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The City of Tallinn has allocated an additional €2.4 million to the total cost of street repairs coordinated by the Tallinn Urban Environment and Public Works Department. In 2025, the total budget for road maintenance and repairs will amount to €15.4 million.

This year, the City of Tallinn will install more benches than usual, primarily to improve independent mobility for the elderly. New benches will be added not only to the streets of the city centre and other districts but also to parks and green spaces.

Construction works on Odra Street are nearing completion, and the street will be reopened to traffic starting Monday, 19 May. Bus routes 54 and 67 will also return to their normal routes.

The Tallinn City Government has submitted the city’s 2025 supplementary budget proposal to the City Council, which would increase the total city budget by approximately €8.2 million. If adopted, the revised budget for 2025 will amount to €1.3 billion.

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.