Focus Areas
H2020 - NMBP
Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
H2020 - SC5
Horizon 2020 Challenge 5 "Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials"
H2020 - SPIRE
Sustainable Process Industries and Resource Efficiency
H2020 - CIRC
Circular Economy
LIFE
Environment
Multiplier effect
320+
Partners
SME, RTS, Associations, Larger companies
EU Projects
Plastics Circularity
21
140+
Million €
Total R&D investment
18
Proposals
Industrial symbiosis
+
New
Technologies and processes
Presentations
Conferences and training workshops
30+
+
New
Products and applications
The investment that the EU is making in the circular economy is on such a scale that it’s vital to communicate what that means for the environment, citizens, businesses and cities across the continent
Synergies
The plastics industry is undergoing a profound transformation to achieve a circular economy in Europe.
The efforts are mainly focused on:
The members of the Plastic Circularity Multiplier initiative have organized a joint conference in October 2020 to communicate the contribution of their projects according to these five categories.
1
Design for recycling
2
Collection and sorting
3
Recycled content
4
R&D and investments
5
Monitoring
More collaboration activities will be set up according to the synergies between projects.
The members of the Plastics Circularity Multiplier Initiative have developed a complete database to find the projects with the same needs for each of the following criteria:
Project
Technological challenges
Regulatory challenges
Expected impact
Stakeholder mapping
Materials and technology
Polymer type
Technologies
Input / Output products
Market and Consumers
Sector and target market
Product and application
Value chain
Consumers and citizens
Consumer brands
Innovation Ecosystem
Life cycle perspective
Industrial Symbiosis
Industrial Scale-up
List of projects
CIRC-PACK
Towards circular economy in the plastic packaging value chain
Circular Flooring
New products from waste PVC flooring and safe end-of-life treatment of plasticisers
CREAToR
Collection of raw materials, Removal of flAme reTardants and Reuse of secondary raw materials
DECOAT
Recycling of coated and painted textile and plastic materials
DEMETO
Modular, scalable and high-performance DE-polymerization by MicrowavE TechnolOgy
FiberEUse
Large scale demonstration of new circular economy value-chains based on the reuse of end-of-life fiber reinforced composites
HARMONI
Harmonised assessment of regulatory bottlenecks and standardisation needs for the process industry
iCAREPLAST
Integrated Catalytic Recycling of Plastic Residues Into Added-Value Chemicals
ISOPREP
Ionic Solvent-based Recycling of Polypropylene Products
MultiCycle
Advanced and sustainable recycling processes and value chains for plastic-based multi-materials
NONTOX
Removing hazardous substances to increase recycling rates of the WEEE, ELV and CDW plastics
PlastiCircle
Improvement of the plastic packaging waste chain from a circular economy approach
PolyCE
Post-Consumer High-tech Recycled Polymers for a Circular Economy
polynSPIRE
Demonstration of Innovative Technologies towards a more Efficient and Sustainable Plastic Recycling
PUReSmart
Polyurethane recycling towards a smart circular economy
REACT
REcycling of waste Acrylic Textiles
Remadyl
Removal of legacy substances from polyvinylchloride (PVC) via a continuous and sustainable extrusion process
Repair3D
Recycling and Repurposing of Plastic Waste for Advanced 3D Printing Applications
SMARTFAN
Smart by Design and Intelligent by Architecture for turbine blade fan and structural components systems
TERMINUS
In-built Triggered Enzymes to Recycle Multi-layers: an INnovation for USes in plastic-packaging
Life-Repolyuse
REcovery of POLYurethane for reuse in eco-efficient materials