Instructions when visiting a waste reception station

Sort your waste at home beforehand. The Sorting Guide provides answers to sorting questions.

Bring your customer card with you to the station. By downloading Stormossen’s app to your smartphone, you can always carry the customer card with you.

The self-service stations’ gates opens with Stormossen’s customer card.

Heavy and large waste items that cannot be lifted without lifting equipment, as well as large amounts of waste, must be brought to Stormossen’s waste reception station in Koivulahti. The other stations do not have lifting equipment.

• Used tires should be taken to one of Finland’s tire recycling collection points.
• Old or unused medications should be taken to a pharmacy. Instructions for pharmaceutical waste can be found on Fimea’s website.
• For explosives, ammunition, or weapons, contact the police. Unused fireworks should be returned to the seller. In unclear cases, contact the police.

The safest place for children under 12 at the waste reception station is inside your own car.

Leave hazardous waste in its original packaging or clearly labelled with what the sealed package contains. At the self-service stations there are strict instructions for dropping off hazardous waste.

The compactors for e.g. paper and cardboard packaging have small openings for safety reasons. Flatten the waste before placing it in the compactor.

For safety reasons, it is strictly forbidden to enter or be inside a waste container at a waste reception station.

Any waste brought to the waste reception station becomes the property of the waste management company. It is not permitted to remove waste from the station, exept for items from the reuse area (Bytestorget/Ota tai jätä) at Malax, Vörå and Oravais waste reception stations.

Please keep the station tidy. Do not leave waste on the ground.