Recycling tips for Christmas

How do you dispose of ham fat?

If you’re roasting Christmas ham, turkey or fish, you can easily dispose of cooking fat. If the fat is congealed (not liquid) or you can abrorb it in tissue paper, you can put it in the biowaste container. If the fat is liquid, pour it into a sealed container, such as a used milk carton or plastic jar, and place it in mixed waste.

Please keep in mind you shouldn’t pour the fat down the drain.

Wrapping paper sorted as mixed waste

Colourful wrapping paper is sorted as either mixed waste or energy waste. Any kraft paper or recycled brown paper, which has been used to wrap Christmas presents, can be put in cardboard recycling.

How do I sort candy boxes?

Cardboard candy boxes can be recycled for cardboard collection in the same way as other cardboard packaging. The plastic trays, plastic candy paper and plastic wrappers for packaging, on the other hand, are put into plastic collection.

How can I recycle broken Christmas lights?

Christmas lights shining outside will delight the whole neighborhood! Please make sure that the lights you get for your yard or balcony are suitable for outdoor use.

When the lights have reached the end of their lifespan, i.e. the cable is damaged or the lights are otherwise broken, take them to the collection of waste electrical and electronic equipment, i.e. the WEEE collection. They can be found in department stores selling electrical appliances and recycling points in shopping centres. You can also check the collection points on the kierratys.info website.

Where should you put your tree after Christmas?

In many municipalities Christmas trees can be left next to the rubbish collection point where they’ll be picked up for free. This varies across Finland, however, so please check your local waste management practices online:

See the instructions for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

See the instructions for Porvoo and Sipoo

See the instructions for Oulu and Kempele

See the instructions for Turku

See the instructions for Tampere region

See the instructions for Jyväskylä (in Finnish)

See the instructions for Vaasa

See the instructions for Hämeenlinna, Nurmijärvi and Tuusula

See the instructions for Rovaniemi (in Finnish)