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Sammanfattning: This study expands the current research on waste management in multi-dwellings by analysing how a Swedish public utility property have used an economic instrument to increase the tenants’ recycling rate. The tenants’ precipitation about the need of storage space for recyclables and the construction of personal storage solutions to fit their needs, adds important knowledge about the importance of convenience when it comes to increasing the recycling rate. This alongside the analysis of informal efforts, aimed to influence habit, norms or personal values, and information about demographics, household constellation and income level shows what motivates and impact different groups in the society. The outcome shows that the economic instrument increased the tenants recycling rate, thus it is constructed on collective participation and involves small sums. To better improve the instrument, the municipal waste fee should be linked to waste-weights instead of waste-volumes. The need for storage space was found to be vital and there is a distinctly demand for a dimensioned storage system adapted to emulate the system used in the recycling building. The tenants who had adopted a personal storage system with different fractions for recyclables found the recycling to be less time consuming and more convenient. As expected, the areas with a high percentage of households with children generated lager amount of waste, especially the one that also had a higher income level, but the recycling rate did not differ from the other areas. The area that generated the least amount of waste per household and had the highest recycling rate, was inhabited by nearly all of an age above 70 years. These findings conclude that the time needed for recycling of waste is an important variable to consider, and that a dimensioned storage system could reduce the time needed for recycling of waste.