Material Efficiency

Eco-efficiency and recycling have rapidly created a new area of business. Eco-efficiency is strongest in Oulu in the areas of material efficiency, development processes that save raw materials (industrial ecology), and recycling and reducing the amount of produced by-products and waste. Waste, which used to be only a nuisance, is increasingly becoming a valuable commodity, as more and more often it can be used as raw material of new products.

Wireless waste
As the number of wireless devices in the world is increasing at a rapid pace, the number of rechargeable batteries powering the devices is also increasing.

In the mobile world the power supplies of wireless products can be recharged, but before long they reach the end of their life cycle and become hazardous waste. Best Available Technology (BAT) in recycling batteries and accumulators is developed in Oulu - the City of Wireless Communications. There are also various cutting-edge separation and recycling methods for e-waste developed in Oulu.