Bottle and can return

Recycling is very common here. These machines are operated by the supermarket. Here you can return the bottles and cans and the machine prints out a receipt which you can use to pay for the purchases made at the supermarket.

40 euro cents for 1.5litre soda bottles

10 euro cents for beer bottles, 330ml

10 euro cents for cans (I guess)

Click the label to see how else Finland recycles. Almost everything recyclable is recycled here...

Recycle 5

This is the last in the series of recycling photos for now. ;-) This clothes recycling bin found next to the glass recycling bins. People are advised to pack the clothes properly in plastic bags before depositing them here. VAATE-KERÄYS = CLOTH COLLECTION

Vandals have hit this as well. 'Moi' is a finnish greeting for Hi.

Recycle 4

This glass recycling bins are found near the Martinlaaskso bus station. The one with the green label is for coloured glass and the other is for transparent ones. Usually there are cash refunds for beer bottles but not for other liqour bottles.

Recycle 3

This is found on the door. The names on the coloured background are in Finnish. The Mixed Waste is collected on Tuesdays and Fridays. Biowaste is on Mondays, Household paper on Thursdays and Mixed fibre packaging is also on Thursdays. Besides these bins, there are other kinds of recycling.

No place for glass and cans in this place. They are found elsewhere in the open.

Recycle 2

The green one's for newspaper and magazines. The other's for cardboard. Besides the three already managed, there are grey ones for general rubbish. Why i mention the colours. Find out tomorrow.

Recycling seems to be the way of life in most parts of Europe. Sad to say, my home country has a lot more to do in recycling.

Recycle 1

The 'shed' in the previous post is the place to dump rubbish and also for recycling. Got this idea to do a series on the many ways people in Finland recycle from keropokman's blog. The bins are colour coded for different types of rubbish. This one's for bio-degradable stuff. It's mainly for left-overs and the phrase 'Takaisin luontoon' means 'Back to nature.'

How active is recycling in your cities?

Important 'Shed'

This building is needed in every housing estate. It is an important structure and apartments would start to smell if this is missing. More on it tomorrow.