The waste management regulations of South Karelia require the sorting of biowaste in all residential and leisure properties throughout the entire region of South Karelia. If there is no transport service for biowaste or it is not taken to the biowaste containers at regional collection points, it must be composted in a composter in accordance with the waste management regulations (Section 19).
Food waste composting notification
According to the Waste Act (646/2011), small-scale processing of biowaste on a property, i.e. composting in practice, must be reported to the waste management authority no later than two months after the start of the operation. Only composting of food waste must be reported (not garden or dry toilet waste). The information is collected in the composting register maintained by the waste management authority. The information is used, for example, when assessing the implementation of recycling in Finland. In addition, the register improves the monitoring of waste management and notifications can also ensure the proper handling of biowaste, so that, for example, rat problems do not increase.
The notification obligation also applies to leisure properties and properties that compost only part of the year. For a shared composter on several properties, one notification is sufficient, stating all users of the composter in the same notification.
As composting continues, the information must be updated every five years. The waste management authority must also be notified of the cessation of composting within two months of the cessation of operations on the property.
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