This article explores notions of postsocialism, Europe and waste in relation to each other to understand the changing scripts and standards in Estonia. The research offers important information about the ways in which waste practices have changed (or not) in accordance to EU regulations and standards, and provides significant data to highlight the emergence of controversies and negotiations around this issue across different scales. After examining waste politics in Estonia, the article concludes that for this country, postsocialist transformations implied a break in orders of knowledge, as part of an intensive social negotiation within the framework of the EU. Nonetheless, it also foregrounds that waste practices show relevant continuities and complex scale effects in the new chain of connections and legislation.