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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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2016-03-21Press release
Unique method measures endotoxins
Researchers from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute have developed a unique method of measuring bacterial toxins – so-called endotoxins. Endotoxins pose a health risk for personnel who hand...
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2016-02-22Press release
Recycling wastewater cost-effective and ecosmart
With the right technology wastewater recycling can be both cost effective and regenerate ultra-pure water that can be returned to the groundwater or used in agriculture and industry. This has been sh...
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2016-02-19Press release
The pathways of plastic debris from the city to the sea will be mapped in new EU project
A full 80 percent of all the garbage that ends up in the ocean comes from the land, and 60 percent of this debris is plastic. In the common EU project Blastic countries around the Baltic Sea will now...
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2016-02-18News
Sheba BONUS programme to become flagship research project
The IVL-coordinated BONUS Sheba Project has been designated flagship project within the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and will thus achieve wider policy impact.
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2016-02-16News
IVL celebrates 50 years of research
It’s been 50 years since the government and industry jointly formed the first Swedish environmental research institute - IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Throughout 2016 we will highligh...
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2016-01-29News
IVL to identify sources of microplastics in the oceans
The Swedish authorities aim to reduce the spread of microplastics in the environment. As part of this effort, last fall the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned IVL to identify the so...
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2016-01-27News
New UN sustainable development goals will combat social exclusion
January 18, 2016 marked the start of Sweden’s efforts to achieve the United Nation’s new sustainable development goals. One of these goals is that cities and communities are to include all its reside...
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2016-01-25News
Record number of registered environmental product declarations
As many as 139 new environmental product declarations, so-called EPDs, were registered in the international EPD system during 2015. An increase with more than 20 registrations compared to the previou...
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