Construction waste
You do a favour for yourself, your wallet, and the environment by properly sorting construction waste.
Waste is more efficiently recycled when it is sorted. Sort your construction waste already where it is generated. Quantities smaller than 2 m3 can be taken to any waste reception station, whereas larger quantities must be taken to Stormossen’s waste centre in Kvevlax. Sorted construction waste is more affordable than mixed waste, as it is weighed at the waste reception centre’s scale.
Sort the construction waste by these waste types:
- clean wood waste: untreated planks and boards, pallets
- wood from demolition: painted planks and boards, chipboards
- impregnated wood is sorted separately from other wood
For example rebars, pipes, taps, tools, nails, empty paint cans, and other metal goods and scraps
For example washbasins, toilets, floor tiles, and wall tiles. Note! Concrete powder is hazardous waste.
Drywall without plastic or vinyl wallpaper.
Maximum stone diameter 40 cm. Stumps and roots must be sorted as garden waste.
Corrugated cardboard and cardboard packages. Rivets and tape may remain.
For example accumulators, batteries, fluorescent lamps, energy-saving lamps, paint and glue residue, varnishes, mould oil, silicon and urethane packagings, impregnated wood, concrete and grout powder
Please follow the instuctions carefully when bringing hazardous waste to a self service station.
Such as broken electric power tools and household appliances.
Impregnated wood is sorted separately.
Waste containing asbestos dust and fibres are classed as hazardous waste, which requires special treatment. Asbestos must be packed separately from any other waste.
Check the asbestos advice before bringing it to a waste reception station.
For mineral wool, glass wool, and fiberglass only.
Windows are sorted separately.
For example gloves, dried brushes and rollers, styrox, plastic (not PVC), paper, mixed cleaning and sweeping waste that contains pieces of wood, wire stumps, bits of polyurethane etc.
Such as rock wool, float glass, PVC plastic, roofing felt (asbestos analysis report!)
The South Ostrobothnia Centre for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment (ELY Centre) has prepared instructions concerning the demolition or renovation of properties as well as the handling and sorting of demolition waste. Sorting instructions have been adjusted to Stormossen’s operating area. Read the instructions by clicking this link (only in Finnish).
All waste types