Objective The European consumption of plastics increased from 24,6 Mtons in 1993 to 39,7 Mtons in 2003 and its growth rate exceeds that of the economy as a whole. At the same time, polymer recyclers and manufacturing industries have a problem buying feed materials and secondary polymers of sufficient volume and quality, as a result of the pull of China and India on all raw material resources. The alternative of using more primary plastics has a range of environmental impacts and needs more resources (about two kg oil for one kg plastic). The polymer resources in complex wastes, such as WEEE, household waste and ASR (ACEA: 7.5 million tons of shredder residue in the EU17 in 2002), are largely unused, because of the problem to produce high-purity products from such sources at acceptable costs. Today just one million out of 14 million ton polyolefin’s yearly sold in Europe is being recycled. W2Plastics aims to develop cost-effective and clean technology based on Magnetic Density Separation (MDS) and Ultrasound process control to recover high-purity polyolefin’s from complex wastes. A substantial effort is spent on making the new technologies fit in between the state-of-the-art technology of waste processors and the demands of the compounding and manufacturing industries by defining standards and best practices as well as effective quality-control tools (hyperspectral imaging). The integrated set of technologies and standards aims at changing the status of complex wastes to a resource of high-purity polyolefin’s for a wide range of industries. The development of such technology is in line with the European legislation (COM/2001/0031, 99/31/EC, 2000/53/EC, 2002/96/EC, 2003/108/EC) aiming at fostering the development environmental friendly technologies to reduce the environmental impact of human activities, to protect the environment, to minimize depletion of resources and to promote at the same time) business opportunities and improved competitiveness of European industry and SMEs Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencesengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesacousticsultrasound Keywords Environment GHG emission LCA Recycling Resourse Depletion SME Competitiveness Programme(s) FP7-ENVIRONMENT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) Topic(s) ENV.2007.3.1.3.2. - New technologies for waste sorting Call for proposal FP7-ENV-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Address Stevinweg 1 2628 CN Delft Netherlands See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Delft en Westland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maarten De Groot (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 741 237,00 Participants (13) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA Italy EU contribution € 194 090,00 Address Piazzale aldo moro 5 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Silvia Serranti (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 195 840,00 Address Anker engelunds vej 101 2800 Kongens lyngby See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Københavns omegn Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Hanne Lindholm (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV Romania EU contribution € 111 590,00 Address Bdul eroilor 29 500036 Brasov See on map Region Macroregiunea Unu Centru Braşov Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Liana Sanda Baltes (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION Spain EU contribution € 198 590,00 Address Calle jordi girona 31 08034 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Merce Calvet (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM Hungary EU contribution € 151 840,00 Address Muegyetem rakpart 3 1111 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mária Csiki (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window AKG POLYMERS B.V. Participation ended Netherlands EU contribution € 162 183,00 Address Kalkwijk 5 7681DV Vroomshoop See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Rob Groeneveld (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window BAKKER MAGNETICS BV Participation ended Netherlands EU contribution € 22 069,00 Address Science park eindhoven 5502 5692 EL Son See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jacco Wiersma (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window RECYCLING AVENUE BV Netherlands EU contribution € 200 210,00 Address Rotterdamseweg 145 2628 AL Delft See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Otto Norbert Fraunholcz (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ALCUFER IPARI KERESKEDELMI ES SZOLGALTATO KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG Hungary EU contribution € 190 018,00 Address Meszaros lorinc utca 13 9023 Gyor See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jenőné Rigó (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window S.C. 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Romania EU contribution € 64 910,00 Address Str carol i 30 bl d6 parter 240174 Ramnicu valcea jud valcea See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Nicolae Daniel Ceausescu (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window OLDELFT BV Netherlands EU contribution € 163 910,00 Address Rontgenweg 1 2624 BD Delft See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ruud ‘t Hoen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window DV SRL Italy EU contribution € 180 660,00 Address Viale dell industria 64 35129 Padova See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alberto Dall'ava (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window REDOX WASTE RECYCLING BV Netherlands EU contribution € 184 625,00 Address Stevinstraat 11 7102 DZ Winterswijk See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Klaas Hofstra Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
