In order to welcome you we have compiled information about your new hometown.
Get to know the town’s walking and cycling paths, activities and swimming pools but children under 18 get free access to pools.
Children and youth in Hafnarfjörður have access to good education, after-school activities and recreation activities.
Practical information about buses, waste collection, street cleaning, traffic, animal control and more.
Hafnarfjörður hopes to secure financial and social security for all residents. Find out what support is available.
Enjoy culture in Bæjarbíó cultural house, at various museums or attend exciting events.
You can stay at great hotels, hostels or at a family friendly campsite in town.
You can find a lot of outdoors activities and various recreations in Hafnarfjörður.
Check-out upcoming events, or register a new one.
Search for employees or available jobs in town.
Hafnarfjörður Town council consists of 11 municipal representatives. All town council meetings are broadcast live.
Here you can find the town's fees for children, sports and activities and support services.
Contact us with ideas, suggestions, problems or emergencies.
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We are on our way to your house with the new trash bin. Distribution in Hafnarfjörður will begin Monday, May 22 at Hvaleyrarholt and ends on Friday, July 14 at Vellir. Residents who have their phone number registered with 1819.is will receive a text message about the delivery.
Detached houses (one-, two- and three-detached houses) will receive 240L divided into two for food scraps and mixed waste. New bins will be added to detached houses, and the principle will be three bins for each detached house. The existing bins will be relabeled for plastic on the one hand and paper on the other.
All apartment buildings receive a 240L brown container for food scraps and the number of containers is tailored to the needs of each apartment building. Gray bins will be relabeled for mixed waste and plastic and blue bins will be relabeled for paper.
Along with the distribution of new containers, all households in Hafnarfjörður will receive a plastic basket and a paperbag for the collection of food scraps within households. The basket ensures that there is air around the paperbag so that it stays dry. The paperbags play a key role in making usable compost from the food scraps. It is a good idea to regularly empty the paperbags into a new bin under food scraps.
Residents in non-approved apartments can access a plastic basket and a paperbag during opening hours at Hafnarfjarðarbær’s service center at Norðurhella 2, starting on May 22.
Residents are encouraged to test the new arrangement and number of bins this summer and into the fall to get the best possible impression of the household’s needs, and not least the sorting that relates to paper and plastic. The waste collection frequency will remain the same, every 28 days for plastic and paper and every 14 days for food scraps and mixed waste. In the fall, when the distribution ends, it will be possible to buy another 240L waste container for plastic and paper and replace it with a 240L plastic container and a 240L paper container.
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