CIRCWASTE is a seven-year LIFE IP project that promotes efficient use of material flows, waste prevention and new waste and resource management concepts. All actions contribute to implementing the national waste management plan and directing Finland towards a circular economy. CIRCWASTE is a creation of 20 partners and 10 funding organisations. The project is coordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute. CIRCWASTE is funded in large part by the EU LIFE programme.

1. CIRCWASTE – Towards Circular
Economy in Finland
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
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2. CIRCWASTE directs Finland
towards circular economy and
implements the National
Waste Management Plan
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3. Duration: 1.10.2016-31.12.2023
Budget: 18 799 605 € (of which EU: 11 112 104 €)
Realisers: 20 partners
Financiers: EU LIFE programme and 10 co-financiers
Coordinator: The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
CIRCWASTE – a creation of 20
partners
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5. Carries out
concrete pilot projects in
key areas to develop the
waste manegement
system and to promote
circular economy
Implements the goals
of the National Waste
Management
Plan
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CIRCWASTE
Launches
new projects and
processes that support
waste manegement
and circular economy
Supports Finland in
becoming a
forerunner in
circular economy
Establishes a
Circular Economy
Network
that provides expert help and
analyses and communicates the
results of the project

6. • Decrease the amounts of municipal solid waste and meet the recycling
targets
• Increase the recycling of construction and demolition waste
• Improve material efficiency and waste prevention in production, industry and
trade
• Increase the utilisation of mineral waste and industrial by-products
• Improve the reduction and recovery of hazardous waste
• Generate new information on potential circular economy actions, priority
sectors, material flows and value chains in each case study regions and
• Utilise the information generated during the project in order to create new
system level changes in waste management
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Aims of CIRCWASTE according to the National
Waste Management Plan

7. Partners
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8. Research institutes and
universities
Partners
• Finnish Environment Institute
• Natural Resources Institute (LUKE)
• Lappeenranta University of Technology
• Karelia University of applied sciences
• Turku University of applied sciences
(TUAS)
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Municipalities and regions Companies and public
enterprises
• GS1 Finland Ltd
• Kompotek Ltd
• Ramboll Finland Ltd
• Joensuun Science Park Ltd
• Kiertomaa Ltd
• Motiva Ltd
• Pikes Ltd
• Puhas Ltd
• City of Lappeenranta
• Central Finland Health Care District
• City of Jyväskylä
• City of Pori
• Regional Council of Central Finland
• Regional Council of North Karelia
• Regional Council of Southwest
Finland

9. Financing
• EU LIFE Programme
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Main financer Co-financers
• Gasum
• Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
• Finnish Transport Agency
• Ministry of the Environment
• Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry
• Mustankorkea
• Pirteä Porsas
• Rauman Biovoima
• Sammakkokangas

10. Concrete results from
CIRCWASTE actions
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11. The CIRCWASTE partners carry out around 20 actions
Actions
• The actions include:
• building pilot plants
• developing new processes, methods and products
• carrying out trials
• writing and publishing studies, reports and plans
• training and counselling
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12. Six themes related to waste management
and circular economy under which there are
20 CIRCWASTE project actions
Utilising soilsDigital
solutions and
logistics
Biodegradable waste
and byflows
Resource
efficiency in
construction
Industrial waste
and material flows
Regional and
strategic
development and
networking
projects

13. Regional strategic development and
networking projects
● Establishing a network and offering counselling (City
of Pori)
● Collecting good ideas and offering funding for the
best (City of Jyväskylä)
● Charting biowaste flows and planning the needed
processings, estimating costs and enviromental
impacts (Central Finland) and identifying business
opportunities (Joensuu Science Park)
● Identifying new processing technologies and planning
their implementation (SYKE)
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Regional and
strategic
development and
networking
projects

14. Resource efficiency in construction
● Establishing a network for constuctors, property
developers, authorities, etc., to implement resource
efficient solutions, e.g. at the Housing Fair (City of
Pori)
● Developing a resource efficienct operations model
for waste management in hospitals (Central
Finland)
● Identifying and testing best techniques for
decreasing the amounts of construction and
demolition waste as well as sorting and recycling of
waste, offering training (North Karelia)
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Resource
efficiency in
construction

15. Biodegradable waste and byflows
● Educating farmers to establish farm-scale biogas plants.
(Southwest Finland, Turku University of Applied Sciences)
● Finding solutions to redistribute surplus food (LUKE)
● Testing biogas production from manure and organic
byproducts and testing fertiliser production (LUKE)
● Testing decomposition and manufacturing of new products
from byflows originating from agriculture, metal industry
and food industry (Pielinen Karelia Development Center
Ltd, PIKES)
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Biodegradable waste
and byflows

16. Industrial waste and material flows
● Developing waste management and utilisation of
byproducts, such as plastics, in rural areas (Karelia
University of Applied Sciences)
● Study of industrial material flows and construction of a
pilot plant for e.g. recycling of industrial magnets (City of
Pori)
● Assessment of material flows, environmental impacts
and cost-efficiency of a pilot plant for reusing plastics and
other byproducts and manufacturing composite
materials. Construction of the plant. (Lappeenranta
University of Technology)
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Industrial waste
and material flows

17. Utilising soils
● Utilisation of industrial waste and contaminated sediments
in the construction of a coastal bay (Ramboll Finland Ltd)
● Piloting of the use of recycled materials in a highway
construction application (Ramboll Finland Ltd)
● Developing Saramäki Recycling Park and the operation of
soil recycling in the Turku region (Kiertomaa Ltd)
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Utilising soils

18. Digital solutions and logistics
• Improving the source-separation and recycling of
waste in a new residential area by installing a smart
waste management and logistics system (City of
Jyväskylä)
• Developing a digital and mobile cloud service tool for
SMEs supply chain management and to prevent
losses (GS1 Finland Ltd)
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Digital
solutions and
logistics

19. CIRCWASTE catalyses action to
improve material efficiency
and recycling in four
key areas in Finland
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20. Regional cooperation groups encourage municipalities, companies and
citizens in material efficiency and recycling
Regional cooperation
• Regional cooperation groups will be established in four key areas in
Finland: Southwest Finland, Central Finland, South Karelia and North
Karelia
• The members of regional cooperation groups are important stakeholders
such as representatives from municipalities, waste management
companies, other companies and authorities
• Regional coordinators will work in the areas with the support from
CIRCWASTE project
• All CIRCWASTE actions will be carried out in four key areas
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21. The tasks of regional cooperation groups are:
Regional cooperation
• Establishing roadmap plans for the implementation of the NWP in a region
• Influencing public and private decision making
• Catalysing regional administration, businesses and residents to act in a
more resource efficient way
• Documentation of the NWP activities implemented in a region
• Mobilizing funding for new activities
• Compiling an implementation plan on executing the regional waste
management plans
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Central Finland
North Karelia
South Karelia
Southwest
Finland
A.1&C.3
A.2&C.4 C.10
C.11
C.12
C.9C.5,C.6,C.7
,C.8
A.3
C.13
A.7&C.15
A.4
C.18 C.20
C.22A.6&C.21
C.14
C.17
Regions, coopertion groups and actions
• Key areas: Southwest
Finland, Central
Finland, South Karelia,
North Karelia
• Around 20 actions
carried out in the
areas (A.1-C.22)
• The regional
cooperation groups
implement the
National Waste
Management Plan in
the areas
Regional
cooperation
group
Regional
cooperation
group
Regional
cooperation
group
Regional
cooperation
group
A.5&C.19
A.8

23. The Circular Economy
Network provides expert
services
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24. The Circular Economy Network offers counselling and tools and shares
information of good practices.
The Circular Economy Network
• The Finnish Environment Institute and Motiva Ltd have established the
Circular Economy Network as part of CIRCWASTE project
• The network
• Provides services and assessments for municipalities, adminstration,
companies and citizens to support in implementation of the National
Waste Management Plan
• Shares information of solutions and good practices
• Brings expert organisations, regional cooperation groups, forerunner
municipalities and other actors together
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Circular
Economy
Network
SYKE & MOTIVA
Central Finland
North Karelia
South Karelia
Southwest
Finland
A.1&C.3
A.2&C.4 C.10
C.11
C.12
C.9C.5,C.6,C.7
,C.8
A.3
C.13
A.7&C.15
A.4
C.18 C.20
C.22A.6&C.21
C.14
C.17
Circular Economy Network provides
expert services
• Circular Economy
Network acts as an
engine: it offers
expert services,
carries out
assessments and
studies, and
communicates results
and good practices to
actors in regions Regional
cooperation
group
Regional
cooperation
group
Regional
cooperation
group
Regional
cooperation
group
A.5&C.19
A.8

26. Tasks of Circular Economy Network 1/2
• Practical support
• Collection and production of background information on good/best practices and success
stories on circular economy
• Support activities for industrial symbiosis
• Training and networking events for the key stakeholders in waste management in the
regions and forerunner municipalities
• Facilitation of the creation of circular economy strategies and roadmaps in the project
regions and forerunner municipalities
• Promotion of getting municipalities to make a commitment to being a forerunner of the
circular economy
• Help desk services:
• Resource efficient public procurement
• Hazardousness and utilisation of by-products/waste
• Financing possibilities
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27. Tasks of Circular Economy Network 2/2
• Development of methods and tools
• Development of regional circular economy indicators
• Life cycle (LC) based tools for environmental and cost analyses of different actors
• Regional impact assessment model
• Material audits
• Research and developement studies including analysis of CIRCWASTE actions
• Impact assessments of circular economy strategies and roadmaps
• Communication and dissemination and sharing best practices
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28. Forerunner municipalities lead
the way towards circular
economy
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29. CIRCWASTE offers municipalities the possibility to become a forerunner in material
efficiency, recycling and circular economy
Forerunner municipalities
• Municipalities can apply to become forerunners
• The Circular Economy Network run by the Finnish Environment Institute
and Motiva Ltd offer selected municipalities services, counselling and
support
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30. Contact us!
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31. Project manager Tuuli Myllymaa
firstname.lastname@ymparisto.fi
Tel. +358 295 251 437
www.materiaalitkiertoon.fi
www.circwaste.fi
Contact information
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