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Starting Tuesday, 1 April, the Tallinn Circular Economy Center’s waste stations will switch to their spring-summer schedule, which means extended opening hours. The new schedule will remain in effect until 31 October 2025.

The City of Tallinn has submitted its application to become a Zero Waste Candidate City under the Mission Zero Academy (MiZA) certification scheme, makingi it the first Estonian city to join the programme.

Today, the cornerstone will be laid for the Lasnamäe Circular Economy Center, which will provide residents with convenient opportunities to dispose of waste, repair items, and reuse them. The center supports the city's commitment to more efficient waste management and the broader goal of reducing waste and promoting the sustainable use of resources. The center is scheduled to open in 2026.

From 4 April to 2 May, traffic will be closed overnight from 21:00 to 05:00 on a section of Astangu Street (between Astangu Street 1–19) in Tallinn to ensure a safe migration route for frogs heading to nearby ponds to spawn.

Tallinn’s story of a zero-waste Song and Dance Celebration has won the ITB Earth Award 2025 at the Green Destinations Top 100 Story Awards competition, one of the world’s largest tourism fairs held in Berlin. The award highlights Tallinn’s innovation and commitment to sustainability as a tourism destination.

Tallinn is launching the “Ohutu koolitee” (Safe School Route) program to make the streets around every school in the city safer and more supportive of independent mobility for children. In addition to improving street safety, the initiative aims to enhance the overall quality of the surrounding urban space to encourage children to walk more and spend more time outdoors.

Starting today and running through 14 April, all Tallinn residents are invited to submit ideas for improving the city’s living environment.

Due to stormwater and heating pipeline construction works, the section of Kopli Street between Sõle and Ankru streets will be closed to regular traffic starting from 31 March, and several bus lines will be rerouted.

Organisational changes made in the Tallinn Urban Planning Department over the past two years have significantly accelerated planning procedures. In the first quarter of this year, the City of Tallinn made decisions on 20 detailed plans — twice as many as in the same period in 2024 and four times more than in 2023.

The Tallinn City Government has submitted the detailed plan for the Erika 12 property and its surrounding area in Põhja-Tallinn to the City Council for approval. The purpose of the plan is to change the land use designation from commercial and industrial to residential and commercial, and to grant building rights for the construction of six buildings with up to five storeys, featuring ground-floor commercial spaces and apartments above.