Sort your waste correctly
Bio-waste
- fruit peel, vegetable and root vegetable skins and egg shells
- food leftovers
- dried and spoilt foodstuffs
- coffee grounds or tea leaves along with the filter papers
- used paper towels.
NO
- cigarette butts
- vacuum cleaner dust bags
- plastic bags
- nappies
- milk and juice cartons.
Mixed waste
- unsorted waste
- disposable nappies and sanitary towels
- porcelain
- leather and rubber
- vacuum cleaner dust bags
- incandescent and halogen light bulbs and fuses
- PVC plastic products
- ashes and cigarette butts
- aluminium-coated plastics, such as coffee packets and crisp bags.
NO
- hazardous waste
- electronics
Paper
- newspapers and magazines
- advertisements
- recycled papers
- envelopes (including windowed ones)
- paper
- paperback books.
NO
- wet and dirty paper
- tissue paper
- aluminium paper
- corrugated cardboard
- brown paper bags
- cartons and similar packages
- plastic and styrofoam.
Paperboard and cartboard
- corrugated cardboard containers and boxes
- wrapping paper
- milk and juice cartons etc. (including aluminium-lined ones)
- dry product cartons
- paper bags for sugar, flour etc.
- pizza boxes
- egg cartons
- other disposable paperboard containers.
NO
- dirty and unwashed containers
- plastic and styrofoam.
Not sure which bin to put your waste in? See the instructions on the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY website.
Read more
- Infopankki > Waste management
- www.hsy.fi > … > FAQ
- www.hsy.fi > … > Cut down waste