THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
of day in households. Reusing clothes
and furniture is the norm. The strengths
of the circular economy as an alternative
to throwaway consumption are becoming
increasingly clear.
Our product, port and stevedoring services
with shipping at the core build on an eco
system service. A service from nature’s
ecosystems that contributes to our well-
being where we get the benefit directly
without consuming anything. Shipping
traffic uses the water’s ready-made infra
structure systems without requiring the
intervention of the causeways or embank
ments in nature. A large and increasing
part of our business contributes to the cir
cular economy, but on an industrial scale.
This includes recycled metals, wood chips
from forests and from collected recycled
materials, collected and sorted waste, and
sawdust converted to wood pellets. As
one of our English customers exclaimed,
“You bring us IKEA, we bring it back
(as woodchips)”
We are proud to be part of the change
that is under way and see the necessity of
working industrially to get proper leverage
on individual initiatives. 2016 was a very
good year, and we are looking forward to
continued positive developments with our
customers and partners in 2017.
Erik Zetterlund, CEO
A NEWSLETTER FROM THE PORT OF OXELÖSUND
MARCH 2017
16.5m
Global warming gets a lot of media space.
Individual measures that concern each
and every one of us have been highlighted.
Nudging, which is to push or lead us in
a different direction to the one we would
otherwise have taken, is a key word for
those who want to influence, it streams
toward us as soon as the media channels
are turned on. We are subjected to the
impact of what we eat, what we consume
and how we live. Organic products,
especially raw food or algae enriched
food, is good. Meat is not so good unless
it comes from Swedish cows. The sharing
economy is growing in the business world
through phenomena such as Air BnB
and Uber, as well as car and appliance
pools that are beginning to see the light
Photo: Bobo Lindblad