Recycling and sorting
Waste management hierarchy to guide waste management: the order of priority
- First, avoid generating waste.
- If waste is generated, it should be prepared for reuse.
- If reuse is not possible, recycle the waste as material or, as a second choice, as energy.
- Only send waste to a landfill if recycling is not technically (or financially) possible
Waste sorting – real estate waste management
Real estate waste management services entail the following:
- Leftover food
- Coffee filters & teabags
- Paper towels and serviettes
Not these!
- Potable liquids
- Sanitary towels and nappies, ash, cigarettes
- Plastic waste, receipts
- Cleaning waste, vacuum cleaner bags
The Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY) collects the organic waste produced at real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE). The organic waste is composted at HSY’s organic waste processing plant in Ämmässuo, Espoo This process produces soil for landscaping or power and heat.
- Plastic packages of microwave food
- Disposable forks and knives
- Plastic bags
- Almost all consumer packages made from plastic
Not these!
- Folders
- Plastic pockets
- CD discs
- Plastic (no PVC-plastic)
- Paper towels
- Wood
- Other combustible waste
Not these!
- PVC-plastics (plastic covers, transparent)
- Organic waste, garden waste
- Metal, glass, ceramics, procelaine
- CDs DVDs
- Folio-lined cartons
- Impregnated wood
- Oil, acryl, pastel and charcoal paintings and drawings
- Leather
- Nappies and sanitary towels
Lassila & Tikanoja Oy collects energy waste produced at real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE). Energy waste is used to produce fuel for industry. In comparison to mixed waste, energy waste has better efficiency.
The remaining energy waste is burned at the incineration plant in Vantaa. PVC and composite packaging containing aluminium (such as UHT milk cartons and juice cartons, which belong to mixed waste) do not belong in energy waste.
- Glass containers and jars
- Non-returnable glass bottles
- Labels and fasteners do not need to be removed.
Not these!
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Ceramics, porcelain and crystal
- Window panes, mirrors, laminated glass
- Light bulbs and any kind of lamps
- Laboratory glass
Lassila & Tikanoja Oy collects glass waste produced at real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE). The glass waste is transported to a recycling plant in Kerava, where it is used to produce new glass containers, glass wool and foam glass.
Note! Porcelain, crystal glass, mirrors, window glass and heat-resistant glass belong in mixed waste, not in glass waste.
- Tin cans and steel food cans
- Aluminium foil
- Metal bottle caps and lids
- Metal pieces: iron, steel, aluminium
- Other metal waste
Not these!
- Electronic waste
- Batteries and accumulators
- Spray cans
- Fluorescent lamps
- Light bulbs and halogen lamps
Lassila & Tikanoja Oy collects metal waste produced at real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE).
The glass waste is transported to a recycling plant in Kerava, where it is used as raw material. Nowadays, up to 50% of the metal used for new cars is recycled!
- Corrugated cardboard
- Kraft paper
- Brown cardboard
- Brown envelopes
- Brown paper bags
- Tape, labels or staples do not need to be removed
Not these!
- Soft, wet or dirty cardboard
- Plastic, waxed paper, styrofoam
- Foll-lined packaging
- White or colored paper
- White or colored carton
Lassila & Tikanoja Oy collects cardboard waste produced at real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE). The cardboard waste is transported to a recycling plant in Kerava, where it is used as raw material for core paper.
Note! Wet or dirty cardboard and cardboard packages used for fluids are to be sorted as energy waste, not as cardboard.
- Disposable coffee cups
- Carton boxes from salad bars
Not these!
- Gift boxes
- Books
- White office paper
- Envelopes
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Colored paper
- Notebooks
Not these!
- White paper bags, brown paper bags
- Cardboard & carton, copy paper packaging, plastic, waxed paper, styrofoam
- Other non-paper products
Lassila & Tikanoja Oy collects paper waste produced at a real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE). The paper waste is transported to a recycling plant in Kerava.
It is used as raw material for newsprint. Office paper is sorted separately to be used in the manufacturing of tissue paper.
Please sort sensitive and confidential documents in their own bin for data-secure disposal – shredded paper does not qualify as paper waste due to its structure and is to be sorted as energy waste.
- CDs DVDs
- PVC plastic
- Light bulbs and halogen lamps
- Ceramics, porcelain and crystal
- Window panes, mirrors
- Nappies and sanitary towels
- Leather, rubber
Not these!
- Any recyclable waste
- Hazardous waste like fluorescent waste
The Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY) collects mixed waste produced at real estate owned by Aalto University Campus and Real Estate (ACRE). The waste is burned to produce energy at the Vantaan Energia incineration plant.
Mixed waste includes non-recyclable materials, or only includes recyclable materials that cannot be collected for recycling.
Recycling - user of the space
Tenant / the user of the space is responsible for the following waste management:
- All paper waste containing confidential or sensitive information
Not these!
- Non- paper media and equipment e.g. memory sticks, DVDs or CDs, hard drives or mobile phones, computers
- To dipose of these securely, please contact the IT Service Desk. For office removals, please ask for an extra container.
Aalto University has a contract with Paperinkeräys Oy regarding the secure disposal of certain materials containing confidential data, such as paper, diskettes, and hard drives.
You can find the sorting instructions for toner and waste cartridges underneath.
Both are always sorted into separate containers reserved specifically for the type of waste in question.
- Note! Destroying sertificates are not free of charge. You can ask for a separate certificate.
- For example, the battery of the laptop should not be removed when putting it in the collection.
- Ordering waste bins via talovastaava. Lobby services can order the emptying of the bin.
- Order forms from Tanja Pietikäinen/Aalto CRE
[email protected]
Toner cartridge and waste toner containers recycling instructions you can find below.
- Chemical waste
- Paints, lacquer, dissolvent
- Aerosols
Always recycle separately by waste type
Not these!
- Batteries, accumulators
- Fluorescent lamps
- Energy saving bulbs
- Toner cartridges
- Electronic waste
- Medicine to the pharmacy
Sorting into separate containers reserved specifically for the type of waste in question.
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