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Advanced and sustainable recycling processes and value chains for plastic-based multi-materials

Descrizione del progetto

Una seconda vita per le plastiche complesse

Le materie plastiche ci permettono di creare un’ampia gamma di prodotti per molteplici applicazioni, offrendo bassi costi di produzione, durata del prodotto e flessibilità. Purtroppo, la plastica è difficile da riciclare e abbandona il 69 % delle confezioni monouso in discarica e nell’inceneritore, inquinando l’ambiente. Il progetto MultiCycle, finanziato dall’UE, mirava a introdurre un processo di riciclaggio avanzato e sostenibile e catene di valore per i multimateriali a base di plastica. Il progetto ha sottoposto a test sistemi di monitoraggio per l’identificazione dei materiali, un impianto pilota di riciclaggio industriale per imballaggi multistrato a base fossile o biologica e compositi termoplastici rinforzati con fibre provenienti dal settore automobilistico. L’impianto si basava su un innovativo processo di estrazione selettiva a base di solventi per recuperare plastiche e additivi puri da rifiuti misti. I riciclati sono stati rilavorati in nuovi prodotti a valore aggiunto.

Obiettivo

Plastics bring unprecedented value in terms of convenience, versatility of design and lightweight to European consumers as well as increasingly advanced performances even in high end applications. But only 31% of plastic packaging are currently recycled due to infra-developed technologies or to their unsatisfactory economic viability. This is in fact aggravated by considering plastics as commodity where their economic value is linked to a single use, often not taking into account the potentially generated end of life hurdles. In line with the just released Plastic Strategy for Europe, the time has come to stop the depletion, landfilling and incineration and shift to a Circular Model in the plastic sector improving the recycling rate but also the value of secondary raw materials from plastic recycling.
As such, with an overarching mission to maximise the valorisation of our finite plastic resources, based on the CreaSolv® process (CreaSolv® is a registered trademark of CreaCycle GmbH) patented by the partner FRAUNHOFER, which will be upscaled and digitased, MultiCycle will deliver an industrial recycling pilot plant for thermoplastic-based multi-materials. This is a solvent based selective extraction process which allows recovering pure plastics in mixed wastes but also fibres without downgrading. The later compounding of recovered materials will also be optimised in terms of process and formulation. Our economically and environmentally sustainable MultiCycle process will be demonstrated in 2 main large volume sectors (as providers of waste to recycle and end users of the recycled materials):
-Multilayer packaging but also flexible films that cannot be recycled cost effectively to date and altogether account for around 50% of plastic packaging, i.e. ca. 10 millions tons/year in EU.
-Fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites for the automotive sector from which plastics constitute around 16% of End-of-Life Vehicles weigth, i.e. ca. 1 million tons/year in EU.

Invito a presentare proposte

H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2018-2020

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Bando secondario

H2020-NMBP-SPIRE-2018

Meccanismo di finanziamento

IA - Innovation action

Coordinatore

IRIS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 773 718,71
Indirizzo
CARRETERA D ESPLUGUES 39 41
08940 CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT
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Regione
Este Cataluña Barcelona
Tipo di attività
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 105 312,44

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