Alliance of Finnish Raw Material Recycling
We advance sustainable and economic acquisition, processing, and use of recycled raw materials in Finland since 1950’s.
The Alliance of Finnish Raw Material Recycling acts as a round table for the members in order to enable mutual interaction and exchange of professional knowledge. Main activities annually are to organize seminars and expert lecturing for the members and organizing a study tour for its’ member representatives who are usually member organization’s executive directors or management groups members.
The Alliance has organized study tours since 1970’s in order to bring the members together, learn the best practices of circular economy and to bring Finnish knowledge abroad:
- Soviet Union 1978
- Denmark 1981
- Germany 1983
- Hungary 1986
- Israel 1990
- China 1992
- Germany 1993
- Turkey 1994
- Switzerland and Austria 1997
- Ireland 1998
- Hungary 1999
- Italy 2000
- Portugal 2001
- Greece 2002
- France 2003
- Slovenia 2005
- Scotland 2006
- Poland 2007
- Belgium & Holland 2008
- Germany 2009
- Austria 2010
- Turkey 2011
- Russia 2012
- Sweden 2013
- Spain 2015
- Czech Republic 2016
- Italy 2017
- Iceland 2018
- Croatia 2019
- Finland, Nuutajärvi 2021
- Norway 2022
- Belgium 2023
Nowadays the Alliance of Finnish Raw Material Recycling consists of approximately 40 member organizations ranging from companies in collection and recycling of paper, fibre, metal and electronic devices to organizations liable to the producer responsibility.
