Name
Turku - industrial textile recycling facility - Full-scale end-of-life textile refinement plant
country
Finland
Goal
The refinement plant will process household end-of-life textiles that the local waste management companies have collected in collaboration from their respective regions.
All Finnish municipalities and their waste management companies can deliver their post-consumer textiles to be processed at the plant. Likewise, all businesses have an equal opportunity to use the recycled raw material produced at the refinement plant in the production of their own products.
Main Topic
Responsible and circular economy: mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy
All Topics
Responsible and circular economy: mobilizing industry for a clean and circular economy
Zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment
Financing the transition (i.e. it facilitates and/or stimulates public and private investments needed for the transition to a climate-neutral, green, competitive and inclusive economy)
Scale
- City and peri-urban
- Regional (e.g. a province, including multiple cities)
- National
Actors
- Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
- Local government
- Regional government
Main Activity
Designing policies and/or (management) strategies
Activities
- Not specified
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.