No trash bins on the train: Company will change passengers' habits

Lollandsbanen (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland)

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*No trash bins on the train:* Company aims to change passengers' habits

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Until New Year's Eve, there will be no trash bins on trains on Lollandsbanen. Passengers will be expected to sort their trash at stations.

The goal is to make trash bins a thing of the past on the lines operated by Lokaltog. (Photo: © Eva Nylander Thomsen, DR) 1 min. ago

From now on, passengers traveling on Lollandsbanen will be expected to take their trash out of the train.

In a trial period until New Year's Eve, there will not be the small plastic bins where one can put a juice box or a banana peel. At stations, there will be different sorting categories where trash should be placed.

It is Lokaltog, which operates the line, and communications chief Mette Berthelsen says that the company first wants to see how passengers react.

- There needs to be something to change our habits, for example if one is used to throwing trash in the train, and now has to take it out themselves, she says.

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> There needs to be something to change our habits, for example if one is

> used to throwing trash in the train, and now has to take it out themselves.

> Mette Berthelsen, communications chief at Lokaltog

Even if the trial of taking trash out of the train is not successful, the goal is to introduce trash sorting on Lollandsbanen, which runs between Nakskov and Nykøbing Falster, but with a number of adjustments.

Simon Elsborg Nygaard, who is a sustainability psychologist at Aarhus University, agrees that it is a good idea with a trial period.

But it can easily become too much for passengers to have to take trash out of the train.

- I think it will be uphill. If one has to do it, I think one in the beginning should find a model where sorting is done inside the train, where passengers usually have plenty of time, he says.

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> I think it will be uphill. If one has to do it, I think one in the beginning should find a model where sorting is done inside the train, where passengers usually have plenty of time.

> Bæredygtighedspsykolog Simon Elsborg Nygaard

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More trash in the train

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Camilla Kasper, who lives in Stokkemarke, and who used Lollandsbanen on Thursday morning, thinks that not all passengers have taken well to the trial. For her, there has been more trash.

- The bins are simply necessary to come back up. I thought it was fantastic, but I think it has given problems so far, she says.

Jens Jørgensen from Nakskov is more positive and believes that sorting will work.

- We are used to sorting trash at home. In the same way, we can also sort trash when we get off the train, he says.

The trial will be evaluated along the way, and if it does not work, there is the possibility of making adjustments, says Mette Berthelsen.

Lokaltog operates 10 lines on Zealand, Lolland and Falster. Among other things, Odsherredsbanen, Tølløsebanen and Østbanen.

* The two train operators on Lollandsbanen will be encouraged to take trash out of the train until New Year's Eve. (Photo: © Lokaltog, DR)

* The trash from the trains will be sorted into three categories until New Year's Eve. Here are the trash bins at Nakskov Station. (Photo: © Eva Nylander Thomsen, DR)

1 / 2 The two train operators on Lollandsbanen will be encouraged to take trash out of the train until New Year's Eve. (Photo: © Lokaltog, DR) 1 / 2 The trash from the trains will be sorted into three categories until New Year's Eve. Here are the trash bins at Nakskov Station. (Photo: © Eva Nylander Thomsen, DR) 2 / 2

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