Waste management service fees 2023

‍The Sortti Stations in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Kirkkonummi are waste recycling stations. When you bring your old furniture, garden waste and scrap metal to our Sortti Stations, they will be processed and recycled into materials or energy. Our goal is to have an even larger amount of waste materials recycled into raw materials for new products. Materials with no existing recycling solutions can be used to generate heat and electricity.

Thank you for sorting your waste, let’s recycle together!

For information on waste subject to a charge or free of charge, see the table below. Use the eSortti.fi service to declare and pay for your materials in advance. You can also use the service solely to calculate the price of your waste load.

Sortti Stations accept payment with the most common payment cards or by invoice, either as self-service or at the service desk. We do not accept cash.

1. When arriving at the Sortti Station, sign up at the service desk.
   
2. Let the employees know the type and quantity of waste you are bringing in.
   
3. Unload the waste from the vehicle and place it on the waste skips. Follow our sorting instructions. If necessary, ask the employees for advice. Please note that we cannot offer assistance in unloading the waste.

For more information, please visit our webpage Sortti Stations.

Please note that Sortti Stations cannot be accessed with lorries or combination vehicles that are more than two metres wide or more than 10 metres long. Such loads should be transported to the Ämmässuo eco-industrial centre.

Renting a trailer for waste transport

Private customers can rent a trailer from a Sortti Station for transporting waste to the station. You can rent the trailer for three hours. The trailer cannot be used for transporting the topsoil sold at the Sortti Stations. The rental fee is €5 if you use the trailer to bring your waste to the Sortti Station. Waste reception is subject to a fee according to our price list.

If the rental time exceeds three hours or the trailer is not used for bringing waste to the Sortti Station, a €40 daily fee is charged from the beginning of the rental time. More information and reservations:

• on HSY’s website: Renting a trailer or
• by calling our customer service tel. +358 (0)9 1561 2110. Our service hours are from 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 8.30 to 11.00 a.m. on Tuesdays and from 1.00 to 3.30 p.m. on Thursdays.

Waste free of charge

We charge no fees for separately sorted

• carton and cardboard;
• domestic hazardous waste;
• glass packages (bottles and jars);
• metal;
• paper;
• electric and electronic equipment.

Waste liable to charge

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We charge for individual items, such as an armchair, spring mattress or sofa, according volume.

Asbestos is received only at the Ämmässuo Sortti Station, the price is €10 for every new 100 litres.

*Garden waste, brushwood, apples and invasive species must be sorted in separate collection points. Please note that if the size of the garden waste load exceeds 5 m3, the price of two loads must be paid for it.

Please note that you will be liable to pay the cleaning charge below if you fail to sort your waste correctly at the Sortti Station and we need to do extra sorting and cleaning.

Insulation wool

• Sort rock and glass wool on the non-combustible mixed waste skip or on a separate collection skip.
• Sort blown wool onto the combustible mixed waste skip.

Gypsum

• Gypsum waste must be clean and dry.
• Do not deliver powdered gypsum in sacks.
• The gypsum boards must be fee of any slabs, wooden constructions or metal.

Mineral material

• Asphalt
• Concrete
• Tile
• Stone
• Soil
• Topsoil
• Bricks

Plastic

• Plastic items
• Plastic membranes
• Styrofoam and PVC are not accepted for plastic collection; they must be sorted as mixed waste.

Non-combustible waste

• Window and mirror glass
• Porcelain and glassware
• Toilet seats, sinks and tubs
• Gypsum board containing impurities.
• Do not place metal items in non-combustible waste.

Combustible mixed waste

• Spring mattresses
• Plastic piping
• Armchairs and sofas
• Styrofoam
• PVC
• Refuse sacks containing mixed combustible waste
• Sort large (over 50 x 50 x 100 cm) and small combustible mixed waste on separate skips.
• Do not place metal items in combustible mixed waste.

Wood, pressure-treated

• Railway sleepers
• Terrace slabs and boards
• Pieces of telephone and electricity poles
• Garden furniture

Wood, coated

• Chipboard and hardboard
• Painted and varnished wood
• Parquet, MDF board
• Wooden furniture and doors
• No need to remove nails or fittings. Remove larger pieces of metal, fabric and glass.

Wood, uncoated

• Pallets
• Raw board
• Clean wood
• Plywood board and laminated veneer lumber

Garden waste and brushwood

• Apples, plums (garden biowaste)
• Separate from other garden waste. We only accept apples and plums in the autumn.
• Raking waste
• Chipped brushwood
• Leaves and grass
• Other biodegradable garden waste
• Vegetable scraps
• Stumps and rootstalks
• Clean sawdust, cutter chips, peat Raking waste should not contain soil.
• Branches
• Fir and pine twigs
• Trees
• Hawthorn
• Tree trunks
• Roses
• Invasive species
• Garden waste containing invasive species must be packed before delivery. It is sorted as mixed waste.