plastics

Circular economy spring tour starts with excursion to Fortum

22.05.2018 Education, Events, Student Life

Our energy and materials technology students started their spring tour with an excursion to Fortum’s circular economy village in Riihimäki. It is a pioneering example of future waste management. We were guided through how municipal waste is separated to biowaste, plastic, metal and fuel for their waste-to-energy plant. And we got our hands on recycled plastic from their Plastic Refinery. Student Christofer Enlund said “Interesting place. They recycled quite a lot,…

”Plastics in Circular Economy” Seminar 30.9.16 at Arcada

05.10.2016 Events, Research

A hectic September was closed at Arcada with research by the seminar, ‘’Plastics in Circular Economy’’. The event brought together the leading Finnish research groups and companies working with material recycling and plastics. The event was organised by Material Value Chains (ARVI) research programme /Plastics Theme Group in collaboration with CLIC Innovation Ltd and Arcada’s Department of Energy and Materials Technology. ARVI has created a unique innovation community since 2013….