Electrical and electronic waste
Mobile phones, printers, TVs and LED-bulbs are examples of electrical and electronic waste.
Electrical and electronic waste includes discarded products that are powered by electric current, accumulators, batteries, or solar energy.
These products can be dropped off free of charge at all our waste reception stations. For heavy appliances, we have lifting assistance only at Stormossen’s waste reception station in Kvevlax. At Stormossen and Vaasa’s waste reception stations, there are locked containers for submitting information-sensitive electronic devices, such as USB sticks, phones, and tablets.
- household appliances, such as domestic appliances, microwaves, and electric mixers
- home electronics, such as phones, computers, headphones, chargers, extension cords
- digital meters, such as thermometers, blood pressure meters
- power tools
- toys that are powered or charged by electricity or batteries
- fixtures and lighting sets
You can also leave electrical and electronic waste at some stores that sell electrical appliances as follows:
- Appliances whose external dimensions do not exceed 25cm can be left without the obligation to buy a new product.
- at a grocery store of at least 1,000m2
- at a specialty electronics store of at least 200m2
- Appliances whose external dimensions exceed 25cm can be left at the store when the customer buys a new equivalent.
Checklist for recycling electrical and electronic waste
- If possible, remove batteries and small accumulators, tape the poles, and return them to battery collection.
- Empty phones and computers of personal information and restore factory settings. Even though the products are sorted and continue to recycling from us, it is good to ensure that sensitive data does not end up in the wrong hands.
- Remove bulbs from fixtures. They are collected separately at the waste reception station or at stores.
- Remove bags from vacuum cleaners.
- Ink cartridges and cassettes do not need to be removed from the printer.
- Place the glass jug from the coffee maker and the plate from the microwave in mixed waste (combustible waste). At a waste reception station, they go to landfill waste.
- Submit all products without packaging.
What happens to electronic scrap?
Products are sorted and dismantled. Almost all material becomes raw material for new goods.
All waste types