How Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood

Finland wants to make everything from ceramics to medical devices and even satellites from wood, helping it to hit carbon neutrality by 2035

How Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood
Environment 21 October 2021

By Graham Lawton

Forest Scorpion machine

A Scorpion forestry instrumentality adjacent Helsinki, Finland

Graham Lawton

I’m successful a wood successful Finland watching trees dice a brutal death. A monstrous instrumentality similar thing from The War of the Worlds is lumbering among the pines, its deadly limb swaying menacingly. Every present and again it selects a victim, grasps it astatine the basal and slices done the trunk similar butter. As the histrion crashes done the canopy, the instrumentality – called a Scorpion – raises it aloft arsenic if successful triumph, strips the branches and butchers the trunk into three. It …

Existing subscribers, delight log in with your email code to nexus your relationship access.

Paid quarterly

Inclusive of applicable taxes (VAT)

What's Your Reaction?

like

dislike

love

funny

angry

sad

wow