Waste included in paper collection includes:

  • advertising mail and envelopes (including those with windows)
  • newspapers and magazines (remove cardboard or surface-treated covers for cardboard collection)
  • writing, copying and graph paper
  • telephone directories and product catalogs (remove cardboard or treated covers)
  • paperbacks, books (remove covers)
  • paper food packaging

Household paper is accepted free of charge:

At the municipal and Rinki Ry sorting points

Paper collection points on the kierratys.info map

Kooninkeitaan waste station (also large-sized)

 

Disposal of sensitive paper, such as old documents and paper containing personal information

Papers containing personal data and other private information can be disposed of either by shredding them yourself into mixed waste or, for large quantities of data protection paper, by purchasing a data protection paper destruction service from companies that offer it.

 

Created: June 1, 2020, updated June 24, 2025

Links

Finnish Waste Paper Producer Association , whose operator for producer-responsible paper is Stena Recycling (formerly Paperinkeräys Oy and Encore Palvelut Oy)Report a full paper collection container to housing associations and regional offices
Paper collection points for housing companies Suomen keräystuote Oy
The destruction of confidential documents can be purchased as a service from several different companies.
Paper collection point for housing associations