Visiting Researcher's Guide - EURAXESS Estonia

8.12 Garbage management
EVERYDAY NECESSITIES
Environment friendly behaviour should be everybody’s responsibility
and waste management is definitely a part of that. If you are
living in a flat in an apartment building, the apartment association
will have a waste collection contract for the whole building.
Paper and metal, as well as plastic and glass bottles can be recycled.
Paper and mixed beverage containers are located in several
places in towns.
Most of beverage bottles, plastic, metal as well as glass, can be
returned for a return fee. The amount of the return is also depicted
on the bottles. shops should be able to provide information
about the nearest collection point.
Containers for old batteries can be found supermarkets and photo
and electronics shops. Oil, oil filters and car batteries can be
returned to containers in petrol stations.
Recycling Centres in Tallinn and Tartu accept old furniture and
other items that are no longer needed in your household but
could be used by someone else. The recycling centre can provide
transportation for larger items.
8.13 Libraries
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Tallinn. Resident. Map of Tallinn
(select Environment for the map of
recycled garbage disposal places)
http://www.tallinn.ee/eng/
Tartu Environmental Education
Centre. Environmental info.
Materials. How to separate garbage
http://www.teec.ee/
Tartu. Info. Survival Guide
http://www.tartu.ee/
Estonian libraries have merged their databases into a joint electronic catalogue. This electronic
database provides information about collections at university libraries, the central libraries in
Tallinn and Tartu as well as the National library of Estonia, the library of the literary Museum,
the Medical library of Estonia, and the Repository library of Estonia.
A reader’s card can be obtained directly in the library. An ID card or passport is required in
order to obtain a reader’s card. Having a reader’s card enables you to borrow books from the