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Veera Hämäläinen

City Ecosystems / Lahti

24 July 2023

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The Textile Deposit pilot scheme wanted to see whether a small incentive could get the locals sorting and recycling their old textiles more actively. With a small reward, the recycling rate for textile waste went up by a staggering 500%.

Finnish City Shows World How Incentive-Based Systems Can Tackle Textile Waste

The Finnish city of Lahti, some 100-odd km to the north of capital Helsinki, has made stupendous progress through its incentive-based collection of textile waste, and has now launched a design competition on how to tackle discarded textiles.

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