Project description
Blockchain for a sustainable textile industry
The textile industry is widely criticised for the impact it has on the environment. It has become a major driver of climate change and needs a circular makeover. However, the adoption of sustainable and circular approaches in all business sectors such as fashion hinges on the availability of product data. Traceability relies on the access to reliable data. In this context, the EU-funded TRICK project will provide a platform that will enable enterprises to collect product data. For instance, data extracted by the fiscal documents for the preferential certification of origin will be integrated with the bill of materials, saved in the Blockchains per each lot of production. TRICK will run pilot demonstrations in the textile-clothing industry and the perishable food industry for replication.
Objective
In EU a garment is worn an average of 3 times in its life, with €400 Bln lost a year discarding clothes which can still be worn and 92 Mln tons of waste, 87% of clothes ending up in landfills. But due to growing awareness on ethical and environmental impacts, 66% of consumers are ready to pay more for sustainable products . TRICK will provide a complete, SME affordable and standardised platform to support the adoption of sustainable and circular approaches: it will enable enterprises to collect product data and to access to the necessary services on a dedicated marketplace, open to third party solutions. TRICK demo will be run in 2 highly complex and polluting domains: textile-clothing as main pilot and perishable food for replication. EC estimates that up to 10% of the 88 million tons of food waste generated annually in the EU are linked to date marking, with associated costs estimated at €143 billion. Secured traceability will rely on the data needed for the preferential certification of origin (PCO), used for duty calculation. It will be certified by Customs as member of the consortium, representing anti fraud public forces. The data extracted by the fiscal documents for the PCO will be integrated with the bill of materials, saved in the Blockchains (BC) per each lot of production to grant traceability continuity, and with the additional ones to enable the six services provided by TRICK: traceability, circular assessment, PEF, health and social assessment, A.I. for anti counterfeting. BC will secure information through the whole process, ending to consumers for informed purchasing. Data confidentiality and privacy will be granted by the exploitation of Blockchains smart contracts while the adoption of different technologies will be solved by the development of Blockchain interoperability connectors between the two BC providers. End users will cover the whole TC value chain, from raw materials to recycling.
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Call for proposal
H2020-LOW-CARBON-CIRCULAR-INDUSTRIES-2020
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H2020-LCCI-2020-EASME-twostage
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
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13856 Vigliano Biellese
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20821 Meda (Mb)
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49527 Petach Tikva
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6850 Mendrisio
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48930 Getxo
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13900 Biella
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20145 Milano
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08034 Barcelona
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00196 Roma
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73770 Denkendorf
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2830 Raufoss
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00185 Roma
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28359 Bremen
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20133 Milano
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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10999 Berlin
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13900 Biella
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700415 Iasi
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00153 Roma
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21410 Cojata
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20065 Honaz - Denizli
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08210 BARBERA DEL VALLES
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607630 TARGU TROTUS
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21015 LONATE POZZOLO VA
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20122 Milano
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460 01 Liberec
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20139 Milano Mi
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95128 Catania
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56127 Pisa
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11632 Athina
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3271BZ Mijnsheerenland
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20122 Milano
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37121 Verona
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20871 VIMERCATE MB
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