Miia Liikanen

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at UPM

The European Commission's ambitious construction and demolition waste (CDW) material recovery target has placed pressure on Finland to increase its CDW material recovery rate. It has been identified that using CDW fractions, e.g. waste wood, plastic, mineral wool and plasterboard, as raw materials for wood polymer composites (WPCs) may help in reac...

Available online: https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/sdp-volumes/13/8/2355 LUT University repository: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2018122051400 ------------------------ The prevailing large-scale use of chemical fertilizers has been affecting environmental degradation. a broken nutrient cycle has caused problems worldwide, which are related to the qu...

Landfill disposal has thus far been the predominant treatment method for municipal solid waste (MSW) throughout Brazil, including São Paulo city. Environmentally sustainable development of MSW management in São Paulo necessitates a stepwise reduction of landfilling. However, ever increasing MSW generation poses the challenge of managing increasing...

Permanent link to document: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-335-227-8 The purpose of this report is to identify and quantify potential waste materials for rematerialization in the South Karelia region. The Kompotek re-materialization pilot plant utilizes various waste materials, which mainly originates from construction and demolition (C&D) activiti...

Permanent link to document: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-335-228-5 Rakennusjätteen koostumustutkimus toteutettiin osana FISS Etelä-Karjalan teollisten symbioosien palvelu -hanketta, joka on Lappeenrannan kaupungin ja Lappeenrannan teknillisen yliopiston (LUT:n) yhteishanke. Hanke on Euroopan aluekehitysrahaston osittain rahoittama, ja se alkoi 1....

The life cycle assessment (LCA) of municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems is typically rather arduous due to extensive data acquisition needed to calculate the direct and avoided emissions of the systems. A possibility to diminish the workload of the LCA studies is to utilise default or generic data instead of direct and case-specific data....

Permanent link to Lappeenranta University of Technology depository: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2016092724379 Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is becoming increasingly popular around the world as a means of accommodating the increasing amounts of waste that the growing global population generates. China currently produces more MSW than any ot...

More efficient recycling of municipal solid waste (MSW) is an essential precondition for turning Europe into a circular economy. Thus, the recycling of MSW must increase significantly in several member states, including Finland. This has increased the interest in the composition of mixed MSW. Due to increased information needs, a method for mixed M...