Waste traffic in Finland feeds lucrative illegal industry
Finland’s environment ministry says there are insufficient monitoring resources to combat mounting environmental crimes in the country. “It’s a clear
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Compost facility upgrades in Whitehorse, northwestern Canada to help keep up with demand
The Whitehorse compost facility is getting an upgrade as the amount of waste diverted from the landfill grows. In 2018,
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Only 1 % of Finnish waste sent to landfill
Some 60 percent of Finnish refuse is burnt at incinerators. New figures from Statistics Finland show that just one percent
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Mounting garbage a problem in northern Finland
During the busy winter season the seasonal population in Kittilä, Lapland quintuples and so does the trash left behind. Christmas
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Russian Navy sends clean-up team to Arctic trash dump
Russia’s Northern Fleet sends an ecological clean-up team to Kotelny island to collect and crush oil drums dumped during the
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Cleaning up litter has expensive price tag in Finland
Spring has finally arrived in Finland, revealing massive amounts of waste that has accumulated along the motorways and in the
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