Study shows the environmental effects of scrubbing systems
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LÄS MERGreen light for large-scale automated textile sorting facility
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2019-10-25 | News ReuseHeat wins one of the Global District Energy Climate Awards The 2019 Global District Energy Climate Awards were revealed on 24 October 2019, during the first Sustainable District Energy Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. The IVL-lead project ReuseHeat won the A... Read more
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2019-10-03 | News New project reviewing the expectations and displacement effects of electrifying municipal transportation There is an increase in the number of municipalities choosing to electrify their public transportation system. Many of these have established biofuel, e.g. biogas, systems. It is important to address ... Read more
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2019-09-09 | Press release IVL releases book about electrical waste for high schools Mobile phones, televisions, appliances and computers are some of the products most commonly found in waste streams around the world, and they are on the increase. Every year, about 50 million tonnes o... Read more
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2019-09-02 | News Clean water in focus during Indian politician visit India´s Jal Shakti Minister of Water Resources, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, visited Hammarby Sjöstadsverk in Stockholm last week. At this unique research and demonstration facility, IVL works together w... Read more
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2019-08-30 | News Student camp raised environmental awareness This summer IVL and the Swedish Institute, SI, arranged a two-week scholarship camp in Sweden. 20 students from India and China got the opportunity to learn about sustainable development and experienc... Read more
Publications
- Länsvis totalt nedfall av oorganiskt kväva och svavel till barrskog This report is only available in Swedish. Read more
- Arbetsmiljön för entreprenörer - Hinder och möjligheter för effektivt arbetsmiljöarbete inom stål, pappers- och massa och gruvindustri This report is only available in Swedish. Read more
- Arbetsmiljön för entreprenörer - Hinder och möjligheter för effektivt arbetsmiljöarbete inom stål, pappers- och massa och gruvindustri This report is only available in Swedish. English summary is available in the report. Read more
- Technical Background Report to the Global Mercury Assessment 2018 A joint UN Environment and AMAP report that presents the latest and comprehensive information of global mercury emissions and releases to the environment, information on atmospheric and aquatic chemistry and fate and transport of mercury. Read more
- Rodenticide screening 2016–2018 - Exposures in birds (raptors and gulls) and red foxes This screening study aims at investigating whether anticoagulant rodenticides can be detected in non-target organisms, and if the levels are different compared with the results from a previous study. Foxes, birds of prey and gulls were included as non-target organisms. The levels detected in the present screening study were similar to those found earlier and support that rodenticides are transferred in the food web and may be the cause of secondary toxicity in non-target mammals and birds in Sweden. Read more
New EU project
Towards a Next Generation of Water Systems and Services for the Circular Economy
Europe’s communities are in many ways uniquely placed to transition from a linear to a Circular Economy (CE) model. Nowhere is this opportunity more relevant and urgent than in the water sector where largely linear production – consumption – disposal chains exacerbate resource depletion issues, contributing to increasingly volatile raw material and energy costs as competition for diminishing resources becomes more intense.
IVL video
Infrastructure for people - not cars
In focus
Recycling and reuse - by hook or by crook
The production and trading of clothes, is one of the world’s largest industries and its ecological footprint is huge. And there seems to be no end to how much we consume. In Sweden we buy on average 13 kilos of clothing per person per year.