KiertoLa offers flexibility

Photo: LHJ. Sorting in KiertoLA is easy.

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Loimi-Häme Waste Management's new sorting station, KiertoLa, serves customers with a new concept. The aim is to make recycling easy and enjoyable for the customer.

Loimi-Häme Waste Management (LHJ) KiertoLassa opening in October You can do your business even in the middle of the night. The sorting station located in Jokioinen, near Forssa, serves households and small businesses around the clock, every day of the year.

You can report your waste load and make any payment in advance in the online store or at a payment machine on site. Traditional dealings with staff are also possible on weekdays between 10 am and 17 pm.

Another new feature compared to before is that sorting takes place indoors. The approximately 3,700 square meter hall has a total of 37 sorting locations for, among other things, incinerated waste, packaging waste, metals, construction and demolition materials, and hazardous waste. Separate collection of hard plastic will be started as a new material, which has not been available in the Forssa region until now.

Photo: LHJ. When driving into the hall, the gate opens with license plate recognition.

"We want to keep the threshold low. It's easy to bring just batteries or packaging plastic here when you go to the store, you don't have to have a trailer full of stuff," says the logistics and communications manager. Mirva Black Rock.

Mustakallio has been responsible for the procurement of the sorting station's collection equipment and the visual appearance of the interior. New types of presses are in use, which have been selected with emphasis on comfort in addition to safety.

Models from Ostrobothnia

Before building the sorting station, LHJ surveyed the wishes of the local residents. They also visited the Lakeuden Etap sorting station in Seinäjoki to take a model.

"Exchanging information with municipal waste management companies is very straightforward, which is simply a blessing. We also recently had guests from Southwest Finland Waste Management," Mustakallio says.

The construction of KiertoLa cost approximately eight million euros. In the interior design, special attention was paid not only to functionality and safety, but also to visual appeal.

Even the name of the sorting station has its own meaning. Managing Director Immo Sundholmin The first part of the coined word KiertoLa refers to the recycling industry and the rest to the sorting station. This gave rise to other names for the place, such as the self-service point MaksuLa, the garden waste collection area PuistoLa, and the hazardous waste collection area EkoLa.