expat journalists for months, too. We reached out to Jamie…
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Designing Reusable Bags For Hay Rolls
The recycling system in Iceland is designed to transport plastic out of the country to be recycled elsewhere. Not too long ago, a recycling project in Hveragerði by the name of Pure North began recycling plastic using geothermal energy. In an interview…
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RVK Newscast #151: The Oldest Icelander Ever!
Welcome back to RVK Newscast! In this episode editor-in-chief Valur Gretttison visits Hellisgerði in Hafnarfjörður to go over the latest news in Iceland: cybersecurity, weird walrus polemics and a new record for the oldest person in Iceland. [su_pullquote]You can now take walking…
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RVK Newscast #150: Iceland’s Plastic Shame
In this 150th episode of Reykjavík Grapevine’s Newscast, editor-in-chief Valur Grettisson brings you a special breaking news story regarding Iceland’s plastics recycling – or as it turns out, lack thereof. Bjartmar Alexandersson, who you may know from our show ‘The Icelandic Perspective’,…
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The Good Shepard Charity Store Will Remain Open
Despite the future of the charity shop looking bleak, the store is set to remain open. The shop is located on Hverfisgata 94-96 and was re-opened last November. The company wanted to see whether there was a big enough market of people looking…
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Icelandic Supermarket Offers In-Store Packaging Recycling
A local supermarket chain has begun a novel approach to reducing waste generated by their own products: in-store recycling. As RÚV reports, the plan is simple enough: after buying your products at the supermarket Krónan, you can unpack your goods right in…
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Icelandic Gov’t To Launch Campaign Encouraging Tourists To Not Buy Bottled Water
In an effort to try and reduce plastic waste, the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources and the Environment Agency of Iceland are launching a new project to try and reduce plastic waste in Iceland. According to an announcement from Icelandic…
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Don’t Ask Nanna: About Icelandic Sustainability
Hallo Nanna, So tell me, why is there barely any waste seperation and what you gonna do with all the trash anyways – throughing it into the volcanoes? And people say Iceland is so renewable, innovative and GREEN; why are there still…
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Give Trash Another Chance
Everyone wants to recycle. Especially in 2016. It was your New Year’s resolution, remember? Sure you do. But, it can get confusing. “Where do the jam jars go?” “Is there a special thing for cork?” “What do I do with all these…
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“Ice Shoes” Made From Plastic Bottles
An idea contest originating from the Iceland Academy of the Arts (LHÍ) has brought forth a novel use of the humble plastic bottle. The contest encouraged people to submit a video no more than three minutes long showing an inventive use of one or…