A Baltic Sea, which threatened to dump on the decline, acid rain, Chernobyl cesium residual, poison skidding across the Russian border.

Admittedly, many of the Finnish environmental problems are not homemade. But pollution does not work now at the country’s boundaries.

According to the UN environmental conference in 1972 and, last but not least favored by the Waste Management Act of 1994, and environmental protection in Finland is made more precise and seen as a civic duty.
A system of national parks and nature reserves were set up to preserve pristine nature, restrictive laws prohibit the clear cutting of wooded areas, extensive a forestation began, the emission standards are strict.
A model for the rest of Europe are the regulations on deposit bottles and cans. Since 1996 are numerous outlets easy to use deposit machines.

Great attention is given to the development and deployment of new technologies for recycling of industrial waste, building rubble, sewage sludge, waste from agriculture and forestry and other substances made.

In the center of Finnish environmental policy, the purification of water. Thus, the phosphorus load since 1972 at about 80%. over 80% of Finnish lakes are due to their quality internationally in the categories “excellent” or “good” here.

Finland has recognized that it is necessary in terms of international environmental cooperation. So 1991 was Finland hosted the 1st Ministerial Conference on the Protection of the Arctic environment in Rovaniemi.

A largely intact nature, that is the trump card to Finland as a tourist attraction has to offer. And that remains so, are local tour operators to protect the environment according to the polluter pays principle will be halted. Tourists and visitors are invited Finland, also from Anyone entstehenenden rights obligations and all recycling opportunities.

Long, not all problems solved. Not all the waste or waste lands in the container provided or will be disposed of. Middle of the forest and get to push back on a wild Kippe or abandoned car. If the offender is caught threatening hefty fines.

Clearly, however, is the intense effort to improve the quality of the environment continues to improve.