Example Cases

Circular Economy

Examples combined in co-operation: Version: June 2017

Delete: Design products from demolished materials Delete’s Waste recycled products are manufactured by recycling and reusing materials created at Delete’s demolition locations. The unique design objects made from waste and scrap by the designer brothers Juhana Myllykoski and Johannes Stenberg will be sold through the Waste-online store opened in June 2017, as well as Waste pop-up stores in Kyläsaari, Helsinki. The materials for the products are found at Delete’s demolition locations.

What's the added value? • Every year, a great deal of materials resulting

from demolition activities are generated at Delete’s working locations. Some of the demolition locations contain objects and goods or materials that can be taken into use after just a quick clean. For others, a new product may be created by shaping and combining the object so that something completely new is produced.

• Ecological recycled products, Trash Design and Industrial Design are of interest to interior architects and enthusiastic home decorators.

Additional information: tanja.vepsalainen@delete.fi Tel. +358 50 590 3916

Yhteistyössä:

Destaclean® Puukivi (Wood stone) is a progressive recycled material, of which the prepared products are ecological, lightweight, durable and easy to machine. The product range includes products for yard and environmental constructions, such as garden stones and garden furniture. Wood stone is a composite of pure recycled wood fibre, rock minerals, cement and water. Recycled wood fibre is obtained from wood waste, which is processed as a recycled raw material at a processing plant in Tuusula. With the Destaclean process, wood waste fulfils the End of Waste criteria, according to the set Waste Act.

Destaclean Oy: A progressive recycled composite product for yard and environmental constructions

Additional information: info@destaclean.fi Tel. +358 40 1959 971

Yhteistyössä:

What's the added value? • The Destaclean® concept enables the recycling of wood waste

to be used for construction needs. Recycled wood fibre will replace some of the precious natural rock materials. The light weight properties of wood stone and the utilization of construction waste bring an ecological competitive advantage, which remains, at the same time, socially sustainable. • The crushed material used in Destaclean® Wood stone received

the first EoW permit to be issued for waste wood recycling in Finland (2015).

Additional information:simo.rantanen@envorprotech.fiTel. +358 50 431 7599

Envor Protech Oy: EPAD-biogastechnologyfor paper & pulpsludges

• EPAD is globally the first biogas technology to utilize forest-based slurries from pulping process as the feedstock

• Potential technology to both existing paper and pulp mills as well as the next generation bioproductmills

• Case: EcoEnergySF Oy biogas plant in the area of MetsäFibreBioproductMill in Äänekoski, Finland

• Biogas plant shall process the wastewater slurries of the BioproductMill, and turn those into biogas for transportation, carbon dioxide for pulping process as well as fertilizers and solid biofuel for boiler plants

Yhteistyössä:

Additional information: europress@europress.fi Tel. +358 9 228 191

Europress Group Oy: Waste compressors for the efficient recycling of consumer packaging waste

Yhteistyössä:

The Rinki eco take-back point network collects consumer packaging waste by stores and service centres. The network has more than 1 850 collection points for fibre, glass and metal packaging waste, of which more than 500 spots also collect plastic packaging waste. All in all, the eco take-back points have a total of about 8,000 collecting tanks, of which about 360 spots utilise Europress waste crushers.

What is the added value? Alongside the location of the collection points and user friendliness, the appropriateness of the collection tools are important factors in ensuring the efficiency of the entire collection system. The presses compress the waste into a small size, which enhances the space utilization, extends the emptying intervals of the tanks and reduces the volume of transport. Through intelligent functions, one can track the presses remotely, which allows automatic error messages and the optimisation of transport on the basis of the filling quantities.

• In the eco-refinery biowaste, plastics and metals as well refusederived fuel is separated from themixed waste for further recovery.

• In the plastic refinery plastic wasteis refined into secondary rawmaterials.

• In the bio-refinery biowaste is converted into biogas and fertilizers.

Fortum Waste Solutions Oy: Circular economy village in Riihimäki, Finland

Additional information:petri.onikki@fortum.comTel. +358 505 300 404

Yhteistyössä:

Gasum unites waste & energy and brings recycled biogas in the market

• Gasum’s innovative

concept offers companies

the opportunity to

produce biogas from their

own biodegradable waste

• The produced and

upgraded biogas can then

be used in logistics, to

fuel the company’s own

car fleet and as a source

of renewable energy in

the production processes

of new products

Additional information:juha.ala-huikku@gasum.fiTel. +358 445 222 181

Yhteistyössä:

Kuusakoski Oy: Aluminium can be recycled almost forever

• The production of renewed aluminium involves 95% less energy than the production of virgin aluminium• Approximately 75% of aluminium can be recycled • The largest sources of recycled aluminium: scrap vehicles, industry and recycled materials from consumers • Kuusakoski is Finland's only company involved in the manufacture of aluminium ingots for export

3. Smelting and casting as ingots

1. Scrap for recycling

4. Aluminium ingots as raw materials for industry

5. New products from secondary raw materials

2. Kuusakoski separatesmaterials

Yhteistyössä: Additional information: risto.pohjanpalo@kuusakoski.com Tel. +358 20 781 7304

The Hävikkimestari application is a service designed for lunching restaurants that can help reduce the amount of food waste that is created. Restaurant workers weigh and mark on the Hävikkimestari application the amount of waste produced and the way in which it is handled. The application also visualizes the waste and helps to find out the causes behind it. The Hävikkimestariapplication is easy to use and the tracking takes place alongside the work. With the aid of the application, the waste data can be viewed in real time and gives management a good perception of the waste created through its operations, as well as its causes. The employees of the restaurant can be instructed in developing their work with the Hävikki data. Hävikki data can also be used to assist restaurant employees in decreasing the waste which they cause - According to the Lean Leadership philosophy, work can also be developed where it is carried out.

Lassila & Tikanoja: “Hävikkimestari” applicationalso helps to minimize restaurant food waste

Additional information: sebastian.aniszewski@lassila-tikanoja.fi Tel. +358 40 726 8879

In co-operation:

Action towards preventing food waste • Finland is committed to UN and EU targets to halve the creation of food waste

by 2030. Implementation of the targets requires working tools to track and reduce food waste.

• Impressive results have been achieved with the aid of Hävikkimestari. During a pilot project lasting six months, food waste created as a result of a customer’s work decreased by 45% and the customer significantly reduced the environmental impacts resulting from their food waste and achieved significant cost savings on an annual level of up to even 20,000€.

Additional information: jorma.mikkonen@lassila-tikanoja.fi

Tel. +358 500 453 454

Lassila & Tikanoja plc: the recycling of loading pallets

Yhteistyössä:

We recycle over 1 500 000 loading pallets a year:• EUR- pallets• FIN-pallets• Disposable pallets• Plastic pallets• Other periphery products

We sell over 100,000 new loading pallets a year:• Our robotic machine line assists in sorting functions by carrying out the heavy work.

Our operations are certified and we emphasize occupational safety.

What’s the additional value?One cubic metre of wood is required in order to manufacture 22 new EUR loading pallets, however one cubic metre of wood can be used to repair 150 recycled EUR loading pallets!

Where do waste oils and emulsions originate from?• We collect waste oils, oil contamined water and different emulsions from the industry, harbours, workshops and farmsHow are waste oils and emulsions processed?• Oils are analyzed, processed and unified at L&T’s recycling plant• Used lubricant oils are directed to business partners for regeneration or purification• Oils and emulsions which are unsuitable for regeneration are processed at L&T’s recycling plants in Lahti, Jyväskylä and Oulu (Finland)How are the processed waste oils and emulsions utilized?• The regenerated lubricant oils are processed into basic oil, which is sold further to be used as a raw material in the lubricant industry• The side streams of the regeneration are utilized as bitumen• Oils which are unsuitable for regeneration are converted into recycled fuel for industrial use at L&T’s recycling plant

Additional information: jorma.mikkonen@lassila-tikanoja.fi Tel. +358 500 453 454

Lassila & Tikanoja plc: enabling the reuse ofwaste oils and emulsions

Yhteistyössä:

Additional information: kuormalavat@paperinkerays.fi Tel. +358 44 5282 611

Paperinkeräys Oy: An intelligent loading palletservice

Yhteistyössä:

The Encore loading pallet service is a pallet sales, purchase and repair service directed towards commerce and industry, through which 1.5 million loading pallets pass through each year.

By means of RFID tagging technology attached to the loading pallets, it is possible to track the flow of the pallets and guarantee a safe passage of goods through the value chain.

All received loading pallets are checked. Automatic lines are used greatly in the quality control and sorting of the loading pallets. Complete EUR and FIN pallets go directly to customers, broken pallets are repaired in accordance with the standards and unrepairable pallets are crushed and delivered to incineration plants.

What is the added value? The operating model improves the maintenance of the stock and is cost-effective and rational from both a waste management and environmental aspect. The customer benefits from the rental service because the need for storing pallets is reduced and the capital bound up in vast amounts of pallets also decreases.

Additional information: asiakaspalvelu@remeo.fiTel. +358 10 5400

Remeo: new life for used textiles

How significant is this project?Every year ca. 10 kg of used textiles per person ends up into waste in Finland.

Which materials can be recycled?Various textiles, shoes, bags and belts.

How are textiles recycled?Cotton textiles are recycled in Finland by using a new technology. The recovered cotton fibers are used to produce new cotton fabric. Of the remaining collected textiles 70 % is sold in second hand shops, 28 % is used as industrial raw materials and remaining 2 % goes into energy production.

Yhteistyössä:

Additional information: info@zenrobotics.comTel. +358 45 259 6161

• Finnish ZenRobotics Oy has developed the world's first waste sorting robot. The technology enables fast and accurate sorting results from mixed waste flows into recyclable materials.

• Sensor technology can be used to effectively sort recyclable materials from unsorted waste loads in the waste sorting process. A basic solution in the construction of waste incineration plants nowadays can be considered to be the automatic separation of waste before the incineration process, whilst also taking into account the environmental impacts and overall benefits - this is how valuable raw materials can be recovered and materials unsuitable for incineration can be removed.

ZenRobotics: Robots revolutionize the waste industry

Yhteistyössä:

• Kinkkutemppu is a cooperation project for the chemical industry, the purpose of which is to bring the circular economy closer to the daily life of consumers through the use of concrete examples.

• During Christmas 2016, consumers were asked to deliver excess fats from when roasting their Christmas ham to recycling centres, whereupon the excess fats would be used to prepare renewable fuel at Neste’s bio refinery in Porvoo. Finally, the renewable fuel produced from the excess fat would be donated to charity.

Additional information (in Finnish):http://kinkkutemppu.fi

Cooperation project: Kinkkutemppu (Ham project) 2016

• The starting point for the Kinkkutemppu project was that it would be possible to drive a car for a distance of up to 3 km, using the excess fat produces from one roast ham. And around 7 million kilos of ham is eaten in Finland during the Christmas season. We also believe that its stands to reason that such amounts of fat could then be collected to produce enough diesel to drive three times around the world. It would already do a great deal of good.

The partners involved in the cooperation projects were in addition to the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland, Neste Oyj, Kesko Corporation, Lassila & Tikanoja Oyj, FinnishPackaging Recycling RINKI Ltd, Finnish Water Utilities Association (FIWA), Honkajoki Oy, RuraWomen’s AdvisoryOrganisation, as well as YTP ry.

Contacts

• Maija PohjakallioSenior advisor, Circular and bioeconomymaija.pohjakallio@kemianteollisuus.fi +358 50 595 6891

• Susanna AaltonenDirector, Public Affairssusanna.aaltonen@kemianteollisuus.fi +358 40 593 4221

http://www.kemianteollisuus.fi/en/twitter: @Kemianteollisuu

• Anna VirolainenAdvisoranna.virolainen@ytpliitto.fi+358 400 987 805

• Riikka KinnunenActing Managing Directorriikka.kinnunen@ytpliitto.fi +358 43 850 093

http://www.ytpliitto.fi/in-english/