Finnish mixed waste bags are still bulging from bio -waste, but it is still better
Recycling|The content of a mixed waste bag contains less bio -waste. The background is influenced by the expanded bio -waste collection obligation last year.
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Finnish mixed waste bags contain 29 % bio -waste, which is 3.1 percentage points less than in 2023.
The Finnish Circular Power estimates that more than 100,000 tonnes of households will end up in mixed waste than in the early 2020s.
The reduction in bio -waste is explained by the increase in separate collection, which last year expanded to all properties in urban areas with more than 10,000 inhabitants.
Finnish Household mixed waste bags have less and less bio -waste, according to the Finnish circulation (KIVO) measurement for public waste management and municipal waste facilities.
According to the measurement, an average of 29 % of the content of the mixed waste bag is 29 %. The share has fallen by 3.1 percentage points from the 2023 level.
« It’s really a significant change. There is almost a third of that to be worried about that, » Kivo’s leading expert Timo Hämäläinen says to STT.
The Kivo announcement estimates that households will end up in more than 100,000 tonnes of households than the early 2020s in mixed waste. Both the total amount of household mixed waste and the share of bio -waste in the mixed waste bag have fallen in recent years.
Information on the composition of mixed waste bags is based on studies by municipal waste companies, which KIVo assembles in a composition database. According to Kivo, the data covers more than half of Finland’s population. They can be used to evaluate the average composition of household mixed waste nationwide.
Rock According to the decrease in bio -waste among mixed waste explains the increase in separate collection. There are already nearly 670,000 Finnish households in the separate collection of bio -waste.
The bio -waste collection obligation in Finland tightened in July last year. The obligation extended to all properties in urban areas with more than 10,000 inhabitants.
According to Hämäläinen, the recycling of bio -waste has already become possible for most Finns. Mostly outside detached houses outside large agglomerations are left out.
“Further development in improving recycling is more about changing everyday practices than expanding the availability of bio -waste bins,” says Hämäläinen.
Häme According to the bio -waste that ends up in the bag is more explained by factors other than the lack of sorting. The causes are focused on consumer behavior. These are the habits of many.
“Even if new guidelines come in, not everyone changes their activities in everyday life, as are not the case with other daily chores,” says Hämäläinen.
Kivo has launched a national campaign to encourage biowaste sorting, part of the Finnish Biotalot project, partly funded by the Ministry of the Environment.
Separate collection from bio -waste produces energy, fuels and nutrients, the Kivo bulletin states. For example, in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, biogas and compost soil are made from biowaste.
