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Plastics and Current Legislative Developments – Some Insights
Authors: Rosa Maria Ballardini, Juha Vesala and Corinna Casi / University of Lapland The European Union is currently seeking to tackle the environmental issues that…
Plastics and Current Legislative Developments – Some Insights
Authors: Rosa Maria Ballardini, Juha Vesala and Corinna Casi / University of Lapland The European…
Additive manufacturing technologies –productivity and process innovation on a sustainable basis?
Authors: Niklas Kretzschmar, Sergei Chekurov and Jouni Partanen / Aalto University Even though additive manufacturing…
Identifying policy-level instruments required for a more sustainable plastic future
Authors: Katri Valkokari , Peter Ylen (VTT) & Rosa Ballardini and Juha Vesala (University of Lapland)…
Sustainable plastics – what are they?
Authors: Jukka Seppälä, Laura Äkräs, Kasper Dienel / Aalto University Plastics are central in our…
Building a business case for renewable plastics innovation among material producers
Authors: Satu Salminen, Jaakko Siltaloppi / Aalto University The transition from fossil-based to bio- and…
Three avenues for developing plastic reuse and recycling
Author: Lars Vilen, Jaakko Siltaloppi / Aalto University The current linear economy model of plastics…
Three pillars of sustainability
Authors: Hannu Ilvesniemi and Frans Silvenius / Luke The carbon-cycle of bio-based plastics occurs mainly…
Development paths of renewable plastics – what will the transition bring to the table?
Authors: Jaakko Siltaloppi/ Aalto and Markus Jähi & Katri Valkokari/VTT Transitioning to ‘renewable’, bio-based and…
Law, Innovation and Environmental Sustainability – From Vision to Reality
Photo: Sentiero dei fiori, Adamello (Passo del Tonale), Italia /CC-license: Elena Staffoni Authors: Rosa Ballardini,…
Manufacturing Novel Biomaterial Products by 3D Printing
Author: Jouni Partanen/ Aalto University For the last 2 months and more, the news all…
Towards tackling the challenges of bioplastics transition
Author: Jaakko Siltaloppi/ Aalto University The purpose of the ValueBioMat project is to advance the…
Science Advising in key role when understanding the plastics problem
Author: Jukka Seppälä / Aalto University Plastics are a hot subject, with frequent news regarding…
Eight elements to solve the global plastic challenge – the starting point for a multi-disciplinary research project ValueBioMat
The “Bio-oils-based polymeric composites – Value chain from synthesis to additive manufacturing (ValueBioMat[1])” project aims…
Exploring futures of bio-based and circular plastics
We have built four scenarios of bio-based and circular plastics over a 10-year timeline.