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Helena Dahlbo, SYKE: Better recycling helps mitigate the problems with plastics

Plastics are pointed out as the main culprit, something to be urgently eliminated. But is it really the materials that are at fault? And what can we do, writes senior research scientist Helena Dahlbo ...

2018-01-19
Ten municipalities to become forerunners of the circular economy

Ten Finnish municipalities − Ii, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Lahti, Lappeenranta, Porvoo, Riihimäki, Rovaniemi, Turku and Vantaa − have committed themselves to promoting the circular economy in an ambitious an...

2017-11-23
Circular economy to put the economy on a sustainable track

"Circular economy will play a key role when the societies of the future migrate toward more sustainable production and consumtion", envisions Finnish Minister of the Environment Kimmo Tiilikainen.

2017-08-29
At the leading edge of Circular economy

“Finland wishes to be the leader in circular economy by 2025. Real-life measures have been in demand to support discussion and visions, and the Circwaste project addresses this demand", says Tuuli Myl...

2017-06-02
From recycling to circular economy—Draft national waste plan published

The national waste plan introduces means for reducing the amount of produced waste, improving the recycling level, increasing material efficiency and promoting circular economy during the next six yea...

2017-06-01
Public procurements are leverage in circular economy

Municipalities would achieve significant cost savings and increase their material efficiency if new raw materials were to be replaced with recycled and reusable ones or if industrial co-products were ...

2017-06-01
Something borrowed

Projector. Video projector. Sound reproduction equipment. Spotlights. Fog machine. Mirror balls. The cultural and arts producers in Central Finland borrow equipment from each other if it were too expe...

2017-05-30
Circular thinking to the dinner table

People in Finnish households throw 20-25 million kilos of food away, totalling 120-160 kilos. In the Circwaste project, the Natural Resources Institute of Finland (LUKE) promotes the circular economy ...

2017-05-30
Tweeting and singing bin

The new Kangas residential area in Jyväskylä will integrate smart functions in waste management in the city’s Circwaste sub-project. Locked, deep collection container groups that open with residence-s...

2017-05-30
Composite products from recycling materials

Kompotek Oy is building a pilot plant in Lappeenranta, next to the Etelä-Karjalan Jätehuolto waste management facility, to manufacture bio-composite products from recycled materials. In the Circwaste ...

2017-05-30

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