A food waste reduction roadmap is prepared in in Southwest Finland – a unique project on a European scale The popular Golli delivery service has a new feature

A Challenge Prize for you?

Municipalities, companies, communities or an individuals have now the opportunity to receive recognition for their work with a Challenge Prize awarded by the Circwaste project. The Prize will be awarded by the Circwaste project and a rotating electoral committee. It is awarded annually to one or more actors.

The latest award was presented to Tracegrow Oy in May 2020 in a webinar “Municipalities Implementing Sustainable Development”. The selection criteria were, among other things, that the idea reflects innovative thinking that has led to profitable business on an industrial scale.

In the process developed by Tracegrow Oy, battery mass is dissolved and harmful substances are removed from the solution. The end-product is a micro-nutrient solution containing zinc and manganese in accordance with the EU legislation on fertilizers. The process does not generate harmful emissions or wastewater into the air.

Tracegrow’s micro-nutrient products are sold to fertilizer retailers and fertilizer manufacturers. The product is also well suited for organic farming. Participate: energialoikka.fi/en/ luokka/material-leap

Read more about the Prize and selection criteria::

materitkiertoon.fi/fi-FI/ Ajankohtaista/Kiertopalkinto Text Anna Kuronen

The City of Pori’s Circwaste subproject Luuppi focuses on public procurements. Various environmental education material extending from early childhood to secondary education.

The Golli service facilitates the flow of information between the entrepreneur and the seller

GS1 Finland has developed an additional feature to the popular Golli delivery system that monitors transport pallets and Transbox boxes in real time.

Text Tarja Sinervo

How to get the product to consumers smoothly and efficiently? This is one of the most important questions for an entrepreneur. An order and delivery system that is efficient and up–to–date plays a crucial role in negotiations with retailers. Sellers want to manage logistics with diglonger relying merely on a mobile phone or email. Big central corporations have each their own systems posing a challenge for the entrepreneur. To help with this, GS1 has developed a digital service called Golli. – Golli facilitates the interaction between suppliers and buyers, as it “talks” with the systems of all major traders, says Anu Lahdenperä, Key Account Manager at GS1. – The service forwards orders to the entrepreneur and allows easy delivery of documents related to deliveries as well as standard address labels. The information is stored and up–to–date in Golli’s cloud service. The easy–to–use service works via an internet browser on both a computer and a mobile.

The new feature improves the reuse of transport platforms

Lahdenperä says that in the pilot of the Circwaste project, GS1 Finland developed a new feature for the Golli service that promotes the circular economy. – Now Golli also submits information about reusable pallets and Transbox boxes used in the delivery of goods. This is done through an identification code attached to the transport pallet. The recipient immediately sees how and when the goods are coming and can prepare for it. When products are quickly available

PHOTO: GS1 FINLAND

Anu Lahdenperä

Key Account Manager, GS1

REGIONAL COOPERATION NETWORK

Schoolchildren getting acquainted with the circular economy on the environmental education path

environmental education and green actors in the city have co–produced

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responsible consumption and food, and Responsible clothing. School classes’ visit programs, theme weeks and material packages for teachers are also part of the environmental education path, says Outi Aalto, project coordinator at Luuppi.

– We opened Liikuttamo in the main library. It is a place where you can borrow sports and outdoor equipment with your library card. Now it is easy to try out new sports, Aalto enthuses.

The project also organizes dialogue discussions with students and mothers, as well as experts in youth and sports, the library and waste management. Their wishes are listened to carefully.

Other participatory sub-projects of the Circwaste project:

• The City of Jyväskylä is implementing three circular economy idea competitions for local residents, of which the best ideas are implemented in practice. The first idea competition produced innovative ideas, from an appliance loan application to experiments with using garden waste for soil. In September 2019, another idea competition was held, the results of which are currently being put into practice. One of the promising ideas was the idea of an experiment in recycling water in indoor swimming halls. Further information: Päivi Pietarinen, Environmental Director, City of Jyväskylä firstname.surname@jyvaskyla.fi