Plastic packages

All empty packages that mainly consists of plastic:

• plastic food packaging (e.g. yoghurt cups, butter tubs, cheese packaging and ready-meal trays)
• detergent packaging (schampoo, soap and detergent packages)
• other household plastic packaging, bottles and jars (e.g. plastic cans, tubes, packaging for toys, tools, garden, and fishing gear)
• take-away food containers and packaging, single-use cups
• plastic bags, pouches and wrappers
• styrofoam packaging and other plastic fillers

Plastic packages must be empty but there is no need to wash them. A small amount of food residue, such as marinade sauce stains or leftover yogurt on the rim of a yogurt container, does not prevent plastic packaging from being recycled. If empty food packaging is stored at home for a long time, it can be wiped with a used napkin or paper towel to prevent odors before placing it in the plastic packaging collection.

Remove caps, lids and pump parts and sort them separately. These parts are often made of different plastic than the rest of the packaging. Do not stack plastic packages together unless you are sure they are the same sort of plastic. Flatten the packages, if possible.

Toys, plastic sledges, watering cans, candle holders and other plastic items that are not packages are sorted as mixed waste. Packages that are dirty or contain residues of hazardous waste must not be sorted as plastic.

Plastic packages sorted by households save energy in the production of plastic and reduce the need to use oil. Some of the plastic packaging waste collected from consumers is delivered to a plastic refinery in Riihimäki. At the refinery, plastic packaging waste is sorted, cleaned and the part suitable for recycling is made into plastic granules that will serve as raw material for new plastic products. Non-recyclable plastic can be used with mixed waste as fuel at waste-to-energy plants. To ensure that plastic packaging is recycled appropriately, it is important that plastic packaging waste returned to Ecopoints is carefully sorted according to the sorting instructions.

If you live in a high-rise building or row house with at least five homes, the housing company must have its own container for plastic recycling. It is also possible to have a separate collection bin for plastic packages or a multi-compartment container including plastic collection in a detached house. Read more here.

Most Rinki ecopoints have collection containers for plastic packages. Plastic packages are also received at all waste reception stations.

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