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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 

LIFE-REPOLYUSE

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

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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

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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