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ICARUS. INCREASING CIRCULARITY IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES BY UPCYCLING SECONDARY RESOURCES

Project description

Greening construction's environmental impact

The construction sector stands as a prime contributor to resource depletion and waste generation. Accounting for half of material extraction and over a third of waste streams, its linear practices strain sustainability efforts. The sector’s circular economy remains nascent, with a mere 12.4 % material use rate in 2021. To address this challenge, the EU-funded ICARUS project emerges, aiming to revolutionise resource utilisation and waste management in construction and related industries. Specifically, it will upcycle waste materials from various industries into sustainable resources for construction, contributing to circular economies. Through innovative technologies and demo cases like upcycling lithium aluminosilicate residue, waste cellulose and steelmaking slags, ICARUS propels circular economy principles forward, promising a breakthrough in sustainable industry practices.

Objective

ICARUS will upcycle waste material resources of most selected process industries (covering minerals, cement, ceramic, non-ferrous metals, steel, water, pulp&paper and chemical ones) to achieve circular and sustainable process industries overcoming their final application in construction sector. This project will accelerate the process industry uptake and contributing towards the developed education and skills activities and outcomes in this area as well as linking all value chain from industrial players recyclers, public authorities, and standardisation actors. ICARUS tackles resources usage in the construction sector (housing and infrastructure), accounting for 50% of the total material extraction, and being responsible for more than 35% of waste streams in the EU. Furthermore, the circular economy in the sector is still at a very early stage, with an estimated level of circularity for the EU of 12.4% material use rate in the year 2021. ICARUS approach aims to give technological support to stakeholders of energy-intensive and construction industries as key players for the transition to a more green and digital processes industries supported by standardization aspects to promote values and a resilient, green and digital Single Market and business models including co-creation and co-design to successful market implementation. ICARUS will represent a breakthrough in the research and demonstration of new technologies to upgrade Secondary Raw Materials ensuring similar quality as primary raw materials, of three waste streams to improve circular economy principles in several intensive industries with its implementation in the construction sector, to improve circular economy principles in P4P process industries. These new technologies will be demonstrated throughout 3 demo cases: 1-Upcycling of Lithium Aluminosilicate Residue;2-Upcycling of SRMs from urban waste cellulose;3-Upcycling of steelmaking slags via Carbon Capture and Storage .

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01

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Coordinator

ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION IBERIA SA
Net EU contribution
€ 1 104 500,00
Address
CALLE MESENA 80
28033 MADRID
Spain
Region
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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