Project description
Accelerating the EU’s green, digital and circular transition
Circular economy strategies are essential to ensure sustainable access to critical raw materials. It is important to reuse, repurpose and recycle materials to reduce waste and make maximum use of raw materials. A circular economy model can also help reduce the depletion of natural resources and the overall environmental effects on climate change. The EU-funded Plooto project will develop a Circular and Resilient Information System (CRIS) to support manufacturers in their green, digital and circular transition. The aim of the CRIS is to enable waste reduction and end-to-end traceability of secondary raw materials, SRMs through interconnected digital services. The system will be tested in three different circular supply chains.
Objective
The constantly increasing demand of scarce resources and critical raw materials (CRMs), requires efficient usage of resources - reuse and recycling of materials- and responsible waste management and prevention. The circular economy’s model establishes a virtuous cycle where products and resources can be reused, repurposed and recycled to maximize productivity of resources, to reduce waste and by products that can become raw materials (RMs) entering in other industrial processes, thus reducing the depletion of natural resources and the overall environmental effects on climate change.
Plooto aims to deliver a Circular and Resilient Information System (CRIS) to support manufacturers in their green, digital and circular transition. CRIS enables waste reduction and end-to-end traceability of Secondary Raw Materials (SRM) through interconnected digital services for real-time decision making, monitoring and certification of materials and products.
Plooto delivers: a) a transformation framework based on traceability strategies for materials/products per business case, with reference processes for SRM use from waste deposit to new products, and governance models for circular value chains; b) ICT tools for modelling product, production processes and supply chains, as an aggregation of individual component Digital Twins with cognition capabilities (cognitive Digital Twins – CDTs); c) Data will feed RM-recovery and waste dataspaces allowing the provision of material certification and product passport; and d) A circular sustainability balanced scorecard (framework+toolkit) to assess impact of decision-making at CDT level based on various KPIs.
The solution will be piloted in three different circular supply chains demonstrating waste reduction, reusability of scrap and production by-products, operational improvement.
Fields of science
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- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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47822 Santarcangelo Di Romagna
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731 00 Chania
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11251 Athens
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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20127 Milano
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0313 Oslo
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38106 Braunschweig
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1000 Ljubljana
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500057 BRASOV
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111 41 ATTIKIS
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72100 Cittadella Della Ricerca Brindisi
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1082 Nicosia
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21200 ARGOS
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08875 Castellbisbal
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28049 Madrid
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08291 RIPOLLET
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63100 Ascoli Piceno
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72100 Brindisi
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1066 Nicosia
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15343 Athens
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EN5 5RN London
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