Henna Knuutila
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Circular economy regulation for end-of-life vehicles advances: Extended producer responsibility covers the entire life cycle
The current End-of-Life Vehicle Directive will be repealed and vehicle producers will take on greater responsibility for the entire life cycle of a vehicle. The new Circular Economy Regulation for Vehicles, or the so-called ELV Regulation […]
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A unique demolition pilot in Peltola, Turku, collects information on end-of-life vehicle materials, recycling, reuse of parts, and demolition methods
(For subscribers.) Peltola in Turku is leading the way to a new kind of automotive industry. There are such big changes happening in car recycling that the transformation could be compared to a time of about a hundred […]
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End of vehicle life cycle – from circular economy to business
In Finland, approximately 70,000–80,000 vehicles reach the end of their life cycle each year. At the European level, the number is approximately 4,7 million. From a circular economy perspective, vehicle […]
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“Now the circular economy for textiles is possible”
Henna Knuutila, Customer Relationship and Development Manager at Rester Oy, has been developing the prerequisites for a circular economy in textiles for a long time. “There is now a strong will to succeed among the operators,” she […]
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Domestic value chain for disposable textiles
Photos: Pekka Karppinen. Henna Knuutila and Elli Ojala hope that domestic recycling sites would be found for used textiles. The collection, sorting and further processing of used textiles […]
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Can textiles exported abroad be textile waste?
15.9.2016 At the beginning of June, the Textile 2.0 project was busy, as a potential reuse target had been found for some of the discarded textiles collected by the pilot. We sent 12 […]
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Uusiouutiset 1/2014
Uusiouutiset 1/2014 was published on February 11, 2014. The issue is the 25th anniversary issue of Uusiouutisten, and it had a special distribution to Finnish environmental students at colleges, universities and […]
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