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Materials from Sweden features free-form chats with experts about consumer products, what they're made of, and how sustainable they are.

  1. MFS #18 - Hempster's Hemp-based Shake - Bettina Schutz

    06/14/2019

    MFS #18 - Hempster's Hemp-based Shake - Bettina Schutz

    At Trifilon's Stockholm office, about once a week, we get deliveries of delicious hemp-seed shakes made by Hempster, a startup based just outside of Stockholm. This podcast features Bettina Schutz, one of the founders of Hempster. She tells the story about how she and her partner started making tasty health drinks.

    39 min
  2. MFS #17 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Certificates for Recycling, Hanna Ljungkvist Nordin

    06/03/2019

    MFS #17 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Certificates for Recycling, Hanna Ljungkvist Nordin

    Could a certificate system get companies to recycle products more? Hanna Ljungkvist Nordin from the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, better known as IVL, gave a lecture about such a certificate system at the Plastteknik Nordic, plastics tradeshow. This is the 6th and final in the series from that tradeshow.

    57 min

  3. 06/03/2019

    MFS #16 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, A Plastics Specialist - Allan Verner Rasmussen

    What are Legos made from? Allan Verner Rasmussen is a materials consultant with loads of experience in the plastics industry. He currently works for Plastix and also has his own consultancy Altha Aps. In recent years he also worked for Lego.

    1h 2m

  4. 06/03/2019

    MFS #15 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Recycling Fishing Nets - Hans Axel Kristensen

    Tons of plastics are used to make fishing nets and ropes. In this episode we speak with Hans Axel Kristensen, the CEO of Plastix, a Danish recycling company that gathers up fishing nets and ropes from marinas around the world and gives them a new life.

    39 min

  5. 05/29/2019

    MFS#14 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Neutron Scattering - Andrew Jackson

    What is neutron scattering? In this podcast Andrew Jackson from the European Spallation Source tells us about a large project in Lund to build a center where researchers can shoot neutrons at materials in order to study them.

    1h 2m

  6. 05/29/2019

    MFS#13 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, Policy - Tobias Nielsen

    How can government make plastic production sustainable? This podcast is the second of six we recorded from a trade fair called Plastteknik Nordic (Nordic plastics technology). Tobias Nielsen is a postdoctoral fellow from Lund University in the political science department. He works on the STEPS-Mistra program.

    1h 11m
  7. MFS#12 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, A Chemist - Niklas Warlin

    05/29/2019

    MFS#12 - From the Plastics Tradeshow, A Chemist - Niklas Warlin

    Can you get plastics from sugar beets? This podcast is the first of six we recorded from a trade fair called Plastteknik Nordic (Nordic plastics technology). Niklas Warlin is a PhD student from Lund University working in the chemistry department on the STEPS-Mistra program.

    49 min

  8. 05/24/2019

    MFS#11 - Green Transportation Studies - Joel Franklin

    Cars, buses, trains, planes and… electric scooters? In this podcast we speak with Joel Franklin, a researcher from KTH, the prestigious engineering institute in Stockholm, about his field of transportation studies and urban initiatives to green up transportation.

    1h 12m
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