As an industrial city and a port on an inlet of the Baltic Sea, Norrköping in southeastern Sweden strives to prevent pollutants from ending up in waterways. In an ongoing pilot project, pollutants carried by stormwater run-offs will be captured in a massive, tailor-made Uponor Vault, a stormwater treatment chamber to ensure that the stormwater is purified before it reaches the Ljura Stream and finally the sea.
Uponor, a leading global provider of sustainable water solutions for buildings and infrastructure, announces that its new, even more ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets were approved on 20 April 2023 by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The initiative also approved Uponor’s target of reaching Net Zero emissions by 2040. The approval means that SBTi’s independent experts have reviewed and validated the targets to be in line with the Paris agreement and latest climate science.
We talked with with Natalia Rincón – Co-Founder and CEO at CHAOS, an AI startup focused on location intelligence forecasts to improve the liveability of cities. We discussed topics such as sustainable urban development and data-driven urban planning.
Higest purity wastewater in Swedish village of Överklinten. When the existing ground-based wastewater system was condemned, there was an investigation as to an appropriate way of serving the 41 properties in the village, namely a preschool, a business, a hotel, two summer cabins and 36 permanent residences. An Uponor Infra WehoPuts treatment plant was chosen.
How to monitor water quality? In this interview we talked with Patryk Wójtowicz – Research Manager at Savonia University of Applied Sciences, and Water Network Modelling Expert in the field of environmental engineering. We talked about the organisations he’s involved in that could help bring technological innovation, and more accurate measuring and modelling, to the water utilities industry.
During this conversation with Franz Cuculiza, Business Director of Denmark’s first plastic recycling company we discussed recycling plastic materials and the circular economy. These topics are becoming more important by the day. That’s why it is crucial to think about waste management now and not leave problems to the next generations.
Our conversation with Nicklas Kaskeala, Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Compensate starts by explaining carbon offsetting, how it works and how it is regulated. Then we look at some of the projects used, from reforestation to kelp and biochar; and finally, talk about who is using offsetting and who should be using it.
Uponor has decided to close down its assembly factory in Ehingen, Germany, and move the assembly operation to its facility in Poland.
We had an interview with Klara Ramn – Executive Committee member of EurEau, the European Federation of National Associations of Water Services, which represents Europe's drinking and wastewater service providers from 30 countries, in both the private and public sectors. This fascinating conversation covers a wide range of topics from water regulation to water loss, the cost of running and renovating water networks and how money is generated from tariffs, taxes and transfers.