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The purpose of Ekostaden.com is to communicate the transformation of Malmö, Sweden into ecological and social sustainability.
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Today there are 15 recycling houses with full recycling and composting facilities for the 1800 inhabitants of Augustenborg. The aim is that 90 percent of the waste from Augustenborg will be collected and recycled, re-used etc. Today we have reached about 70 percent recycling. The houses were based on design ideas from some of the residents who had been involved in the initial recycling pilot and who visited recycling programmes in other Swedish cities.
The traditional refuse chutes in the houses have been closed, and today all inhabitants leave their waste for recycling at the recycling houses instead. In the recycling houses there are containers for paper, cardboard, coloured glass, uncoloured glass, metal, plastic and batteries. Besides that there are compost machines which convert kitchen waste to high quality compost within 2 months.
The quality of the soil made out of the compost is very good, with high levels of nutrition and low levels of contaminations. An evaluation made by the University of Malmö shows that inhabitants awareness of sustainability issues have risen thanks to the recycling.
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