Responsibility

Pirkanmaan kierrätys ja työtoiminta ry is a non-profit, ideologically unaffiliated and public-benefit association based in Tampere, whose purpose is to offer households and communities in Pirkanmaa an effortless and reliable channel for reusing goods and materials.

 Our core principles are ecological, social and economic responsibility.

Our association has cooperated extensively with various actors and projects.

These cooperation partners include, among others: 

Lielahden yrittäjät ry, TITRY ry, Etappi ry, Artteli-kumppanuusyhdistys, Suomen kierrätyskeskusten yhdistys ry, RENET Uudelleenkäyttöverkosto ry, Nextiili ry, Sopimusvuori ry, Ekokumppanit Oy, Rautasoini Oy, Revisol Oy, Ammattiopisto Luovi, Hiedanrannan oppimiskylä, the City of Tampere, Pirkanmaan jätehuolto, the Criminal Sanctions Agency, the Finnish Immigration Service, the Finnish Environment Institute, the CIRCWASTE project and the KIERTO project. 

We at Pirkanmaan kierrätys ja työtoiminta ry want to take part in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Agenda 2030 program as well. Listed below are the goals that we particularly promote in our work.

1. No poverty

We promote this goal by offering work and education to people in a difficult employment situation, and we enable and improve their opportunities for finding employment.

4. Quality education

We promote this goal by offering the opportunity to complete on-the-job learning and traineeship periods as well as various parts of a qualification.​

8. Decent work and economic growth

We promote this goal by offering our employees a safe working environment and by increasing the opportunities for young people and aging people in particular in the field of education and employment. 

12. Responsible consumption

We promote this goal by offering the people of Pirkanmaa an effortless and reliable forum for recycling surplus goods and for making ecologically sustainable affordable purchases, and we also take care of our part in recycling materials not suitable for reuse.

17. Partnerships for the goals 

We promote this goal by creating and maintaining partnerships with various parties, among other things through cooperation and various projects.

The City of Tampere is one of our most important cooperation partners, and we want to highlight our support for the Carbon-Neutral Tampere 2030 roadmap drawn up by the City of Tampere. The association's activities particularly support theme 5 of the roadmap, Sustainable consumption, whose benefit target by 2030 is “Consumption is sustainable and the circular economy works”.

Of the action sets under theme 5, sustainable consumption, we particularly promote the following through our own activities: 5.1. Waste management, 5.2. Circular economy, 5.3. Economical consumption and 5.6. Increasing environmental awareness. You can explore the roadmap and its themes in more detail here.

On our pages you will also find the Circular Economy Blog, where you can read more about, for example, sustainable development or responsibility communication.

In the blog we open up the different aspects of our activities and write about current topics. Not many posts have accumulated yet, and we are happy to receive wishes and ideas for the topics of upcoming posts.