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Sara Malmheden
Press officer
Phone: +46(0) 10-788 65 10
E-mail: sara.malmheden@ivl.se
Press releases and news
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2017-04-25Press release
Wood burning and traffic greatest threats to air in cities
Health effect measurements from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Umeå shows that the importance of local air pollution emissions from wood burning and road traffic is greater than earlier national level est...
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2017-03-31News
Strategic projects to review the potential of Industrial Symbiosis in Sweden
Researchers from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Linköping University, Rise and through collaboration with industrial partners from Sotenäs Symbioscenter, HiFab, Econova, Tekniska Verke...
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2017-03-28Press release
New technology may revolutionize textile recycling
Automatic rather than manual sorting provides new opportunities for increased textile recycling. In a unique pilot plant in Avesta, a thirty-metre machine uses optical sensors to sort textiles based ...
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2017-03-28News
Increased production of biofuels from the sea and its possible impact on the ecosystem
Research is underway to determine whether cultivating algae and sea squirts may be a promising alternative for the production of biofuels. However, more knowledge is needed about how large-scale prod...
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2017-03-08News
How can emissions trading become a more effective climate policy tool?
What is needed to make emissions trading work? How can the system become more proactive when it comes to climate adaptation? Researchers from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, the Univers...
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2017-02-20News
IVL active in research on smart materials
Smart materials are the focus of a new Mistra research programme tasked with discovering effective ways of removing hazardous substances from air, water and land. IVL Swedish Environmental Research I...
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2017-02-20News
Decisive action for better water with the help of unique EU project
IVL is engaged in Sweden’s first LIFE IP project. The goal of the Rich Waters project is among other things to reduce the impact of nutrients and pollutants, create free migration routes for fish and...
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2017-01-27News
Peringe Grennfelt leaves CLRTAP after 30 years
After nearly 30 years as Swedish delegate to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, where in recent years he was Chair of the Working Group on Effects, IVL’s Peringe Grennfelt ends...
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