Finnish what you start: Sort out your rubbish before dumping it


Like most people in Finland, Mikko Tanner has four different rubbish bins in the small kitchen of his apartment in Etela-Haaga, a small suburb near the Nordic country’s capital of Helsinki. But it’s not because the father of two has a lot to throw away.

He just has to make sure that his rubbish gets thrown into the right places: one bin for mixed waste, another for organic waste, one more for plastic and the last for cardboard and paper. Oh, and he has two other bins in his closet – one for used batteries and the other for glass bottles and cans.

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