- Start: 01/04/2022
- End: 31/03/2026
As addressed by the European Plastics Strategy, new methods to reliably calculate, verify and report the recycled content in products need to be developed, boosting the increase of recycled content in everyday products.
PRecycling aims to develop an easy-to-use methodology for sorting, sampling, tracing and recycling plastic waste streams, including detection and separation of legacy additives, along with standard analysis procedures for both plastic waste materials and recyclates, in order to produce consistently high quality, safe-to-use recyclates based on their degradation degree and added-value products with predicted lifetime.
Smart tracing via digital systems will be developed in parallel, to ensure the quality and safety of reused materials, targeting a sustainable, transparent and functional Circular Economy Model for the recycling market. The environmental and financial viability of PRecycling solutions will be assessed throughout life cycle and cost analysis, in order to reach competitive prices of recycled products.
The above will be demonstrated, producing (I) home appliances components, (II) toys/learning resources, and (III) 100% recycled textile. Demonstration activities will serve as part of a community awareness initiative, showing that "from waste to product" transformation is scalable, replicable, traceable, commercially viable and most importantly, safe to use, both within the same and new supply chain products.
- Sectors: Appliance, Textile, Toy industry
- Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
- R&D&i: Integrated monitoring and control systems, Life cycle assessment. Carbon footprint., waste treatment and valorisation
- Leader: National Technical University Of Athens
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, Arcelik AS, IRES - Innovation in Research and Engineering Solutions, BIOG3D MONOPROSOPI IKE, NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU, STRATAGEM ENERGY LTD, FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV, CIRCULARISE BV, DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET-DTU, BASF SE, CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE & TECHNIQUE DEL'INDUSTRIE TEXTILE BELGE ASBL, ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA DEL JUGUETE CONEXAS Y AFINES-AIJU, COOLREC BV, ANONYMI ETAIREIA VIOMICHANIKIS EREVNAS, TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS KAI ERGASTIRIAKON DOKIMON, PISTOPIISIS KAI PIOTITAS, EUROPEAN PLASTICS CONVERTERS, POLYMER COMPLY EUROPE scrl, PERIFEREIA ATTIKIS
- Acronym: PRECYCLING
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.precycling-project.eu/
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