Eco-Charge Turns into a Basic Fee
The Vaasa Region Waste Committee (a joint waste board for Stormossen’s owner municipalities) approved a new tariff at its meeting on November 19, 2024. A key change for households is that the eco-charge will turn into a basic fee starting January 1, 2025, in Vaasa, Korsholm, Vörå, Malax, Korsnäs, and Isokyrö.
Basic fees from January 1, 2025 (incl. VAT 25,5%):
- Properties with 1–4 homes: 6,27 €/month/home (18,81 €/quarter/home)
- Properties with 5 or more homes: 5,72 €/month/home (17,16 €/quarter/home)
- Properties with multi-compartment containers: 5,72 €/month (17,16 €/quarter)
- Holiday homes: 37,57 €/year/home
The eco-charge covers the costs of Stormossen’s ecopoints, waste reception stations, regional collection points (for holiday homes), collection campaigns, and waste management education. The basic fee will be billed to all households and holiday homes within Stormossen’s operating area. Detached houses will be invoiced quarterly (4 times a year).
What do holiday homes get with the eco-charge?
Starting in May 2025, Stormossen will enhance waste services for holiday homes by establishing a network of approximately 100 collection points for biowaste and mixed waste. These points will be planned in collaboration with Stormossen’s owner municipalities and strategically located near major marinas and key transportation routes where many holiday homes are situated. Locations will be published on Stormossen’s website once discussions with the municipalities are finalized and the locations are confirmed.
Stormossen has also introduced self-service functionality at 11 waste reception stations, significantly extending opening hours. Long-term plans include equipping all waste reception stations with self-service capabilities, benefiting holiday home users more than ever before.
– The high number of visitors to self-service stations speaks for itself. Customers prefer sorting waste at times that suit their schedules, says Stormossen’s CEO Aimo Latvala.
The basic fee also grants holiday homes access to ecopoints, collection campaigns (e.g. the archipelago scrap collection and Ekobiili services), Roope service points in the archipelago (in collaboration with Keep the Archipelago Tidy organization), and waste management education.
Steering Fee to Encourage Sorting
The processing fee for mixed waste for the most common 240-liter containers will increase from 4,04 euros (VAT 25,5%) to 5,37 euros per emptying. Mixed waste (combustible waste) is delivered to Westenergy Oy for district heating and electricity production. Stormossen bills customers directly for waste processing fees, while transportation companies invoice for waste collection.
– Stormossen employs a so-called steering fee system, meaning that the pricing of different waste types is designed to promote sorting and recycling in accordance with the waste hierarchy, explains Waste Management Manager Camilla Enell-Öst.
The complete waste management tariff (in Finnish) will be available on the Vaasa Region Waste Committee’s website www.vaasanseudunjatelautakunta.fi.