Warehouses around the country now hold about 100 million kilograms of paper awaiting recycling. That represents two months' worth of raw material for the nation's paper industry, which will convert it into newsprint, soft papers and cartons.
However the piles of paper will not all be used in Finland. Some is being exported, mostly to Central Europe.
Pentti Ahnger, CEO of Finland's biggest recovered paper producer and merchant, Paperinkeräys, says that recycling operations have returned to normal.
Finns recycle 73 percent of all paper used. That is the highest rate in Europe besides in Germany.
Paper mills restarted in early July following a seven-week shutdown. During the drawn-out series of strikes and lockouts at paper mills, warehouses filled with four times the normal volume of paper. The situation was estimated to cost the sector around a million euros in losses.