EURO-ECO 2008 Hanover 18 - 20 November 2008	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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During the period May, 2007 – July, 2008 the TACIS-funded project “Exchange of secondary raw materials and technology between Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland” was carried out by experts of St.-Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics (St.-Petersburg, Russia) and Lappeenranta University of Technology (Lappeenranta, Finland). The main objective of the project was to develop the environmental line of business by creating new means for cross-border trade of environmental services, technologies and materials in the region of Southeast Finland and the region of Northwest Russia including St Petersburg and Leningrad oblast. A functional objective was to develop a tool for material (refined from by-products and waste materials), service and technology change between Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland. The Material Exchange portal which was created during the project would be a common tool for Finnish and Russian enterprises in management of environmental trade. The intention was to create profitable, international co-operation during the project. One objective was to find out the supply and demand of waste and secondary raw materials in Finland and in Russia and to look into the most efficient ways of doing business considering the life cycle costs, optimising the recovery rate and minimizing the environmental impacts of waste utilization. Another objective was to find out technology and equipment for solid waste processing, including recycling, composting and energy production. And at last third objective was to develop logistics chains in the field of waste management, including waste recycling and re-using, organizing training and re-training programs and consulting services for local authority representatives and specialists in solid waste management (SWM). A long-term objective was to raise the level of SWM in the Northwest region of Russia.

The results of the project are:

• the informational base on the amounts of supply and demand of material, technologies and services in St Petersburg and Leningrad oblast was created. It helps to the actors of solid waste management system of Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland to fined the ways and calculate the amounts of potential cooperation in material and technology exchange;
• the methodological base for legal requirements concerning by-product transport from Russia and Finland and from Finland to Russia was created. It helps to the actors of solid waste management system of Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland to recognise the procedure of by-product transportation from Russia and Finland and from Finland to Russia and prepare all the necessary documents for it;
• the Russian part of web-portal «Material Exchange» was developed and adopted for three-languages web-portal. Now every actor of solid waste management system of Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland: engineering companies, waste management companies, consultants, waste producers (forest industry, metal industry, trade, food industry, extractive industry, agriculture and so on), users of the products produced from waste materials and also companies making R&D in
• related technologies and producers of equipment already could put the information about their needs (to buy or to sell the secondary materials, technologies, equipment) on the Russian part of web-portal “Material Exchange”;
• all who interested was supplied with the information of the “Material Exchange” project, the results of the project were disseminate and potential partners for material exchange between Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland were involved in the project.

So, the results of caring out in the framework of “Material Exchange” project researches and dissemination of the information could become a basis for solving problems in SWM sphere of Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland. Practically results also could become a basis in elaboration of investment project for organising of waste processing plant in cooperation between partners from Northwest Russia and Southeast Finland.