Hard plastic waste management in the Northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland faces significant logistical and technical challenges due to low population density, long transport distances, and limited recycling infrastructure. In the transition toward a circular plastics economy, one of the most persistent challenges lies not in the recycling technologies themselves, but in the sustainable collection of plastic feedstock—particularly in rural and Arctic regions.

While technological solutions for sorting, processing, and recycling hard plastics have advanced rapidly in recent years, these innovations depend on a stable and sufficient flow of collected materials. Read more below!