The nature destinations of the Helsinki metropolitan area can be visited this year on a total of 130 nature tours. Information on these tours is compiled in the 2019 Metropolitan Nature Calendar, which lists tours in the area from April through October–November.

A new video on waste sorting, entitled “Thank you for sorting your waste”, is primarily targeted at newcomers to Finland and residents of the Helsinki metropolitan area learning about waste sorting. But the video also serves as a useful reminder of the rules of waste sorting to all others.

The metropolitan policy is a policy to solve special issues of the Helsinki Region and to strengthen the competitiveness of the region and Finland as a whole. Systematic planning of land use, housing and transport is of crucial importance for the development of the Helsinki Region.

This year, HSY’s collection vehicles tour in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and Kirkkonummi from 1 April to 5 June. You can bring domestic hazardous waste, electronic devices and scrap metal to the vehicles free of charge.

The pricing of public transport tickets in the HSL area will fundamentally change on 27 April when the old fare zones based on municipal boundaries are replaced by the new zones. Internal, regional and extended regional tickets will become a thing of the past and instead, tickets will be purchased for zones A, B, C and D.