Materials from Sweden

At Trifilon's Stockholm office, about once a week, we get deliveries of delicious hemp-seed shakes made by Hempster, a startup based just outside of Stockholm. This podcast features Bettina Schutz, one of the founders of Hempster. She tells the story about how she and her partner started making tasty health drinks.

Could a certificate system get companies to recycle products more? Hanna Ljungkvist Nordin from the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, better known as IVL, gave a lecture about such a certificate system at the Plastteknik Nordic, plastics tradeshow. This is the 6th and final in the series from that tradeshow.

What are Legos made from? Allan Verner Rasmussen is a materials consultant with loads of experience in the plastics industry. He currently works for Plastix and also has his own consultancy Altha Aps. In recent years he also worked for Lego.

Tons of plastics are used to make fishing nets and ropes. In this episode we speak with Hans Axel Kristensen, the CEO of Plastix, a Danish recycling company that gathers up fishing nets and ropes from marinas around the world and gives them a new life.

What is neutron scattering? In this podcast Andrew Jackson from the European Spallation Source tells us about a large project in Lund to build a center where researchers can shoot neutrons at materials in order to study them.

How can government make plastic production sustainable? This podcast is the second of six we recorded from a trade fair called Plastteknik Nordic (Nordic plastics technology). Tobias Nielsen is a postdoctoral fellow from Lund University in the political science department. He works on the STEPS-Mistra program.

Can you get plastics from sugar beets? This podcast is the first of six we recorded from a trade fair called Plastteknik Nordic (Nordic plastics technology). Niklas Warlin is a PhD student from Lund University working in the chemistry department on the STEPS-Mistra program.

Cars, buses, trains, planes and… electric scooters? In this podcast we speak with Joel Franklin, a researcher from KTH, the prestigious engineering institute in Stockholm, about his field of transportation studies and urban initiatives to green up transportation.

Few people know about waste in Sweden with the range and depth of knowledge of this podcast's guest. Åsa Stenmarck works for IVL, the Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Her realms of expertise include consumerism, waste management, and recycling.

Ever find a balloon in your fish dinner? This guest did. Patricia Villarrubia Gómez is a plastic pollution expert at GRID-Arendal, a Norwegian foundation that works closely with the United Nations. She has also worked as a research assistant at the Stockholm Resilience Centre.