We have discovered we have too much furniture! UK houses have no storage space at all and our new Finnish house has loads...it is great.
Is there a place where we can take all our large bits of furniture and dump them legally? I'm thinking of a tip type place. Is there one in Espoo or can we just leave it our for the bin men to take away?
Hannah
PS Thanks Hank for the Esso van hire place. We have a brand new van on hire for a really reasonable rate...cheers!
Legal dumping!
Re: Legal dumping!
Hi,scoobymcdoo wrote:We have discovered we have too much furniture! UK houses have no storage space at all and our new Finnish house has loads...it is great.
Is there a place where we can take all our large bits of furniture and dump them legally? I'm thinking of a tip type place. Is there one in Espoo or can we just leave it our for the bin men to take away?
Hannah
PS Thanks Hank for the Esso van hire place. We have a brand new van on hire for a really reasonable rate...cheers!
Years ago we rented a van and drove to Ämmänsuo damp place to discard
big furnitures. The place is along the Helsinki-Turku highway, just after
Espoo. They scaled the van with load and without load after we damped, and we had to pay the weight of the load we damped.
If the furnitures are easily disassembled and sawed / broken into small pieces, then you will find your own dust bin more handy.
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There are recycling centres in Finland that takes furniture away, I think for free, they then sell it on cheap to poor people like me. You could also list what you have to get rid of on this forum, there are a lot of people who would take it off your hands. It would be a shame to just dump it.
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Please don't dump it! Take your old furniture to Kierrätyskeskus (recycling center) for free. Or call them, and they'll come pick up your stuff.
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Other than the kierrätyskeskus, other organizations like the Salvation Army (pelastusarmeija) and the Red Cross (SPR) will also gladly take your excess furniture. They may even come and collect it. Also in the capital area Ämmänsuo would be the place to legally dump anything. We took our broken an irrepairable garbage to the landfill here in and they didn't charge us anything. Everything else that we thought could be used we took to the red cross or Eco-center.
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Re: Legal dumping!
You can bring your used furnitures to sortti stations and pay a few euros for them.
The service opens Mon through Fri from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and holidays
More info:
https://www.hsy.fi/en/residents/sorting ... fault.aspx
You may bring:
carton
domestic hazardous waste
wood
sorted renovation and construction waste
paper
mixed waste
metal
impregnated wood
gypsum
glass packages; e.g. glass bottles and glass jars
garden waste and brushwood
electric and electronic equipment
The service opens Mon through Fri from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and holidays
More info:
https://www.hsy.fi/en/residents/sorting ... fault.aspx
You may bring:
carton
domestic hazardous waste
wood
sorted renovation and construction waste
paper
mixed waste
metal
impregnated wood
gypsum
glass packages; e.g. glass bottles and glass jars
garden waste and brushwood
electric and electronic equipment
Re: Legal dumping!
I think that the poster has probably figured out a solution during the last 12 years.