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Magnetic Sorting and Ultrasound Sensor Technologies for Production of High Purity Secondary Polyolefins from Waste (W2Plastics)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The European consumption of plastics increased from 24,6 Mtons in 1993 to 39,7 Mtons in 2003 and its growth rate exceeds that of the economy as a whole. At the same time, polymer recyclers and manufacturing industries have a problem buying feed materials and secondary polymers of sufficient volume and quality, as a result of the pull of China and India on all raw material resources. The alternativ ...
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Green Electronics – Sustainable Product Manufacturing (GREENELEC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 1, 2014,

The main goal of GreenElec is to achieve more efficient use of resources by designing and manufacturing electronics that enable more effective recycling. A large fraction of critical materials is used in electronics. Recovery is at present limited: most of the materials are downgraded or completely lost. Effective recovery of materials implies that end-of-life separation and treatment must already ...
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Aim to realise 95% ELV-recycling in the Netherlands by means of post shredder technology (PST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Sep 1, 2015,

Background Every year in Europe, some 15 million cars reach the end of their lives and become end-of-life vehicles (ELVs). After dismantling of the vehicle into parts and shredding, what is left is known as the automotive shredder residue (ASR). With some 200 kg of ASR per ELV, this roughly equates to 3 million tonnes/yr of waste in Europe that is mostly ...
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Project to demonstrate an innovative ICT platform as support tool to implement Community Policy for the sustainable management of e-waste (WEEE-NET)

Start date: Jan 2, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2012,

Background Manufacturing and use of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) is one of the fastest growing areas of economic activity in Europe. It is one of the most important industrial sectors regarding commerce and employment in the Spanish Basque Country. However, this creates important challenges, since the waste coming from this sector is also gro ...
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Advanced Recycling Implementations to Elide Landfilling (ARIEL)

Start date: Jan 7, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

Background Ever-increasing waste production and the increasingly hazardous nature of many waste streams pose ever greater waste management challenges. As part of the EU response, the European Commission's thematic strategy on waste prevention and recycling aims to promote more sustainable patterns of resource use. It advocates the following hierarchy of w ...
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Novel Identification Technology for High-value Plastics Waste Stream (POLYMARK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The POLYMARK consortium represent the SME communities of Polymer Recyclers. The EU polymer recycling sector forms a vital part of the polymer sector and has an estimated annual turnover of €2,500 million generated by over 1,000 SMEs. However, our members have a major problem. Within the EU legislation exists (EC/282/2008) that states that plastic containers that have been used in a non-food applic ...
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Development of processes and quality procedures for the valorisation of recycled plastics for food contact applications (SUPERCLEANQ)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The goals of the SuperCleanQ project are to develop quality control and quality assurance tools and procedures for plastics recycling processes targeted at food contact applications to enable SMEs to conform to Commission Regulation EC 282/2008 on recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods. Thetools will be applied to a new process for the recycling of coloure ...
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