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Ecological Solutions for Recovery of Secondary Raw Materials from Post-consumer Fibreboards

Descrizione del progetto

Tecnologia innovativa di riciclaggio per i rifiuti di cartone

I pannelli di fibra a media densità sono diventati la base imprescindibile per la costruzione di mobili. Per questo motivo, i rifiuti di cartone sono cresciuti in modo esponenziale. Tuttavia, non esistono metodi di riciclaggio commercialmente validi per i pannelli di fibra a fine vita. Il progetto EcoReFibre, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà e testerà tecnologie innovative di riciclaggio ecocompatibili e commercialmente valide per i rifiuti di cartone. Il consorzio coinvolgerà importanti istituti di ricerca, aziende e associazioni europee. Il progetto convaliderà e dimostrerà queste tecnologie in un ambiente operativo come prototipi di sistema o nel relativo ambiente industriale. EcoReFibre è importante per i settori europei dei pannelli a base di legno e del riciclaggio del legno, viste le varie sfide di mercato interconnesse nella creazione di materiali secondari dai rifiuti di legno. Queste tecnologie saranno trasferibili e sfruttabili per molte altre bioindustrie.

Obiettivo

The goal of EcoReFibre is to develop and demonstrate innovative demos for environmentally sound and commercially viable recycling of end-of-life fibreboards, which currently have no commercially viable recycling methods. The quantities of fibreboard waste are growing exponentially in line with the growth in production capacity, and it is highly likely that more than 60 million tons of fibreboard waste have been created in Europe the last 5 years. This has caught the European recycling sector off-guard. EcoReFibre is crucial to Europe's wood-based panel and wood recycling sectors because of various inter-linked market challenges of the current situation for creating secondary materials from wood waste. EcoReFibre builds a strong pan-European consortium bringing together leading research institutes, companies and European associations who will develop and demonstrate a range of recycling technologies for waste fibreboard. Validation and demonstration of the technologies will take place in an operational environment as system prototypes (TRL7) or in the relevant industrial environment (TRL6). These include a sorting line that is able to efficiently sort post-consumer wood waste, extraction technologies for secondary materials (calibrated wood fines and wood fibres) from the sorted waste fractions, and conversion to valuable products, i.e. various fibreboard and insulation products, particleboard and novel biocomposites. As a major impact, the secondary fibres will substitute up to 25% of the virgin fibres currently used in the manufacture of new fibreboard. The economic viability of the technologies is achieved through a synergistic circular economy approach that exploits multiple valorisation pathways of secondary raw materials. The novel fibreboard recycling technologies are transferrable and exploitable for many other biobased industries. Environmental and social impacts and benefits are integrated into a life cycle perspective.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

Coordinatore

SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 079 782,00
Indirizzo
ALMAS ALLE 8
750 07 Uppsala
Svezia

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Regione
Östra Sverige Östra Mellansverige Uppsala län
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 079 782,50

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