Circular economy business

Motiva material marketplace

Materiaalitori (i.e. Material Marketplace) promotes the utilization of waste, side streams and surplus materials as well as reusable parts. The service is owned by the Ministry of the Environment of Finland and operated by Motiva Oy.

Materiaalitori acts both as a compulsory service for waste management and as a place where providers and users of circular materials can find each other.

Materiaalitori is one component of a larger circular economy puzzle, where there is a disconnect between supply and demand for circular economy.

We helped Motiva to identify the current demand for the service, key parameters impacting its use and challenges in the underlying circularity market logic in general.

We defined a set of service concepts for solving the key challenges, including assessment of the costs, benefits and business cases, as well as validating these concepts with key stakeholders.

We developed a recommendation and implementation roadmap for both Materiaalitori and the underlying activation of the circular economy in construction industry.