Waste management and the transition to a circular economy

Dr Pekka Peura at VEBIC, University of Vaasa, in collaboration with Dr Olli Voutilainen of the Natural Resources Institute Finland and Professor Jussi Kantola of the University of Turku, review the evolution of a waste management system implemented in Finland’s Vaasa region in 1984, which saw the establishment of the waste management company ‘Ab Avfallsservice Stormossen Jätehuolto Oy (ASJ)’. ASJ and the subsequent formation of Westenergy have been instrumental in Finland’s strive to transition to a circular economy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Article ──────────────────────────── https://researchoutreach.org/articles/waste-management-transition-circular-economy/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Additional information ──────────────────────────── Stormossen https://www.stormossen.fi/en/frontpage/ Westenergy https://westenergy.fi/en/ University of Vaasa https://www.uwasa.fi/en ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Social Media ──────────────────────────── Westenergy https://www.facebook.com/WestenergyOy/ https://www.instagram.com/westenergyoy/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-0vWtXSxjmk416BDNAJvMg https://www.linkedin.com/company/westenergy-oy/ University of Vaasa https://www.facebook.com/univaasa https://www.instagram.com/univaasa/ https://twitter.com/univaasa https://www.youtube.com/univaasa https://www.linkedin.com/school/univaasa/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ References ──────────────────────────── https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X22000277?via%3Dihub ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Research Outreach ──────────────────────────── https://researchoutreach.org/ https://twitter.com/@ResOutreach https://www.facebook.com/researchoutreach ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #circulareconomy #recycling #wastemanagement ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━