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Tallinn’s business tourism website, visittallinn.ee/professional features a new page “ Practical resources ”, which gives event professionals lots of...

A challenging year 2020 has put Estonians and Latvians invented – more than 500 ideas were submitted to Prototron. On 29th of January 2021, the winners of the Autumn 2020 round were announced – a record 120,000 euros were shared between 8 teams. So far Prototron has helped 86 technological solutions bought to market and invested more than one million euros in the implementation of smart ideas.

From this week, a collection campaign for old Christmas trees started in the districts of Tallinn, in which residents can take their trees to collection points free of charge. Depending on the district, the campaign will last until January 25, after which the fir trees will be taken to the Tallinn Utilitas cogeneration plant, where they will turn into green electricity and heat.

Tallinn continues to pursue for the title of European Green Capital in 2023, a total of 16 cities across Europe will apply for this year’s title.

On March 10, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm, City Center Government and City Center New Arrivals Council organizes a webinar for English-speaking Talliners on the topic “Waste sorting and recycling in Tallinn”. The webinar features speakers from the Estonian Ministry of the Environment, the Stockholm Environmental Institute and a social enterprise BinFree. Registration closes on March 9th.

Over the last two weekends of May, a total of 1,444 residents of Tallinn handed over altogether 26.5 tonnes of hazardous waste in the collection campaign, and 1.5 tonnes of reusable items were donated for recycling.

On Monday 6 June at 4 pm, Tallinn Botanical Garden will open its renovated Rock Garden that exhibits the collection of alpine plants.

The Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, who is on a two-day visit to Helsingborg, visited the urban innovation area during the H22 City Expo festival and selected the pavilions of Tallinn, Linz and Oslo for the visit.

The Tallinn City Government decided during today’s meeting that seven locations in Old Town will be leased out to Ringo Eco OÜ, a business specialising in green technology. The aim of this cooperation is to conduct a month-long pilot project to test the collection of reusable packaging in Old Town.

This spring, Tallinn will give out a total of 125 kits of sorted waste collection boxes to 24 city institutions for the purpose of improving and promoting waste sorting in city-managed institutions.