Recycling in a student home – tell us your solutions and win a Fiksuruoka gift card!

Bio waste on the balcony, cardboard boxes in the cleaning closet and bottles in the corner? Big or small containers, baskets or boxes? Or something else?

Whether you live in a small or a more spacious home, your everyday life becomes easier when you organize waste sorting smartly. Usually there isn’t enough space for everything in the kitchen’s garbage closet, but with a little creativity, you can make the collection points fit into your home. What’s your innovation?

Tell us how you have solved the recycling of several types of waste. 💡

📷 Take a picture or write a short description of the recycling solutions in your home.

📲 Send us your picture or explanation via Instagram DM.

🏆 Participate by 18 November 2024 and you’ll be in the draw for three 30 € Fiksuruoka gift cards!

Read full terms and conditions below.

Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region sr (later Hoas or Organizer)
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 29, P.O. Box 799, 00101 Helsinki
(09) 5499 00

In the student housing recycling raffle, participants take a picture/pictures or write a description of their waste sorting solutions and deliver them to Hoas. The winners will be chosen by lottery among the participants.

The participant’s sorting solution must include the collection of several types of waste..

The contest is open to persons that are 18 years old or older.

To participate in the competition, one has to send one or more photos or write a description of their waste sorting solutions to @hoas_fi via Instagram DM.

By participating in the student housing recycling raffle, the participant gives Hoas permission to use the materials they have provided in Hoas’ communication and marketing.

The organizer reserves the right not to accept entries that do not present solutions for sorting several types of waste. Entries interpreted as insufficient or inappropriate will be excluded from the draw.

The submission period is from 4th of November to 18th of November 2024.

All participants that have participated according to the rules will have an opportunity to win one of the three 30 € gift cards (value 30  €) to the fiksuruoka.fi online store in a prize lottery. If the prize is not available at the end of the competition, it will be replaced by a similar product.

Organizer chooses winners by drawing lots within all participants on 19th of November 2024.

Winners will be contacted personally through Instagram Direct and prizes will be delivered by email. In addition to the email address, winners must tell their name and home address.

If a winner cannot be reached in two weeks after announcing the winner, a new winner can be chosen. An unused prize is not replaced, and it cannot be exchanged into cash.

Winners will be announced in Hoas’s Instagram account after the competition. The winners’ first names or other nickname can be published on Hoas’s Instagram account, internet page or other Medias without separate consent.

All entrants must abide by these terms and conditions. Possible ambiguities concerning applying and interpreting the terms and conditions will be resolved by the Organizer. The Organizer reserves the right to changes in the terms and conditions. The Organizer has the right to dismiss entries that are against rules or inappropriate in other ways.

The winner of the prize releases the Organizer from any responsibilities caused or claimed to be caused by participating in this competition or by receiving the prize. The winner of the prize also releases the Organizer from all responsibilities pertaining to the future use of the prize or malfunctions appearing in it, as well as all responsibilities relating to injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participating in this competition, or by redeeming or using the prize. This release from responsibility does not, however, weaken the consumer rights granted by the Consumer Protection Act. The responsibilities of the Organizer towards the participants does not exceed the value or quantity of the prize mentioned in these rules.

This competition is not in any way sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram. The competition has nothing to do with Meta.

By participating all participants release Instagram of any responsibility related to the competition.

The Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region sr
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 29
PL 799, 00101 HELSINKI

Contact person in matters regarding the register:

The Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region sr (Hoas)
Saara Saksanen
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 29
PL 799, 00101 HELSINKI

Opiskelijakodin lajittelu -arvonta / Helsingin seudun opiskelija-asuntosäätiö sr.

The data obtained in connection with the competition is used for selecting winners, delivering prizes, compiling statistics, and announcing the winner.

The register contains at its most the following data:

The aforementioned data is collected when contacting the winners of the competition.

Data is not disclosed outside of The Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region and third parties working for it in administering or developing the service or collaborating with it. Data is not transferred or given outside EU or ETA.

The data system and files of the register administrator are secured with technical security methods normally in use in business.

All subjects to the data have a right to review the data concerning oneself and a right to request the rectification of erroneous information. The data subject may exercise their rights by presenting a request about the rights to Hoas in writing. Exercising these rights requires the data subject to prove their identity.