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  • Your guide to Torsby Municipality

Recycling and sorting of waste products

There are 16 recycling stations in the municipality and 3 recycling centres. Torsby recycling centre is located at Alstigen/Fågelsången.

There are 16 recycling stations in the municipality and 3 recycling centres. Torsby recycling centre is located at Alstigen/Fågelsången.

There are many things that we all can do to reduce the amount of waste we must dispose of, to improve our environment and economise with our natural resources.

Second Hand, the cooperative workshop,

Södra Industrigatan 13, tel 0560-13200 accepts and sells used furniture.

The Red Cross

accepts donations of clothing and shoes in their locale at Kyrkogatan 3, Torsby, where they offer used clothing for sale. Proceeds from the sales go toward financing Red Cross activities.

Second Hand “Olika Ting"

Norra Ringvägen, Torsby. Tel 070-633 71 32. Acceps and sells clothes, shoes etc

Second Hand Cooperative “Dagens Ljus"

— a social enterprise, opens in the autumn of 2011, on Tingshusgatan 9 in Torsby. Tel. Kerstin Andersson 073-023 63 26 and Christer Bönström 073-825 72 07. The shop will accept and sell clothes, shoes etc.

Recycling Centres and Stations


At a number of different locations around the municipality, there  are 16 recycling stations where you can deposit paper, glass, plastic and metal cans. At the recycling centres in Torsby,  Sysslebäck  and Stöllet, you can also deposit other items, such as hazardous waste, old furniture, garden waste and metal, wood and electronic waste.
Monthly Waste Collection
By sorting recyclable waste and composting organic waste a household can apply to the Municipal Environment and Building Committee for monthly collection of waste, thereby reducing the annual cost of collection by SEK 683, compared with the normal cost for collection every 14 days (2010).

Contact us


For more information contact:
Sune Eriksson, Technical Department, tel. 0560-160 32
Per Arne Persson, Environment and Building Department, tel. 0560-160 06
Ansvarig för sidans information är Per-Arne Persson
Sidan uppdaterades den 28 October 2011 av Emelie Ollén