Descripción del proyecto
Transformar los residuos de plástico en polímeros nuevos
La política de gestión de residuos de Europa ha evolucionado durante los últimos tres decenios y ha pasado de desechar los residuos como carga indeseable a considerarlos un recurso valioso. Hoy en día, los residuos plásticos son un flujo de residuos prioritario. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos BioICEP se propone reducir la carga de residuos plásticos. El proyecto establecerá una colaboración sinoeuropea para desarrollar una propuesta adecuada para entornos con contaminación de distintos plásticos. En concreto, sus investigadores trabajarán en tres tecnologías potenciadoras e innovadoras con las que aumentar la degradación de plásticos a niveles sin precedentes. Para descomponer residuos de plástico, BioICEP adoptará sistemas de despolimerización en tres fases: procesos de desintegración mecánico-bioquímicos, digestión biocatalítica y consorcios microbianos. Los residuos resultantes servirán de componentes fundamentales para la creación de polímeros nuevos u otros bioproductos.
Objetivo
The Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP) is a pan European-Chinese collaboration formed to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment. Different mixed plastic pollution environments are represented, with specific partners selected which have the expertise and facilities to carry out the necessary technical innovations. A number of innovative booster technologies are at the core of this solution accentuating, expediting, and augmenting mixed plastics degradation to levels far in excess of those current achievable. Our approach is The Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP) consortium is a pan European-Chinese collaborative formed to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment. The countries have been selected to represent different mixed plastic pollution environments, with specific partners selected which have the expertise and facilities to carry out the necessary technical innovations. Three innovative booster technologies are at the core of this solution accentuating, expediting, and augmenting plastics degradation to levels far in excess of those current achievable. Our approach is a triple-action depolymerisation system where plastic waste will be broken down in three consecutive processes: 1) mechano-biochemical disintegration processes, including a new proprietary sonic-green-chemical technology to reduce the polymer molecular weight of the base polymer to make it amenable to biodegradation; 2) biocatalytic digestion, with enzymes enhanced through a range of innovative techniques including accelerated screening through novel fluorescent sensor and directed evolution; and 3) microbial consortia developed from best in class single microbial strains, which combined leads to highly efficient degradation of mixed plastic waste streams. The outputs from this degradation process will be used as building blocks for new polymers or other bioproducts to enable a new plastic waste-based circular economy.
Ámbito científico
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterials
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-NMBP-BIO-CN-2019
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
V94 EC5T Limerick
Irlanda