Botniarosk has a total of seven recycling stations and they are open 1-5 days a week. Households, as well as businesses, can bring their waste to the recycling stations and they are easy to visit thanks to our on-site staff who advise on sorting.
For households, most of the waste is free of charge and payment for the waste that is subject to a charge is made with a debit card (no cash acceptance) in the office at the station.
You can leave a maximum of 30 litres of WELL-PACKAGED (tightly sealed plastic bag) asbestos at the recycling station. Larger quantities are delivered to the waste centre in Teuva.
Asbestos is a long-fibrous material that is harmful to health. It can be found, for example, in insulation around old heating pipes and ventilation ducts, in floor mats and ceiling tiles, old roofing felt and facade material.
You can return alkaline batteries and batteries for small appliances free of charge to a battery collection box in a shop that sells batteries or bring them free of charge to a recycling station.
Tape the battery terminals to prevent short circuits, return leaking batteries in a plastic bag.
You can leave a maximum of 1 m3 of brick and concrete at the recycling station at a time and the pieces must be of such a size that they can be carried to the container on site. Larger quantities, and blocks that must be tipped, are delivered to the waste center in Teuva.
✔️ Brick and concrete waste include the following:
• Concrete blocks
• Toilet seats
• Porcelain sinks
• Porcelain vessels (e.g. oven dishes, mugs, plates)
• Tiles
• Roof tiles (must not contain asbestos!)
• Lightweight bricks
❌ The following do not belong in th brick and concrete collection:
• Glass jars and bottles -> Glass packaging collection
• Glass objects -> Flat glass
• Bricks containing asbestos -> Well packaged in the asbestos collection
The combustible waste must not contain bio waste and you can deliver a maximum of 3 cubic metres of combustible waste to the recycling station at any one time. Larger quantities are delivered to the waste centre in Teuva.
✔️ Bulky combustible waste that cannot be recycled and does not fit in the waste container at home. For example:
• Carpets
• Skis
• Tarpaulins
• Furniture
• Plastic garden chairs and other large plastic items
The maximum amount of paper that can fit into ten binders can be brought to the recycling station. The customers themselves insert the documents into the locked container.
When the container is full, it is delivered as is to a destruction facility. The container is not opened or emptied until it reaches the facility. This way, the information is protected.
You can bring a maximum of 1 cubic metre of corrugated cardboard to the recycling station at any one time.
✔️ Dry and clean cardboard is accepted at the recycling centre:
• Corrugated cardboard boxes and discs
❌ Waste that doesn't belong in the corrugated cardboard collection:
• Wet or dirty corrugated cardboard -> Combustible waste
• Carton that isn´t corrugated cardboard -> Carton collection at an eco-point
• Paper -> Collection for paper
• Plastic -> Plastic packages in the plastic packaging collection and other types of plastic in the combustible waste
✔️ The collection of discarded textiles accepts clothes and home textiles that are clean and dry but worn and torn.
❌ The discarded textiles collection does not include:
Bags, shoes, carpets, belts, underwear, padded textiles such as duvets and headgear, soft toys, wet, mouldy and strong-smelling textiles or textiles containing pests -> Combustible waste
At the recycling stations waste fabric is accepted free of charge twice a year. Familiarise yourself with the sorting instructions and dates of our stunt days for fabric waste: Botniarosk stunt days
At the recycling station, a maximum of three identical appliances can be brought per visit and the electrical appliances are sorted as follows:
ELECTRONICS
E.g. vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, hairdryers, electric toothbrushes, electric shavers, coffee machines, toasters, table grills, battery-powered cleaning machines, sewing machines, photocopiers, printers, etc.
LARGE HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES
Dishwashers, washing machines, cookers, ovens, drying cabinet drums, mantles, electric heaters, water heaters, electric cookers, top vacuum cleaners and cooker hoods.
REFRIGERATION APPLIANCES
Ground and air source heat pumps, dehumidifiers, air coolers, air purifiers, iceboxes, refrigerators, freezers, small air conditioners, ice cream machines and electric coolers.
You can take a maximum of 500 litres of flat glass to the recycling station at any one time.
✔️The following is sorted as flat glass:
• Window glass without frames
• Mirrors
• Different types of glass containers (drinking glasses, vases, glass dishes)
❌ The following is not sorted as flat glass:
• Windows with frames -> Waste Centre
• Porcelain containers -> Brick and concrete
GARDEN WASTE
Garden waste is only accepted during the snow-free season.
In Teuva, garden waste is collected at the waste centre, not at the recycling station.
✔️ Garden waste includes:
• Leaves
• Grass
• Garden clearance
• Roots of berry bushes if they fit in an opening no larger than 50 cm x 50 cm
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BRUSHWOOD
Brushwood with a maximum diameter of ten centimetres can be delivered to a recycling station.
Brushwood is only accepted during the snow-free season.
In Teuva, brushwood is collected at the waste centre, not at the recycling station.
✔️ Accepted as brushwood:
• Twigs from trees and bushes
❌ Not accepted as brushwood
• Soil
• Stones
• Stumps
Glass packaging should primarily be returned to an eco-point.
The recycling station accepts a maximum of 30 litres of glass packaging at a time.
The containers must be empty with any lids or corks removed.
✔️ The glass packaging collection includes the following:
• Empty glass jars and bottles from households.
❌ The following waste does not belong to the glass packaging collection:
• Medical packaging such as bottles and vials → Pharmacy
• Plastics → Packaging is to be placed in the plastic packaging collection and other plastics in the combustible waste
• Porcelain, ceramics, glass containers, crystal glass, opal glass (drinking glasses, hobs, coffee pots, lids) → Single items can be put in the combustible waste, larger quantities in flat glass
• Window or mirror glass → Flat glass
• Lamps → Hazardous waste
You can bring a maximum of one oil drum, i.e. 200 litres, of waste oil or oil and water mixture to the recycling station at a time. Other hazardous waste up to 100 kg per trip.
Hazardous waste includes products that may pose a risk to health or the environment:
• Oil and oil filters
• Radiator, brake and clutch fluid
• Car batteries
• Petrol
• Windscreen washer fluid
• Aerosol cans with contents remaining
• Paints and varnishes
• Wood preservatives
• Adhesives
• Solvents (turpentine, thinner, acetone)
• Pesticides
• Sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid and other acids
• Strong detergents and cleaning agents
• Hand sanitiser
• Nail polish and nail polish removers
• Hair sprays and other aerosols
• Insecticides
• Fluorescent lamps and bulbs
• Low energy light bulbs
When handling and storing hazardous waste, do the following:
Store hazardous waste in the original packaging, as it is labelled with the hazardous properties of the substance, and follow the instructions for use, storage and disposal on the packaging. Do not mix, pour down the drain or burn hazardous waste and keep it out of reach of children.
• Impregnated wood planks must be shorter than one metre when brought to the recycling station.
• A maximum of 1 m³ of impregnated wood is accepted at the recycling station per visit.
• Impregnated telephone poles and railway sleepers are only accepted at the waste centre in Teuva.
Landfill waste primarily includes mineral wool and windscreens. You can deliver a maximum of 1 cubic metre of landfill waste to the recycling station per visit. Larger quantities are delivered directly to the waste centre in Teuva.
Small metal items belong to the nearest eco-point, larger metal items are accepted at the recycling centres.
You can take a maximum of 3 m³ of metal to the recycling centre per visit.
✔️ Large metal objects include:
• Bicycles
• Roofing sheets and gutters
• Metal furniture parts
• Metal pipes and cables
• Wood-burning stoves
• Metal machinery and equipment, such as gasoline driven lawn mowers (fuels and oils to be removed)
• Empty and open metal drums
Recycled paper is also accepted at the eco-points.
You do not need to remove staple punches.
Do not tie the paper together with string or packaging tape.
Only white paper bags can be disposed of in the recycled paper collection.
✔️ Recycled paper:
• Newspapers and magazines
• Advertising letters, brochures and similar printed material
• Envelopes (including those with windows)
• Telephone and product catalogues
• Postcards
• Photocopying and printing paper
• White drawing and note paper
❌ The following does not belong in the recycling paper collection bin:
• Books → Combustible waste
• Wet or dirty paper, cardboard or paperboard → Combustible waste
• Brown paper or paper bags → Cardboard collection at an eco-point
• Cash register receipts, plastic, aluminium or wax paper → Combustible waste
• Heavily coloured paper such as gift wrapping → Combustible waste
• Only dry and clean plasterboards and no more than three boards at a time.
• The boards shall be returned as such, not in bags of any kind
• The boards must be free of tiles, disc structures and metal pieces.
• Quantities greater than three plasterboards are delivered to the waste centre in Teuva.
Plastic packaging should primarily be taken to an eco-points:
Rinki eco-points with plastic packaging collection
✔️ Plastic packaging includes plastic boxes and bags used to package products for sale:
• Yoghurt pots and butter tubs
• Shampoo and detergent bottles
• Food packaging for e.g. fruit or meat
• Juice boxes
• Plastic toy packaging
• Plastic packaging of other products
• Plastic bags
• Plastic styrofoam packaging and fillers
❌ The following does not belong in the collection of plastic packaging:
• Cans containing residues of hazardous substances, e.g. oil cans → Empty cans in the combustible waste, cans containing hazardous waste to the hazardous waste collection
• Other than packaging, e.g. toys, kitchen utensils or garden furniture → Combustible waste
• The roofing felt must not contain parts of other materials (e.g. pieces of wood).
• You can deliver a maximum of 50 litres of roofing felt to the recycling station at a time.
• Larger quantities are delivered to the waste centre in Teuva.
Small metal parts such as nails, door handles and hinges do not need to be removed.
A maximum of 3 cubic metres of wood waste can be delivered to the recycling centre per visit.
Larger quantities are delivered to the waste centre in Teuva.
✔️ Wood waste includes:
• Boards
• Planks
• Plywood
• Other types of wooden discs
• Furniture made entirely of wood
❌ Not accepted as wood waste:
• Impregnated wood -> Separate collection at the recycling station
• Furniture with cushions and fabric -> Combustible waste
