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The recycling of household waste has become more efficient in many municipal areas in Finland The recycling rate of household waste has increased in almost all municipal areas that have been monitored in the period 2016–2021 (some of the municipalities have been monitored from 2018–2021). The ...	2022-12-15
Preliminary estimates: Municipalities’ climate emissions decreased by 3.1% in 2021 According to calculations by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipalities’ total climate emissions decreased by 3.1 per cent in 2021 from the previous year. Emissions decreased in nearly a...	2022-11-22
Regions play an important role in steering climate work – the most effective measures have been compiled into model road maps Regional climate work supports and brings together local actors in the implementation of practical climate action. The Finnish Environment Institute together with the Natural Resources Institute Finla...	2022-08-31
Defense: Making invisible cows? – Genomic knowledge and more-than-human agency in Finnish dairy breeding Doctoral dissertation examines livestock breeding from the perspective of social science. Breeding goals impact cattle, dairy farmers, and the relations between farmers and cows. Livestock breeding cu...	2022-08-23
European countries provide a variety of solutions to the plastic challenge European countries are taking action to promote the circular economy of plastics and to prevent their negative impacts. The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE examined the selection of measures in dif...	2022-08-11
Information concerning the environmental impacts and health effects of plastics is lacking – more data is needed especially on health effects and impacts on terrestrial environment Information on the environmental impacts and health effects of plastics is still lacking, tells a recent study by the Finnish Environment Institute and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. Pl...	2022-06-09
Dissertation: Towards circular economy in wastewater management – Environmental impacts, benefits and drawbacks of improved nutrient recovery and recycling by source separation According to the dissertation, source separation of wastewater would significantly increase the efficiency of nutrient recovery from wastewater. Meanwhile, the climate impact of wastewater treatment w...	2022-06-09
Expert group: Use nutrients in wastewater to safeguard food production during the fertiliser crisis Food security and nutrient self-sufficiency can be improved by enhancing nutrient recycling. A group of leading experts in agriculture, food production and the environment proposes a set of measures t...	2022-05-31
Sorting of household waste in rural areas improved in North Karelia The raising of awareness, resident cooperation and improvement of waste management infrastructure have improved waste sorting and reduced the amount of mixed waste in villages in North Karelia.	2022-05-12
Municipalities’ climate emissions decreased by 8.7% in 2020 According to the calculations by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipalities’ total climate emissions decreased by 8.7% in 2020 from the previous year.	2022-05-05
Household waste turns into new raw materials The WasteLess Karelias project, funded by the Karelia CBC programme, revealed that all plastic, glass, cardboard and metal waste sorted in Juuka is treated either in Finland or abroad. Recycling produ...	2021-12-21
Stronger management of hazardous chemicals is needed in industry There is a clear need to increase the knowledge of the industrial sources of hazardous chemicals and to apply measures to reduce their use and emissions to the environment. Project HAZBREF proposes a ...	2021-12-17
Pollutant Release and Waste Transfer Data for Finnish Industry and Agriculture published in the map service Information on the largest sources of pollutant releases and waste transfers for Finnish industry and agriculture can now be found in the public data service at prtr.fi. The purpose of the map service...	2021-12-15
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. This is the message of the SYKE Policy Brief published today. Sustainability t...	2021-12-09
Environmental marketing claims in Finland – an ongoing research by SYKE The Finnish Environmental Institute SYKE has collected a sample of environmental claims in internet advertisements during autumn 2021. The share of internet in advertising has continuously grown and w...	2021-12-08
SYKE collects environmental claims in advertising – take part in a research! An ad that sparked more questions than answers? SYKE collects examples of environmental advertising form the public.	2021-11-15
Research: Recycling the metals and minerals of smartphones and televisions is difficult, design is key Great expectations are being set for digital solutions to reach climate targets, but their environmental impacts are not widely known. For example, the demand for critical raw materials used in smartp...	2021-11-02
Municipalities’ climate emissions decreased by 7.4% in 2020 According to a preliminary data calculation by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipalities’ total climate emissions decreased by 7.4% in 2020 compared to the previous year.	2021-08-16
Actions to reduce pharmaceutical emissions in the Baltic Sea region Since 2017 CWPharma project has worked to gather and produce data on the consumption of pharmaceuticals and their concentrations in the environment, to identify the most problematic compounds and to f...	2021-06-21
Municipalities’ climate emissions decreased by 5.5% in 2019 According to a recent calculation by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipal climate emissions decreased by 5.5 per cent in 2019 compared to the previous year.	2021-05-31

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