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Household waste turns into new raw materials

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Press release 2021/12/21
SYKE found out where the recyclable waste ends up from the households of the small North Karelian municipality of Juuka. Waste is a valuable raw material and recycling has many positive environmental impacts. Although transport journeys can be long and cause COemissions, the use of waste as a raw material for new products is more environmentally beneficial than making them from natural resources and other primary raw materials.

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Eeva Primmer and Mikael Hildén: Forest management and sustainability need European level collaboration

SYKE’s Professors Eeva Primmer and Mikael Hildén consider Finland’s role in the EU Forest Strategy in their Ratkaisuja blog: Has Finland taken leadership, or has the lobbying resulted in fragmentation?

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SYKE Policy Brief: It is time for sustainability transformation
It is time to move beyond solving environmental problems one by one, to systemic societal sustainability transformations. Sustainability transformation is about rapidly fitting all our societal systems within the carrying capacity of the environment.
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SYKE's experts participate in a wide range of international projects which help build the administrative and management capacities of environmental authorities in developing countries and elsewhere. 

Successes of Finland's waste management

High-quality waste management solutions are prerequisite for preserving a safe and clean living environment. The video represents successes of Finland's waste management.

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