Many companies have adopted a proactive approach to the environment, with the aim of utilizing natural resources more efficiently and reducing the environmental impact of production processes, transportation and products. From green chemistry to nanotechnology, any number of fields present opportunities for dramatic environmental improvements.
Cities may be future mines
In cities across the world, there are millions of tons of obsolete cables and pipes. The grounds underneath our cities are like mines. In Sweden, hidden deposits of aluminum, copper and lead have a value of several tens of billions of dollars on the world…
Plastics with sugarcane instead of oil
Without chemistry, the world would look very different and our planet would certainly not exist in the way we know it. Chemistry is in our air, in our soil, in our water and in all living organisms. Chemistry shows us how the world works. It helps us…
The time is ripe for lead-free steel
In Sweden’s national environmental quality objective ‘A non-toxic environment,’ lead is described as a hazardous substance for both people and the environment. The use of lead has been regulated for a long time, but still there are many items that…
- Producing electricity and heat with solar energy
One of the first articles in our series about products that have had a positive effect on the environment was published back in 2008. It… - Norrgavel – Furniture made for function, form and the environment
“I want to create furniture that gives us a gateway to what’s important in life and that brings us closer to the essence of life,”… - Energy-efficient Timber Drying
The moisture quotient of the wood shouldn’t be higher or lower than the surrounding air where it is to be used. In a living tree,… - An Energy-Efficient “Gas Pedal” for Electric Motors
Most of us don’t give a great deal of thought to the functioning of static frequency converters, known as “drives.” But for companies… - Icy Technology to Clean Contaminated Sites
Toxic contamination is a problem at hundreds of thousands of sites on land and in the sediments beneath lakes and streams all over the world.… - A Cure for Waterborne Drug Waste
People living in countries like Sweden often take abundant, high-quality water for granted. But elsewhere in the world it can be hard to… - Biofuels opening new markets for heat exchangers
Sweden’s Alfa Laval, founded more than 125 years ago by Gustaf De Laval, the inventor of the centrifugal milk separator, has grown into…
