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Sara Malmheden
Press officer
Phone: +46(0) 10-788 65 10
E-mail: sara.malmheden@ivl.se
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2016-06-30News
UN report on air quality shows both progress and challenges
Coordinated action under UNECE Air Convention during the last 30 years has significantly improved air quality in North America and Europe – but more efforts are needed. Despite significant improvemen...
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2016-06-23Press release
Automated sorting will increase recycling of textiles
Every year 4.3 million tonnes of textile waste is used in the EU as landfill or incinerated. Over 120 000 tonnes of new textiles are injected into the Swedish market, but just barely 5 percent is rec...
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2016-06-15News
Smart indicators to measure the resilience of important social services
A new EU project – Smart resilience indicators for smart critical infrastructures – will develop indicators to measure resilience, meaning how susceptible vital public services such as transportation...
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2016-06-14Press release
Natural leaching of phosphorus greater than Sweden’s emissions target
The natural phosphorus load exceeds Sweden’s emissions target. This is revealed in a new report based on the hitherto most accurate mapping of Sweden's emissions of eutrophic substances into the ...
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2016-06-13Press release
Oily bilge water can be purified to drinking water quality
Today marine shipping has the right to discharge a limited amount of oil at sea, along with bilge water from the engine compartment. The Bonus project ZEB ( Zero Emissions in the Baltic Sea) has deve...
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2016-05-24Press release
Industry and transport – greatest challenges for carbon neutral Nordic countries
In the end of May a Nordic edition of the renowned International Energy Agency (IEA) global publication Energy Technology Perspectives was launched. The report shows that the Nordic countries can ach...
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2016-05-12News
IVL researcher heading to China for air studies
IVL researcher Åsa Hallquist will, during six weeks in Beijing and three months in Hong Kong, measure secondary air pollution on behalf of a five-year long project regarding photochemical smog in Chi...
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2016-05-09News
Several environmental benefits from using sea squirt in fish farms
Sustainable fish, bioenergy and cleaner water can be the results of creating a local circular production system by integrating fish farming with the cultivation of sea squirt and macro algae. In the ...
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