What can you bring to the Sortti collection vehicle for hazardous waste?
Hazardous waste (formerly problem waste)
Hazardous waste includes, among other things, energy-saving light bulbs, paints, solvents, cleaning chemicals and batteries.
What can you not bring to the HSY collection vehicles?
Other waste, such as electrical appliances, metal and mixed waste. These can be taken to our Sortti Stations, for example.
Trailers / large loads of hazardous waste. These can be taken to our Sortti Stations.
Pressure impregnated wood: small quantities can be delivered to Sortti Stations or to a reception location of Kestopuu Oy. Larger quantities must be delivered to the Ämmässuo eco-industrial centre or directly to the terminal of Demolite Oy.
Fireworks, emergency flares, explosives, ammunition and weapons must be delivered to the location indicated by the police, apart from emergency flares, which can be delivered to the stores selling them.
Medications must be delivered to a pharmacy.
Deliver gas cylinders to Sortti Stations or the Kivikko Hazardous Waste Reception Station and barrels of hazardous waste to the Kivikko Hazardous Waste Reception Station (open weekdays 7 am–4 pm).
Car tyres: See the collection points of Finnish Tyre Recycling Ltd.
Asbestos: see instructions
How to use the Sortti collection vehicle service
- If you arrive before the collection vehicles, park to the side and leave space for the trucks.
- Wait and keep a safe distance until the platforms are lowered.
- Hand over the waste only to the staff wearing HSY's yellow safety vests.
- Sort the waste in advance into separate bags or boxes. Assistance is available on-site if needed.
- We do not accept plastic bags, sacks, or boxes used for transporting waste, so please dispose of them in your home waste bin or take them to a Rinki ecopoint.
- Waste must not be left at the stop in advance.
- For larger quantities, such as a trailer load, take them to the Sortti stations.
During the spring collection vehicle tour, we accept three different types of waste from households free of charge:
- Hazardous waste (formerly problem waste)
- Waste electrical and electronic equipment
- Metalscrap