The ERC-funded WasteMatters project will disrupt the waste-as-resource paradigm that prevails in the circular economy. It will study the vibrant nature and active role of waste in how we live together.
The research will be carried out through four sub-studies across various sites in Finland and Sweden and focus on food waste, plastic waste, waste incineration ash and nuclear waste.
The findings will address waste as both constitutive of society and as something that disturbs it.
Project group
The project is lead by Professor Olli Pyyhtinen. Project group members are Alma Onali, Ulla-Maija Sutinen and Stylianos Davos.
Funding
European Research Council ERC
Contact persons
Olli Pyyhtinen
ProfessorFaculty of Social Sciences
Tampere University
phone number+358503187311
City Centre Campus
Olli Pyyhtinen