Waste disposal
In the area of the city of Äänekoski, the waste management services are handled by the jointly owned municipalities Sammakkokangas Oy. Sammakkokangas Oy informs about exceptional arrangements, waste fractions to be collected and sorting, opening hours of waste centers, campaigns (e.g. garden waste campaigns) and other current issues on their website.
Waste management service tasks
Sammakkokangas Oy handles waste management service tasks in the Äänekoski city area. Service tasks include, for example:
- collection and processing of waste in the operating area
- maintenance and services of the waste center, waste stations and regional collection points
- information and advice on waste management
- waste fee invoicing
Official duties of waste management
In the area of the city of Äänekoski, a joint institution of the municipalities is responsible for the official duties of waste management Heart of Finland waste board and subordinate personnel. Official duties of waste management include, for example:
- monitoring of the obligation to join waste management
- approval of waste management regulations
- processing of applications deviating from waste management regulations
- approval of the waste tax and processing of applications for the waste fee
- determination of waste fee, collection and enforcement
- development of waste management in cooperation with municipalities and the waste company
- issuing official statements when requested
- administration of the waste transport register
Waste management regulations and waste tax (price list)
Phone time
The phone hours for the office holders of the Central Finland Waste Board are from Monday to Thursday between 12:14 and XNUMX:XNUMX. In exceptional situations, phone time may occasionally be missed. Contact primarily jatelautakunta@saarijarvi.fi. We try to process emails as soon as possible in order of arrival.
- Waste management agent phone 050 3903 765 (Tuesday-Thursday)
- Waste management planner phone 044 4598 249 (Mon-Thurs)
Legality monitoring of waste management
In the area of the city of Äänekoski, the legal supervision of waste management is the responsibility of the city's environmental protection authority, i.e. the environmental board and its subordinate personnel In Äänekoski's environmental work. Law enforcement duties include, for example:
- monitoring of compliance with waste management legislation and waste management regulations
- environmental permit matters, monitoring of compliance with permits and authority decisions
- intervention in areas littering and unauthorized waste burning
Area collection and eco points
The locations of regional collection points can be found on the map from the kierratys.info website.
Here you can find information about waste sorting.
Maintained by Ring eco points (also plastic collection).
Frog cloth regional collection points(also plastic collection).
Composting
Äänekoski has already had waste management regulations in force for a long time, according to which bio-waste must be separated from mixed waste on the property. Sorting bio-waste away from mixed waste means either self-composting or joining the separate collection of bio-waste. The sorting obligation also applies to leisure apartments.
The waste authority maintains a so-called compost register. The Central Finland Waste Board must be notified of the start and end of composting using the form found on the Sammakkokangas website. composting noticethrough.
If the authority finds that the sorting of bio-waste on the property does not comply with the waste management regulations, it points out the matter and gives instructions on how to act. The waste board of Sydän-Suomen also conducts random compost checks in the summer and, if necessary, makes a note about the matter.
If the matter is not taken care of despite the request, the authority will set the price for unsorted waste for mixed waste and submit the matter to the municipal environmental protection authority for handling.
Electronic waste is accepted free of charge
Electrical devices that operate on batteries or mains power can be taken to the electrical equipment collection point. These include computers, televisions, coffee makers, mobile phones, microwave ovens, cookers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, hairdryers, flashlights, refrigerators, freezers, solar lights, etc.
- Another name for electrical equipment is SER, or electrical and electronic waste.
- Broken electrical equipment is producer-responsible waste, so stores that sell electrical equipment are obliged to accept electrical equipment.
- The offices maintained by Sammakkokanka, i.e. the waste center and sorting stations receive electrical appliances free of charge.
Collection of disposable textiles and textile waste in Äänekoski
Textile waste according to the Waste Act, the collection must be collected as a new fraction from 1.1.2023 January XNUMX. Sammakkokangas also starts the collection of disposable textiles in Äänekoski in cooperation with Kierrätysmylää Ekocenter.
Ekocenter Recycling store, os. Rautatienkatu 50, Äänekoski
