Funding for initiative to end Swedish wool waste
A government-funded innovation agency in Sweden, Vinnova, is helping to fund a project called the Swedish Wool Initiative.
Non-profit Axfoundation set up the Swedish Wool Initiative in 2020 following reports that, in 2019, Swedish companies had imported 1,650 tonnes of wool. At the same time, only 37% of all the wool produced by Swedish farmers was used.
Axfoundation said this was a huge waste of a resource that could provide Swedish manufacturers of clothing and other products with local, biobased and recyclable material, helping them transition to a sustainable and circular industry.
Outdoor brand Fjällräven is one of a group of companies involved in discussions to find the best way to use the Vinnova funding to put the project into effect.
Image shows Axfoundation’s programme director for the circular economy, Hanna Skoog, with wool classifier Linnea Eklund.
