At the Recycling station
There are a total of 23 recycling stations in Ekorosk’s operations area. You can bring, e.g. plastic and cardboard packaging, energy waste, wood waste, metal, glass, paper, cardboard, electrical and electronic waste, hazardous waste, stone material and landfill waste to the recycling station. Garden waste is either accepted at the recycling station or has a separate collection point in the municipality.
Sort the waste according to these types of waste already when you load the car or trailer at home. This facilitates emptying at the recycling station. To further speed up your visit, you can arrange the waste in the order that the material containers are arranged at the recycling station. Ask our staff if you need help with the sorting. Thank you for sorting!
Batteries
Batteries include finger batteries, small batteries and small portable accumulators, such as tool accumulators and moped accumulators. Larger industrial batteries or car accumulators are not included in batteries.
Bring batteries for collection without a plastic bag, packaging or cover. You should preferably place the batteries individually and with the poles taped in the collection box.
Used batteries and accumulators usually have a small amount of electrical charge. If the poles touch each other, even a small electrical charge can generate so much heat that the material around it, e.g. a plastic bag, starts to burn. It is easy to prevent the fire risk by taping over the terminals of batteries and accumulators, as soon as you remove them from the appliance. Normal tape or masking tape works well. The most important thing is that you cover the poles. Plastic bags or packaging in the battery collection also cause fire hazards and problems during emptying.
Brushwood and twigs
Brushwood and twigs must be sorted separately from other garden waste.
Do not leave sacks of brushwood and twigs. Empty out the brushwood and twigs if you put them in a sack.
When cleaning away alien plant species such as giant onion and giant balsam, place them in a plastic bag and put it in the energy waste container at the recycling station.
Large quantities of stone and soil are accepted at the waste stations in Pirilö in Pietarsaari and Storkohmo in Kokkola. Remember that you must pay a processing fee for waste delivered by a company or via a transport company to Ekorosk.
Cardboard
Different packaging of paper, cardboard and carton must be placed in the cardboard recycling. These include e.g. milk packaging, juice packs, pizza boxes, flour bags, egg boxes, detergent boxes, pasta packaging, corrugated cardboard, as well as empty toilet paper and kitchen paper rolls.
Cardboard packaging does not need a special bag, but can be conveniently packed into each other. The packaging must be dry and clean. Remove plastic caps. Flat and fold the lids together. Smaller packages can be placed inside larger ones.
Electrical and electronic waste (SER)
Electrical and electronic waste is discarded electrical and electronic products. This includes all the appliances that are powered by an electric current, accumulators, batteries or solar energy. All lamps, with the exception of incandescent and halogen lamps, are considered electrical and electronic products. The most common electrical and electronic appliances in a home include household appliances, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, clocks, computers, printers, mobile phones, televisions, home electronics, cameras, lamps, lighting fixtures and electrical tools, as well as electric heaters and water heaters.
Electric and electronic waste is accepted at the recycling station. Only bring complete equipment, never disassemble the unit yourself.
Energy waste at the recycling station
Energy waste taken to the recycling station is waste that does not occur on a daily basis in a kitchen or at a desk. Instead it includes larger objects and things that are discarded during spring-cleaning at home or in the garage. The energy waste at the recycling station includes canisters, polystyrene, dirty textiles, plastics, as well as wet and dirty cardboard and paper that cannot be recycled.
Do not put PVC (label 03), electronics or hazardous waste in the container for energy waste.
Energy waste must not be packed in bags, packaging or wrappers.
Glass packaging
Sort empty glass packaging for food as glass. These include glass bottles and glass jars that are emptied when you prepare food. You can put both coloured and clear glass bottles and glass jars in the glass container. The glass packaging must be clean so that it does not cause sanitary problems. Rinse them with a splash of cold water or wash them while washing your regular dishes. You can remove caps and lids, sort them by materials into plastic or metal. Labels and rings around the neck of the bottle may remain. The above-mentioned glass is accepted at the eco-points.
Note! Glass containers such as drinking glasses, oven moulds and coffee pots, as well as opal glass, window glass, windshields and mirrors are accepted at the recycling station. Ceramics and porcelain are not glass but are accepted at the recycling station.
Glass packaging must not be packed in bags, packaging or wrappers.
Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste includes chemicals, waste oil and other oily waste, accumulators, batteries, solvents, adhesives, lacquers, paint, impregnating agents, fluorescent lamps and low energy lamps, pesticides, impregnated wood waste, cleaning agents, acids, aerosol cans with content, liquid nail polish, tin, mercury , and refrigeration and freezing devices. Hazardous waste is waste that is harmful to health and the environment. Hazardous waste may or may not be labelled with warning labels.
Hazardous waste must be brought to the recycling station in its original packaging. If you change packaging for the hazardous waste, e.g. drain a liquid into a smaller container, write clearly on the packaging what it contains. The station attendant can then use the label to determine in which vessel the hazardous waste should be placed.
Tell the station attendant what kind of hazardous waste you have and feel free to ask where you can leave it. Various substances may react among themselves if hazardous waste falls into the wrong vessel, with the risk of it starting to burn. This also affects the safety of all customers and Ekorosk’s employees.
Medicines that have become surplus should be taken to the nearest pharmacy. The pharmacies accept them in collaboration with Ekorosk.
Note! Contact Ekorosk if you have asbestos in your home. Private individuals are forbidden to handle asbestos by law.
Landfill
Sort window glass, glass vessels, mirrors, fibreglass, shoes, leather clothing and PVC plastic (i.e. wet-resistant wallpaper, floor mats, drainpipes, tarpaulins, rainwear) for landfill.
Landfill is the treatment method used for waste, which cannot be treated any other way. From the material sorted as landfill, Ekorosk tries to further sort out material that could be recycled at a waste incineration plant. What remains is deposited at the landfill so as not to harm nature.
Leaves and grass
Leaves and grass should be sorted separately from other garden waste.
Do not leave sacks of leaves and grass. Empty out the leaves and grass if you put them in a sack.
When cleaning away alien plant species such as giant onion and giant balsam, place them in a plastic bag and put it in the energy waste container at the recycling station.
Large quantities of stone and soil are accepted at the waste stations in Pirilö in Pietarsaari and Storkohmo in Kokkola. Remember that you must pay a processing fee for waste delivered by a company or via a transport company to Ekorosk.
Metal
Metal includes empty tin cans and other packaging made of metal, empty aluminium moulds and foil, coffee capsules and caviar tubes, caps and lids, empty vitamin tubes and spray cans made of metal, pots, cutlery and metal objects that have broken, such as frying pans and umbrellas. You do not need to remove plastic or fabric handles, as the scrap metal is ground and sorted using magnets, among other things.
Metal must not be packed in bags, packaging or wrappers. Metal objects that are larger than the mouth of the eco-point must be brought to the recycling station.
Paper
Paper includes newspapers, magazines, photocopy paper, flyers, brochures, catalogues and envelopes, both with and without plastic windows.
Paper does not need any packaging. The paper should be dry and clean.
Gift paper, dirty and wet paper, and cardboard must not be sorted with paper.
Plastic packaging
Plastic packaging is a cover used to wrap a product. This could be e.g. plastic from food, boxes for tomatoes, yoghurt tubs or packaging from cold cuts. Plastic bags are also counted as plastic packaging, as are plastic packaging from detergent, shampoo and soap. Plastic bottles, canisters and tubs should also be disposed of in plastic recycling. If possible, flatten the packaging.
Plastic packaging does not need to be packed in bags, but should not be bulky. Rinse with a little cold water and dry the package. Remove stoppers and lids. Bring the empty, dry and clean plastic packaging for recycling. If the packaging smells bad it can be sorted as energy waste.
Stone material
Stone material includes bricks, tiles, ceramics, porcelain and concrete from the demolition and renovation of buildings etc.
Stone materials must not be packed in bags, packaging or wrappers.
Treated wood
Treated wood includes furniture, doors, painted, lacquered, glued and surface-treated boards and sheets, veneers, coated veneers, windbreak boards, laminate boards and particleboard. Nails, screws and hinges may remain in place.
Note! Impregnated wood is hazardous waste that is collected separately.
Untreated wood
For wood, sort untreated wood, raw boards and pallets. Nails, screws and hinges may remain in place.
Treated wood such as painted or impregnated wood, are sorted separately.
Washing machines and refrigerators
These include discarded washing machines and refrigerators.
Washing machines and refrigerators are accepted separately at the recycling station. Contact the station attendant. Only bring complete equipment, never disassemble the unit yourself.