Articles and blog posts on plastics

If you design, manufacture or sell plastic products, there are several EU regulations that you must comply with in order to promote the use of circular plastics. SUPD, PPWR, WEEE – to name a few. "There's no need to be afraid of the legislation and rush into solutions," says Mattias Andersson, a s…

Vehicles can be made much more sustainable than they are today. This was concluded by project SVIS, which wrapped up this autumn. Within the project, RISE and partners explored the potential for recycling and reusing vehicle interiors, generating circular solutions that could shape the future of th…

By 2030, IKEA intends for all the plastic used in their products to be recycled or renewable. With the hope of developing new sustainable solutions through cross-border collaboration along the entire value chain, IKEA has entered into partnership with the National Center for Sustainable Plastics at…

Plastic becomes new plastic, which becomes new plastic, which becomes new plastic, and on it goes. Using materials in a cycle is important for us to achieve the national environmental and climate goals and the global goals in the 2030 Agenda. The speciality chemicals group Perstorp is now participa…

Plastic is everywhere in our everyday lives and is in many ways a fantastic material. At the same time, plastic can be problematic, not least from a chemical perspective. Is plastic a hero or a villain, and how do we move towards sustainable plastic use?

Googling the Swedish words for “replace plastics” will produce more than 2.6 million hits. Googling in English will get you an incredible 3 billion hits. It's easy to get the impression that the world is in agreement – plastics must be phased out. But at RISE, Anna Wiktorsson is working with both s…