Descrizione del progetto
Trasformare i rifiuti plastici in nuovi polimeri
La politica di gestione dei rifiuti in Europa si è evoluta negli ultimi 30 anni, passando dallo scartare i rifiuti come onere indesiderato a considerarli come una risorsa preziosa. Oggi i rifiuti di plastica sono considerati un flusso di rifiuti prioritari e il progetto BioICEP, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di ridurne l’onere. Il progetto, che costituirà una collaborazione Europa-Cina, svilupperà una soluzione per gli ambienti con inquinamento misto da plastica. In particolare, i ricercatori lavoreranno su tre tecnologie innovative volte ad aumentare il degrado della plastica a livelli record. BioICEP adotterà un approccio basato su sistemi di depolimerizzazione a tripla azione per abbattere i rifiuti plastici: processi di disintegrazione meccano-biochimica, digestione biocatalitica e consorzi microbici. Gli esiti saranno utilizzati come elementi costitutivi di nuovi polimeri o altri bioprodotti.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
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H2020-NMBP-BIO-CN-2019
Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
V94 EC5T Limerick
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