It is gratifying to another municipality wants to take on the challenge of sustainable public consumption and practice what you preach by re-using their own existing resources, says Fredrik Östlin CEO of off2off. <! - More -> In line with Ystad Municipality's Environment Programme and future waste management system is one of the environmental objectives of sustainable consumption. One way of Ystad Municipality to work with waste minimization is to implement a recycling system internally within the municipality, says Andreaz Strömgren, Planning Manager in Ystad To focus on waste minimization and recycling goes in line with the EU disposalhierki and is an obvious focus for us in Ystad, continues Andreaz Strömgren, when asked about why Ystad now chosen to autumn implement the system off2off offer. By showing that as the municipality take responsibility and show the way how to work towards a sustainable consumption internally within the municipal organization gives also good signals to residents. In addition to the system is simple and user-friendly, we also continuous monitoring in the form of statistics. In terms of waste minimization is also working Ystad in other ways against local residents, for example, by highlighting Waste Swedish label millionaire-friendly. The purpose of this label is to highlight the activities of the municipality that help us to make wise environmental choices by being able to cook, borrow and reuse our gadgets. Even Off2Off have the label millionaire-friendly . It is important to weave together various stakeholders, businesses and organizations to strive towards a sustainable society, and reduced waste and thus create a VI feeling. Therefore, we take in Ystad is now a holistic approach where we weave together the next cleaning device with Ystad Municipality's environmental programs, where our objective is to jointly contribute to a sustainable society for our future generations concludes Andreaz Strömgren.

Re: Source is the name of the SIA* in resource and waste management. The program will increase economic and environmental sustainability in resource and waste management, thereby contributing to resource efficiency in business and society, creating new business opportunities, strengthening competitiveness and meeting global challenges. off2off is included as one of the key businesses and support. Coordinator is the Swedish National Testing and Research Institute. * VINNOVA, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas jointly investing SEK 430 million in five new strategic innovation agenda. Business, academia and the public sector is consolidating to create conditions for sustainable solutions to global societal challenges and strengthening Sweden's competitiveness. Read Vinnova's press release here. Additional information about RE: Source found here.

On 12 March,  The Swedish Waste Management and Recycling organisation (Avfall Sverige) network for waste prevention had a conference and our CEO Fredrik Östlin participated. The day featured many interesting discussions and talks mainly about the circular economy, where the following issues were held. 1. What can we change in our community / organization? 2. Where can we start? 3. What can we buy? Our president raised the issue of purchase to another level and summarizes it below. -We have to stop talking purchasing process as a whole. It is necessary, the process that is the big picture where the purchase can be a part! We first need to make visible and match the functional surplus available within the organization, before we start talking any purchases, says Fredrik Östlin, off2offs CEO.  

Our CEO Fredrik Östlin participated April 28, as a special guest as one of five Swedish companies, at the workshop "Moving Towards a Circular Economy - The New Nordic Business Models for Resource Efficiency and Waste Prevention" by the Nordic Council of Ministers organized. Keynote speaker was Sandy Rodger, Lead, Project Mainstream, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Oksana Mont, Professor, Researcher on New Business Models and Circular Economy, Lund University. The presentations highlighted off2off up as a clear example of circular economy. -One of the best and most rewarding workshops I attended, thoughtful, quality and commitment. Including the lunch experience at Copenhagen Street Food on Paper Island (organic), says our CEO Fredrik Östlin Do you want to get a glance of the results of the workshop, see the movie here under!