In 2019, Lappeenranta drew up a master plan for a meadow network to increase the biodiversity of the urban environment by converting grass areas into […]
The Need While the world is investing unprecedented efforts to stir the wheels of the current economy into a more circular and sustainable one, the […]
Cities only occupy 3% of the land area but produce 80% of the GDP and 90% of innovation, however, they also produce a lot of […]
Promoting and enabling reuse, upcycling and do it yourself – this is what the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Reuse Centre is about. The centre employs 450 […]
Would people become more eager to recycle plastic if they got paid for it? And how well would a deposit scheme for food packaging work? […]
Zero waste author and blogger, Otso Sillanaukee, managed to fit all the waste he produced in a year into a single jam jar. How did […]
The Uusix workshops are a production unit of the City of Helsinki’s Social Services and Health Care Division providing rehabilitative work. The employees at Uusix […]
Emmy Clothing Company Oy is a business operation in Lohja, Finland, and its mission is to encourage people to acquire high-quality clothing and reuse them. […]
With nearly 500 employees in Ii, unused office furniture such as desks, chairs and cabinets take up a lot of expensive storage space and may […]