Removing hazardous substances to increase recycling rates of WEEE, ELV and CDW plastics

Project Information

NONTOX

Grant agreement ID: 820895

DOI 10.3030/820895

Project closed

EC signature date 3 May 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 30 November 2022

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 4 998 076,25

EU contribution € 4 998 076,25

Coordinated by

TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY
Finland

Deliverables

Documents, reports (12)

Report on enhancing actions to reach a circular plastic economy

Suggestions on actions for cicularity targets will be presented Practical solutions will be highlighted

Results of social LCA

Findings from the social life cycle analyses will be drafted in a report

Procedure for safe working

A report on the procedure for safe working with contaminated materials.

Market survey and competitor analysis

The analyses will be based on existing and public available data

The life cycle impact assessment results

Results from the LCIA will be presented in a public report

A set of indicators for an easier identification of impacts of recycling and circularity

The report will define the selection criteria for indicators chosen for identifying impacts of recycling

The inventory table of the environmental LCA

The goal and scope definition of LCA will be formulated in a public report

Review on operational environment

A public report will be prepared on the current regulatory and standardisation state of art

Public summary of the final TEA

The report will be an executive summary of the final TechnoEconomic Assessment

Publishable reports on plastics recycling, featuring recycling with legacy additives from C&DW, ELV, WEEE; testing of plastic materials, including scrap & recyclate.

The report will present an state of the art Report on plastics recycling methods,g, practices with plastic recycling with legacy additives and standard methods of testing of plastic materials, including scrap & recyclate.

Digital review on eco-design (in the context of NONTOX project)

A report on the ecodesign for recyclability will be presented

Mapping of Feedstock

Different streams of plastic waste type will be mapped in a report

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

The data management methods, especially to describe how the data will be generated, processed, collected, stored and documented

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Compatibilized PC/ABS blends from solvent recycled PC and ABS polymers from electronic equipment waste

Author(s): Pelto Jani, Barreto Carlos, Anwar Hany, Strobl Laura, Schlummer Martin
Published in: Polymer Testing, Issue Volume 12, 2023, Page(s) art.no 107969, ISSN 0142-9418
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2023.107969

About the environmental sustainability of the European management of WEEE plastics

Author(s): Cardamone Giovanni Francesco, Ardolino Filomena, Arena Umberto
Published in: Waste Management, Issue Volume 135, 2021, Page(s) 119 - 132, ISSN 0956-053X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.02.040

Mechanochemical dehalogenation of brominated flame retardants and preliminary application for recycling BFR-containing plastic waste

Author(s): Shengyong Lu, Xuanhao Guo, Hao He, Yaqi Peng, Jiamin Ding, Jinjian Ding, Huiping Zhu, Qureshi Muhammad, Ilkka Rytöluoto, Anna Tenhunen
Published in: Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2023, ISSN 2213-3437
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2023.109916

Technical and environmental performances of alternative treatments for challenging plastics waste

Author(s): Arena Umberto, Ardolino Filomena
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue Volume 183, 2022, Page(s) Article number 106379, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106379

Can plastics from end-of-life vehicles be managed in a sustainable way?

Author(s): Cardamone Giovanni Francesco, Ardolino Filomena, Arena Umberto
Published in: Sustainable Production and Consumption, Issue Volume 29, 2022, Page(s) 115-127, ISSN 2352-5509
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2021.09.025

How to enhance the environmental sustainability of WEEE plastics management: An LCA study

Author(s): Ardolino Filomena, Cardamone Giovanni Francesco, Arena Umberto
Published in: Waste Management, Issue Volume 128, 2021, Page(s) 347 - 359, ISSN 0956-053X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2021.09.021

Social life cycle assessmemt of innovative management schems for challenging plastics waste

Author(s): Ardolino Filomena, Palladini Anna Rita, Arena Umberto
Published in: Sustainable Production and Consumption, Issue Volume 37, 2023, Page(s) 344-355, ISSN 2352-5509
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2023.03.011

Conference proceedings (2)

Active Hyperspectral Sensor for Mineralogy Mapping and Plastic Waste Sorting

Author(s): Francisco Senna Vieira, Mikhail Mekhrengin, Teemu Kääriäinen, Ilkka Rytöluoto, Timo Dönsberg, Guillaume Genoud
Published in: 20th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 2021
Publisher: China Council of Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Raman spectroscopy combined with active hyperspectral sensing for classification of waste plastics containing brominated flame retardants: a sensor fusion approach

Author(s): Sormunen, Tuomas and Rytöluoto, Ilkka and Tenhunen-Lunkka, Anna and Senna Vieira, Francisco
Published in: Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research 2022, 2022
Publisher: SSRN
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4264557

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Analysis of innovative recycling processes for challenging waste plastics in a Life Cycle Perspective

Author(s): Giovanni Francesco Cardamone
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Università di Vanvitelli

Analysis of brominated flame retardants in plastics by infrared reflectance spectroscopy

Author(s): Chen Lingyi
Published in: 2021
Publisher: AALTO

Fuels from plastic waste

Author(s): Carmine Boccia
Published in: 2023
Publisher: "Università degli Studi della Campania ""Luigi Vanvitelli"""