2020-04-08 Plastic, paper or cotton bag – the choice might depend on where you live What bag is the best for the environment? The question is simple, but the answer more complex. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute compiled information from life cycle assessments on behalf o... Read more

2020-04-06 New industry standard for measuring the environmental benefits of reusing IT IVL and Inrego have developed a new database model to measure the environmental savings of reusing IT. The model is open and free to use for the entire IT reuse industry and anyone who is interested i... Read more

2020-02-21 Focus on clean water when IVL opens office in India IVL continues to grow internationally – most recently in India where a new office has opened in the multi-million city Mumbai. A significant part of our activities there will focus on water treatment,... Read more

2020-02-20 Foodwaste in Sweden could fill the Ericsson Globe Arena four times over A single year’s foodwaste would fill the Globe stadium four times over. And most of this foodwaste comes from households – three Globe stadiums packed to the roof. This fact was pointed out in the Foo... Read more

2020-02-19 Record-breaking international interest in Swedish smart city solutions Swedish smart and sustainable city solutions are attracting a record number of foreign players to the country. Smart City Sweden can today showcase over 100 solutions in environmental technology, mobi... Read more

2019-12-19 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

2019-12-04 New report on climate impact of electric car batteries A new IVL report commissioned by the Swedish Energy Agency targets climate emissions associated with electric car battery manufacture. The study is based on life cycle analyses and is an update of an ... Read more

2019-10-25 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

2019-09-09 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

2019-09-02 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