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The reconstruction of Varraku Street, which began in April 2024, is now complete, transforming the street into a safer and more pedestrian-friendly space.

During the European Week for Waste Reduction in November, residents of Tallinn donated nearly 3,000 kilograms of household items for recycling. The collection campaign was organised in cooperation between the Re-Use Centre and the City of Tallinn.

People’s awareness on environmental issues expands with every year and with it an interest in sorting household waste. Thus, it is important to reiterate the principles for sorting waste in order to keep our environment clean and to promote waste recycling and reusing.

In Tallinn, a total of around 250,000 disposed medical masks and respirators have been collected in five months in mask collection bins and then diverted for reprocessing.

Tallinn public space will be equipped with a hundred collection bins for collecting disposable face masks in order to reduce the number of masks discarded as plastic waste.

On May 3rd, the second season of the sea waste skimmer Seabin was opened at the quay of the Tallinn Old City Harbour. The environmental education activities of the Tallinn Seabin have been selected as the partnership events of the European Union's Green Week 2021 to highlight the threat of marine litter to the aquatic environment.

Tallinn will distribute a total of 100 separate waste collection kits to 17 educational institutions in this spring, with an aim to improve the efficiency of separate waste collection in schools and hobby schools.

Among household waste, Tallinn residents are most often sorting paper and cardboard, returnable packaging and hazardous waste.

In the business sector during the past year, supporting commercial operators affected by COVID-19 restrictions was a main priority for Tallinn. Various circular economy projects were also launched.