Sustainable lifestyles
Malin and Jane have a chat with Estefania Coral Andrade, co-founder of Vågen, about the five Rs: refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, restore.
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Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Hello, plastic-free oceans!
Join in on the ride towards a circular plastics economy in Sweden! Malin Leth and Jane Falkstranden are meeting with businesses that are moving away from taking, making and wasting.
This podcast forms a part of the Ocean Alliance initiative that supports organisations in the transformation through seminars, workshops, podcasting and a toolbox.
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Episodes (31)
On tap
Emilia Molin, CEO at BE WTR, chats with Malin and Jane about the five Rs (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, restore).
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Learn more about 1% for the planet
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
The bag
Malin and Jane talk to Josephine Alhanko, Co-founder and Head of Sales at Reused Remade, about the five Rs (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and restore).
Links
Learn more about Reused Remade
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Taking back
Jane and Malin talk to Emma Hagman, Sustainability Strategist at Götessons Design Group, and Andreas Hultfeldt, Sales Manager at Akustikmiljö, about the five Rs (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and restore).
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Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Vertical farming
Malin and Jane have a chat with Gloria Kraus, Advisor at Hollbium, about the five Rs (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, restore).
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Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Yellow wall
Malin and Jane meet Emma Ruzicka and Anna Nilsson, the two masterminds behind the yellow wall at the Nordic Sustainability Expo. In this interview, they share their ideas and plans for the design.
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Learn more about Stich N Stones
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
To be continued
Malin Leth and Jane Falkstranden briefly talk about the coming Hello, plastic-free oceans! podcast season.
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Read the report "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!"
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Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Recycling trophies
Evelina discusses action at the individual level to increase recycling, with Amanda Berg, communication and PR manager at Isadora and Martin Stenberg, head of sales at Bower.
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Learn more about Bower & Isadora
Read the report "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!"
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Árbediethu
Evelina discusses the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and local business development with Erika Omma Unnes, project manager at Àvki.
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Read the report "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!"
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Print farm
Evelina discusses new ways of manufacturing using recycled content, with Stefan Larsson, CEO and founder of Lostboyslab.
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Read the report "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!"
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Alternative laminate products
Evelina discusses alternative single-use laminate products for the healthcare sector, with Henric Nedéus, deputy managing director and head of business development at Cellcomb.
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Read the report "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!"
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Hello, plastic-free oceans!
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Reusing cups
Evelina discusses the reuse of cups and food containers with Annelise de Jong, project manager and senior researcher at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL)
Links
Report, "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!"
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Superior flowability
Evelina discusses the concept of superior flowability and the development of FibraQ and localised production with Sara Georgsson, Head of Business Development and Sales at Bio Fibertech.
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Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Sound absorbers
This episode is one of many interviews made as a part of the work on our first-ever whitepaper, where we say hello to businesses that are rethinking plastics. This time, Evelina explores the recycled content mix in sound absorbers with Patric Gustafsson, site managager at Akustikmiljö in Falkenberg and Emma Hagman, sustainability strategist at Götessons Design Group.
Links
Götessons Design Group website
Report: Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!
the Keep Sweden Tidy foundation on Linkedin
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Strong communities
This episode is one of many interviews made as a part of the work on our first-ever whitepaper, where we say hello to businesses that are rethinking plastics. This time, Evelina discusses the work behind building strong communities and forming partnerships to drive environmental change with Xenia Brundin, co-founder of Ribban Beach Camp.
Links
Report: Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!
the Keep Sweden Tidy foundation on Linkedin
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Trailer Season 2
Malin and Jane discuss the coming episodes with Evelina Lundqvist, that’s all about sharing insights from businesses that are rethinking plastics. Working on our first-ever whitepaper on this topic, Evelina has a lot of audio and written material in the making!
Learn more about the report "Hello, businesses rethinking plastics!" here
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Plastic Baltic Sea
Malin and Jane explore the plastic pollution situation in the Baltic Sea, together with Eva Blidberg, Marine litter expert at the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation and Per Normark, scuba instructor and chair of Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) Sweden. The talk is framed around these questions
Q1. What have you learnt from a decade of litter measurements along the coastlines? (00:30)
Q2. What sources are there to plastic pollution in the Baltic Sea? (01:07)
Q3. How bad is it below the surface? (04:13)
Q4. What have you learnt from locating and removing ghost fishing gear around shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea? (05:00)
Q5. What has surprised you the most? (06:40)
Q6. What is the one thing that we often don’t get, talking about the current status of the Baltic Sea? (08:45)
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GUE Sweden, project: removing ghost fishing gear
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Cars
Malin discusses the circular flow of one of the materials used in cars; plastics, and the development of plastic circularity with Andreas Frössberg, CEO of the Swedish Car Recyclers Association. The talk is framed around these questions:
Q1. If we look at the car as a product in a circular flow, how would you describe it, Andreas? (01:26)
Q2. How much of the car is made of plastics, in general? (05:19)
Q3. What is the development regarding plastics in cars? (07:11)
Q4. Are there any initiatives or projects you could tell us about to increase the recycling and reuse of plastics in cars? (10:48)
Q5. What action do you think would be needed to reduce the number of plastics in the car industry that is not yet recirculated? (12:30)
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Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
Fish business
Malin and Jane explore the impact of lost, discarded or abandoned fishing gear and what action is taken from a global to local scale to stop it with Inger Melander, Expert Fisheries and Market at WWF. The talk is framed around these questions:
Q1: How is lost or abandoned fishing gear a problem? (01:16)
Q2: Do you know of any initiatives working to reduce the amount of lost or abandoned fishing gear globally? (03:04)
Q3: What are some of the most common reasons to lose, discard or abandon fishing gear? (04:40)
Q4: How could it be prevented? (06:30)
Q5: How could the EPR (extended producer responsibility) be applied in this context, reduce marine plastic pollution? 07:20)
Q6: What are the most common ways of operating fish farms in the Baltic Region? (08:36)
Q7: What kind of waste and litter could you expect from an aquaculture facility in the Baltic Sea? (10:13)
LINKS AND SOURCES
Frameworks
EPR fishing gear (position paper IUCN)
Best-practice framework for the management of aquaculture gear
Reports
Stopping Ghost Gear | Projects | WWF (worldwildlife.org)
New Report from WWF Says Addressing Abandoned Fishing Gear Must be Central in the Fight Against Plastic Pollution | Press Releases | WWF (worldwildlife.org)
Stop Ghost Gear: The Most Deadly Form of Marine Plastic Debris | Publications | WWF (worldwildlife.org)
Stoppa plastföroreningarna! - Världsnaturfonden WWF
Removal of derelict fishing gear | WWF (panda.org)
EU SUP Directive -- EU’s Directive on single-use plastics
Single-use plastics (europa.eu)
EUR-Lex - 32019L0904 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)
EU Council Regulation No.1224/2009 (article 48): EUR-Lex - 32009R1224 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)
International Agreements and Conventions
United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS): UNCLOS - Table of Contents
Marpol: MARPOL (imo.org)
London Convention and Protocol: Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (imo.org)
Non-binding Guidelines and Resolutions
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), The Code for responsible Fisheries (CCRF 1995): FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture - Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
International Guidelines on Bycatch Management and Reduction of Discards (2011)
International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IPOA-IUU; 2001)
FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Marking of Fishing Gear (VGMFG; 2019)
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg
From EU to Sweden
Malin discusses how the Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Directive was landed in Sweden with Anna Cedrum and Malin Johansson, responsible for the implementation of the SUP in Sweden and working at the Ministry of Environment. The talk is framed around these questions:
Q1. What’s the base for the directive? (01:24)
Q2. For how long did the negotiations run? (01:54)
Q3. What followed then after the negotiations? (03:10)
Q4. So putting it in the Swedish context, what did you do? (03:50)
Q5. So, it’s been a long process of defining the how and getting to the output level of where we are today? (05:09)
Q6. Have you been dealing with a lot of different inputs and opinions? (07:07)
Q7. It seems like it is a short time frame in Sweden? (07:45)
Q8. How does it work when you go to the parliament? (08:54)
Q9. Are there any steps left for implementing the SUP directive? (09:46)
Q10. How is the SUP directive linked to business? (10:28)
Q11. How does awareness-raising work in the SUP directive? (11:56)
Q12. Does all of this go through the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency? (13:15)
Q13. What about the fine that’s quite unique for Sweden? (13:52)
Credits
Artwork: Giancarlo Mitidieri
Jingle: Frans Sjöberg