Descripción del proyecto
Estrategias para eliminar las sustancias persistentes móviles del medio ambiente
Las sustancias persistentes móviles (PM, por sus siglas en inglés) y polares son una amenaza potencial para la calidad del agua. No se (bio)degradan y la adsorción no resulta eficaz para eliminar dichas sustancias durante el tratamiento del agua. El equipo del proyecto ZeroPM, financiado con fondos europeos, establecerá vínculos y sinergias entre las estrategias de prevención, priorización y eliminación para proteger el medio ambiente y la salud humana de las sustancias PM. El proyecto, que cuenta con quince socios, reúne a los principales investigadores, reguladores y expertos en innovación en el ámbito de la química verde. ZeroPM será un proyecto pionero que hará realidad las ambiciones de la Estrategia de sostenibilidad para las sustancias químicas de la Unión Europea y apoyará la transición hacia un medio ambiente libre de tóxicos y sin contaminación.
Objetivo
ZeroPM will interlink and synergize prevention, prioritization and removal strategies to protect the environment and human health from persistent, mobile (PM) substances. To do this, ZeroPM will establish an evidence-based multilevel framework to guide policy, technological and market incentives to minimize use, emissions and pollution of entire groups of PM substances.
To prevent pollution, ZeroPM will activate the momentum of the EU's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and support its implementation through the development of scientific, policy and market tools supporting essential use and mitigation of prioritized PM substances, resulting in substitution to safe and sustainable alternatives. ZeroPM will prioritize PM substances and substance groups through the development and application of robust screening and prioritization tools aimed at identifying all PM substances on the global chemical inventory. These tools will take into consideration production, use, presence in the circular economy, hazard and risk established by advancing in silico and in vitro new approach methodologies (NAM) using non-animal approaches. ZeroPM will develop next generation remediation techniques to remove prioritized PM substances from water resources, drinking water and sludge-derived products sustainably.
ZeroPM unites leading researchers, regulators and green chemistry innovation experts that have been instrumental in advancing the science and awareness of PM substances, to form an exemplary multidisciplinary team. ZeroPM will deliver policy improvements, an increase in business opportunities and competitiveness, an improved livelihood for EU citizens and beyond state of the art methods, to prevent regrettable substitution and regrettable remediation of PM substance groups. ZeroPM will be the pathfinding project enabling the ambitions of the Chemical Strategy to become an on-the-ground reality, supporting the movement towards a zero pollution, toxic-free environment.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processes
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-LC-GD-2020-3
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
0855 Oslo
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