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CHECK FOR SOIL ENRICHMENT AND ENERGY FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE BIO-WASTE Hazardous waste contains substances that may be detrimental or hazardous Compost provides good soil enrichment for gardens. Separately collected bio- to people and the environment, even in small amounts. waste is composted industrially or is treated in the biogas facility. Biogas is turned into district heat and electricity. The end product is also suitable for fertiliser. The most important requirement for the recovery and safe treatment of wastes are that hazardous waste is sorted from other wastes and delivered to a reception station established for hazardous waste. FROM WASTE TO RAW MATERIAL Take domestic hazardous waste to Pikkukukko sorting station or collection Properly sorted recoverable waste can be used for manufacturing new vehicle for hazardous waste free of charge. products. For example, paper is used for producing catalogue and news- paper paper, carton is turned into corrugated cardboard and packaging carton, glass is used for manufacturing new glass packages, and metal for producing metal packages and new metal products. Plastic packages serve as raw material for manufacturing recycled plastic products, such as plastic sacks, plastic bags and plastic profiles for various purposes. Read more about sorting and utilisation of packaging waste at RECOGNIZE HAZARD SYMBOLS www.rinkiin.fi/for-households. The signs below warn us that the product in question is hazardous waste. There is not always a label attached to the product, so it is important to learn to recognize hazardous waste. Be alert! FROM WASTE TO ENERGY Waste that cannot be recycled as material for new products is utilised in district heat and electricity production at Riikinvoima Eco-Power Plant.

Acute toxic Flammable Chronic Environmental Gases under health hazard hazards pressure

Oxidizing Corrosive Health hazard Explosive WHAT SORTS OF WASTE DO YOU RECYCLE EVERY DAY?

TAKE TO THE CONTAINER FOR RECYCLABLE WASTE Find your nearest eco-recycling point PROVIDED ON THE PREMISES OR TO AN ECO-RECYCLING POINT kierrätys.info

PAPER CARTON PACKAGES GLASS PACKAGES

• Newspapers and magazines • Milk and juice cartons • Glass jars • Ads and other junk mail • Biscuit boxes, flour bags, • Non-refundable glass bottles • Envelopes pizza boxes • Copy paper • Wrappings of beverage packages Rinse bottles and jars, • Directories and books • Cardboard boxes remove corks and lids. It is not necessary to remove labels or Put paper into the collection PAPERI Rinse liquid packages. Let them dripKARTONKI dry. bottle collars. LASI container loose. Staples or paper clips Flatten out and pack tightly. PAKKAUKSET Deliver other types of glass to PAKKAUKSET do not need to be removed. Throw dirty packages into mixed waste. a sorting station.

TEXTILES METAL PLASTIC PACKAGES

• Clothes • Metal cans, metal caps • Plastic food packages, such as • Shoes and lids yoghurt cups and cold cuts and • Home textiles and soft • Aluminium foil cheese packages furnishings • Metal cups from tea lights • Detergent and shampoo bottles and outdoor candles • Plastic bottles, canisters and Only undamaged and clean • Empty and dried up paint tins containers textiles, packed in closed bags. • Small quantities of other • Plastic carriers, bags and Textiles unfit for use must be TEKSTIILI household metal METALLI wrappings MUOVI disposed of amongst mixed waste. PAKKAUKSET Only clean and empty packages and cans. Only clean and dry packages. Throw Take large-size metal junk to a sorting station. dirty packages into mixed waste.

Find more information about sorting of packages rinkiin.fi/for-households

TAKE TO A COMPOSTER OR COLLECTION SORT CORRECTLY AND TAKE TO CONTAINER FOR BIOWASTE A COLLECTION POINT BIOWASTE HAZARDOUS WASTE ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT • Food leftovers Take domestic hazardous waste to a • Fruit and vegetable skins Pikkukukko sorting station or collection Take electric equipment to the sales • Coffee grounds, tea bags vehicle for hazardous waste free of charge. outlets when buying a new device, to • Kitchen paper BIOJÄTE • Remnants of liquid a Pikkukukko sorting • Potting soil, plants paint, glue and station or other varnish (not reception station, Absorb liquids. Pack biowaste into paper-, newsprint- or biodegradable hardened); also in accepted by bag before throwing it into the collection container. aerosol cans the producer • Solvents such as associations, turpentine, thinner free of charge and acetone for households • New Year’s tin and lead • Batteries from vehiclesVAARALLINEN and power tools JÄTE • All plug-in or battery-operatedSÄHKÖLAITTEET devices • Used oils, oily wastes (e.g. cotton waste) • Refrigerators, freezers, TV-sets, TAKE TO A CONTAINER OF MIXED WASTE and oil filters computers • Plant-protective agents and pesticides • Vacuum cleaners, coffee machines, MIXED WASTE TO ENERGY along with their packages phones, radios • Hygiene products • Gift wraps • Wood-protective liquids and • Fluorescent tubes, energy saving • Dirty cartons, papers and plastic • Pet litter impregnating agents bulbs, LED lamps packages • Incandescent and • Toxicants and disinfectants • Dust bags and waste from normal halogen light bulbs household cleaning • Chewing gum, cigaretteSEKAJÄTE ends, ash BATTERIES AND SMALL PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE • Clothing, footwear, home textiles and • Plastic products, polystyrene (EPS) soft furnishings unfit for use • Small-size wood-based waste RECHARGABLE BATTERIES Take pharmaceutical waste to a pharmacy, free of Take batteries Mixed waste is utilised in district heat and electricity production at Eco-Power-Plant. charge for households and small • Tablets in their rechargeable own blister foil batteries to their packs or loose in sales outlets, transparent bags free of charge for • Pharmaceuticals TAKE TO A PIKKUKUKKO SORTING STATION households containing iodine or • Mattresses and furniture • Plastic products other than bromine and chemotherapeutic drugs • Put some sticky tape on the power • Windows and mirror glass packages, styrofoam in their own packaging poles PARISTOT JA AKUT LÄÄKEJÄTE • Wood waste • Insulation wool • Liquid medicines, ointments, creams • Seal leaking batteries in a plastic bag • Scrap metal • Concrete, bricks and porcelain and spray bottles in their own packages • Impregnated wood • Hazardous waste, electric and • Mercury thermometers in packages • Plasterboard electronic equipment • Hypodermic needles and syringes in packages Check out the opening hours jatekukko.fi/lajitteluasemat