Vilken del av avfallet samlas in separat?

Separation by waste stream, not just the total

It concerns the breakdown of waste production into hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and where possible further by processing method: recycling, incineration, landfill. This is therefore a follow-up question to how much waste the company produces per year — that shows the total, here it asks how that total is composed. A customer asking this question wants to see what proportion of the waste is kept separate for recycling or reuse, and what proportion is disposed of as residual waste.

Many SMEs do not keep track of this in a single overview: the waste processor provides figures per stream (paper, plastic, metal, residual waste), but no one adds those up to a percentage "separately collected". If that overview does not exist, the most honest answer is that the breakdown is not available, rather than presenting an estimate as hard figures. Invoices or annual reports from the waste processor are usually the fastest source to reconstruct this, because the tonnages per stream are already listed there.

Var det står i VSME-basmodulen

The VSME basic module of EFRAG asks for waste indicators to be broken down by hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and recommends that where known the destination also be stated — recycling, recovery or disposal. This appears in the same environmental paragraph as the question about the total waste figure; the separation rate is within this an additional detail, not a separate chapter. Whoever has already completed the indicator for the total, only needs to break down the existing figures further for this part, not set up a new measurement.