Project description
Ecosystem digital twin software reducing food packaging pollution
Europe is moving steadily towards a circular economy, more respectful of consumers and ecosystems. The EU-funded MAGNO project aims to improve the sustainability and efficiency of food packaging, promote directions for new policies and increase social innovation. The project will examine plastic packaging value chains and create an ecosystem digital twin to provide innovative and circular business strategies drawing a map of different scenarios ahead. MAGNO will use a multi-actor approach by involving researchers, food business operators, packaging producers, developers, converters, recyclers, consumers and local authorities to prevent and reduce plastic packaging pollution in Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. The project will support decision-making around food packaging, contributing to the European Green Deal and EU 2030 Climate Target Plan objectives.
Objective
As Europe shifts to a bio-based circular economy, a plethora of new packaging restrictions have emerged. MAGNO seeks to improve packaging effectiveness, sustainability, efficient usage, end-of-life (reuse and recycling), and innovative business practices in EU food systems through revolutionary strategies shaped for the ecological transition required by the European Green Deal and EU 2030 climate target plan. These strategies will strengthen the EU food and packaging policy frameworks at a local and regional level. They will also increase social innovation, consumer participation and acceptance of new packaging designs and production models in cross-border food value chains through a web platform and a series of citizen science tools. At the beginning of the project, an overview of Europe’s ecosystems and value chains for different kinds of plastic packaging will be studied. A detailed quantification of impacts and solutions in terms of health, environment, raw materials, and sustainability will then be developed to set the basis of an Ecosystem Digital Twin software. The Digital Twin will be programmed to support the analysis of different scenarios which contributes by not only providing ground-breaking strategies for improving the packaging sector but also identifying the best options in terms of innovative business. The whole project will be supported by the active participation of food multi-actors (researchers, food business operators, food packaging producers, developers of sustainable packaging, packaging converters and recyclers, consumers, and local and regional authorities). Their contribution to the creation of results and validation of the final strategies will prevent and reduce plastic packaging pollution for the food and packaging sectors.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
41300 La Rinconada
Spain