In the mid 1990s the company had a disposal problem. Getting rid of the huge amount of waste the factory generated was becoming increasingly difficult. And so they excavated a deep depression in the forest, to the east of the sand quarry, and tipped many tonnes of refuse there. This went on for months.

Besides wood and concrete, an examination of the photographs will show: large crumpled sheets of plastic (polyethylene); twisted pieces of stainless-steel reinforcing rod protruding from the ends of broken concrete units; large chunks of 'Styrox'; discarded steel rod and wire by the kilometre; angle-iron and other forms of steel scrap; plastic buckets and other containers; various other foam-type insulating material in large amounts. But what can't be seen is the several metres of similar rubbish below this surface layer. Down below there are at least two old refrigerators, a stove and many 'empty' oil and chemical containers. It was not possible to monitor the operation all the time - anything at all could be down there. The photographs, which were an afterthought, show the surface layer only.

It was impossible to get an overall view, that would have required aerial photography and a few days after the pictures were made it was all covered with earth. But the site is extensive and hundreds of tonnes of broken concrete and wooden shuttering lies just beneath the surface with every kind of factory refuse imaginable filling the gaps and overlying the larger objects. The only bio-degradable material is wood and some small amount of what looked like domestic refuse.

The final covering with earth, by a bulldozer, was done when the refuse was piled several metres higher than the hole they had made. The result was a substantial mound of refuse thinly covered with earth. Very soon rainwater eroded the surface and fissures opened. It is possible to fall into one of these very easily. And since there are very sharp and jagged steel objects down there it would be possible to sustain serious injury.

Just to the West of this dump lies the sand quarry and its new lake; a few hundred metres to the East there is a river, the 'Kominoja' that runs into the Toivakka lake. When these pictures were taken covering had already started and the last picture shows the operation almost completed. This piece of land has been rendered useless - for anything.