The prevalent situation in Kolari is thatthe mixed waste is transported
to the local waste transfer station where the unsorted MSW
is compressed and packed to containers and transported 187 km to
landfill in Tornio (yellow arrow on Fig. 5). As the bio-waste collection
for composting in Kolari is only seasonal and regional, most of
the bio-waste is in the mixed waste fraction and taken to Tornio.
Due to the tightening legislation,theprevalent situationisnotlikely
to be continued