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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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2016-05-02Press release
Large climate benefits from eating less meat – but still difficult to achieve the emissions target
Reducing meat consumption has a large climate benefit – much larger than just switching from beef and pork to chicken, according to a model developed by researchers at IVL. The model is used for calc...
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2016-03-31Press release
New data on European food waste
New figures show that Europeans in average discard 173 kilograms of food per person and year. This is far more than earlier estimates have shown. All combined about 88 million tons of food ends up in...
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2016-03-29Press release
Tire wear foremost source of microplastics
On behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has mapped the sources and pathways of microplastics. The main sources are tire and road wear pa...
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2016-03-24News
Consultation response to EU proposal on circular economy
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute has submitted a response to the European Commission circular economy package. IVL believes the proposal to be both positive and progressive, and applauds ...
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2016-03-23News
Mistra Indigo – an important contribution to the global climate policy framework
During four years of intense study the Indigo Mistra research project, led by IVL, has scrutinized economic and political instruments that might able to halt climate change. Initiatives taken by both...
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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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