Waste management
As a waste management authority in Mikkeli, the Urban Development Committee operates within the service area of housing and environmental management. The supervisory authorities for waste management are the Mikkeli Region Environmental Board and the South Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centre).
The duties of a waste management official are carried out by the Waste Inspector, who, among other tasks, decides on extensions to property-specific waste collection intervals and on the waiving or adjustment of waste fees.
Statutory waste management services are provided by Metsäsairila Oy, a waste management company owned by the City of Mikkeli.
The role of Metsäsairila Oy includes maintaining the regional waste treatment facility (the Metsä-Sairila Waste Centre), managing the recycling of recoverable waste in the area, overseeing hazardous waste management, maintaining and developing the waste collection network in Mikkeli’s sparsely populated areas, developing regional waste management, and providing waste advisory and information services.
You can find the contact details of the waste management authority on the Finnish-language website. And you can find the application forms (in Finnish) on the application form page.
Metsäsairila
Metsäsairila provides households in Mikkeli with waste disposal services.
Metsäsairila arranges collection, transportation, reception, handling and processing of household waste.
Metsäsairila English language website
Sign up to use waste disposal services
- Each and every property must have a waste disposal arrangement in place.
- For housing companies, the waste disposal agreements are managed by the building manager or the housing company’s board.
- Detached houses and semi-detached houses may have their own waste container or a shared container together with neighbours (joint waste collection arrangement). If a property is located in a non-built-up area, the property owner/holder may sign up to utilising an area waste collection point.
- The biowaste sorting obligation concerns all residential properties, whether permanent homes or leisure homes/holiday apartments. For disposal of biowaste, the following four alternatives are available: the property’s own biowaste container, shared biowaste container, area-specific biowaste collection or composting.
- If you compost your biowaste on your own property, you need to notify us by submitting a composting notification.
- You can access waste management information concerning your property on the Omasairila online service.
- Please contact our customer service by phone (+358 44 722 2300) or by e-mail (jatehuolto@metsasairila.fi).