David Watson

Bjørn Bauer

Naoko Tojo

Harald Throne-Holst

Anja Charlotte Gylling

Leonidas Milios

The circular economy offer opportunities to reduce resource use and waste whilst providing business opportunities. This is also true in the mobile phone industry that has been characterised by high rates of product obsolescence. The emergence of the smart phone has changed the landscape, making repair, refurbishment and resell attractive to businesses and consumers. Moreover, emerging modular phone design should allow functional upgrades with low resource wastage. This report investigates the adoption of circular business models within Nordic markets. Producers, retailers, refurbishers, recyclers and resellers tell of their motivation, experiences and the challenges that they face. A special look is taken at consumer and waste law and the challenges and opportunities they represent. The report ends with 17 policy proposals that can accelerate the adoption of circularity in the sector.

Circular Business Models in the Mobile Phone Industry

Approaches in the Nordic Countries : Summary Report

Greening State Framework Contracts

Luitzen de Boer

Rikke Fischer-Bogason

Timo Kivistö

Sigurd Vildåsen

The purpose of this study was to clear out how Green Public Procurement has been realized in state framework contracts in the Nordic countries, to propose country-specific ways to improve the situation, and to draw a general model of efficient ways to realize green state framework contracts. The study was carried through in 2014 and 2015 by Bjørn Bauer and Rikke Fischer-Bogason (PlanMiljø, Denmark), Luitzen de Boer and Sigurd Vildåsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and Timo Kivistö (Kivistö Consulting, Finland). The study was supervised by the Working Group of Nordic Council of Ministers for Sustainable Consumption and Production (i.e. HKP-group). In addition to this Full Report, the project has also resulted in a short Summary Report and a power point presentation (slides), including the key findings and conclusions.

Greening state framework contracts - Approaches in the Nordic countries

McKinnon, David

Lander Svendsen, Nina

Dalhammar, Carl

Milios, Leonidas

Ucar Sokoli, Hülya

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-553/ This report explores what the Nordic countries can do to promote the use of recyclable plastic components in electrical and electronic products, with particular focus on minimising their hazardous chemical component. The report provides an overview of the hazardous additives currently used in the plastic components of EEE, drawing on information available from legislation and supporting studies, research and academia, NGOs and market actors. The results presented here build upon input collected though a literature study, a policy analysis of EU and Nordic legislation and initiatives, interviews with experts across the value chain and an expert workshop. Together these inputs were used to assess and qualify possible future actions in the Nordic countries to minimise hazardous chemicals in plastic components of EEE.

Circular plastics in electrical and electronic equipment

Anders Christiansen

Mette Skovbjerg

Kia Rose Egebæk

Cirkulær økonomi i kommunen handler om en kredsløbsfokuseret grøn omstilling på tværs af forvaltninger og i alle kommunens aktiviteter. Igennem planlægning, myndighedsopgaver, indkøb, udbud og erhvervsfremmeindsatser kan kommunen accelerere den cirkulære omstilling i erhvervslivet og i services til borgerne. Denne vejledning opsamler og formidler erfaringer og metoder på cirkulære initiativer fra kommuner over hele Norden, så indsatsen kan blive endnu mere dynamisk og effektfuld.

Cirkulær guide: Fællesnordisk vejledning til udvikling af "den cirkulære kommune" i Norden

Bjørn Bauer

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