Lead partner GATE2GROWTH
Work package leader Carmen Bianca Socaciu
Contact details cs@gate2growth.com
Objectives
Establish sustainable strategies for bio-based plastics for both land and sea applications in order to reduce their impact on the environment while being competitive. This will be achieved through:
- A business model-driven methodology to be applied during the project and drive developments of the bio-based materials, EoL solutions, and demonstrations.
- The design of eight innovative business models to be tested within the project framework for improved EoL management of used plastics.
- Defining the specifications for eight demonstrators produced from bio-based plastics with specific functionalities, and EoL solutions.
Lead partner CEA
Work package leader Gatien Fleury
Contact details gatien.fleury@cea.fr
Objectives
Develop new bio-based plastics from i) naturally occurring polymers (PHAs) from aquatic and organic biomass, and ii) renewable agricultural feedstocks (PLA based materials) with no competition with food chain. The specific objectives of this WP are the following:
- Upscale new development, separation and extraction methods to produce the biomass.
- Process this biomass into bio-based plastics answering to the specifications defined in WP1.
- Characterize the produced materials to ensure their proper level of quality and proposed EoL.
Lead partner IPC
Work package leader Valentin Thoury
Contact details valentin.thoury@ct-ipc.com
Objectives
Based on preliminary results obtained in WP2, most promising bio-based plastic formulations will be optimized. WP3 aims to develop formulations having specific advanced properties (defined in WP1) while being either biodegradable, reusable or recyclable. The specific objectives are the following:
- The implementation of advanced compounding strategies and processes, to develop high performance and cost-efficient bio-based plastic formulations capable of fulfilling requirements of selected end use cases.
- The development of high barrier multilayer single material films (for packaging) to enable their recycling and substitute today’s non-recyclable and non-biodegradable commercial packaging.
Lead partner URBASER
Work package leader Cristina García Vera de lope
Contact details cgvera@urbaser.com
Objectives
The goal of this WP is to build up the most suitable scenarios for the EoL of the demonstration cases. In the individual use cases one or more scenarios can be envisaged:
- Where possible, the mechanical recycling must be considered as a preferred treatment in terms of the circular economy. Highly efficient material identification and sorting is the crucial prerequisite of this efficient recycling.
- Some of the use cases (fish crate, fishing net, oyster meshbag, food packaging) tent, more than others, to be left in the environment; biodegradation of the material must be assured in the given environment as the EoL process. Therefore, biodegradation should be optimised.
- For the mulching film, the material will naturally be pooled with other organic wastes, here organic composting will be tested as the most efficient EoL solution.
- For several use cases (rigid and flexible food packaging), more than one EoL solution can be considered and tested, e.g. the item can be first subjected to the mechanical recycling and after several cycles the material can be found unsuitable and directed for the organic composting.
- The design of bio-based products with digital functions (RFID) compatible with innovative business models developed in WP1. It will be particularly useful for reusable products such as fish crates. The assessment of the environmental performance and cost-efficiency of the eight demonstrators and evaluate their impact on the environment.
Lead partner POLIGAL
Work package leader Ibon Odriozola
Contact details ibon.odriozola@poligal.com
Objectives
- Based on the designs defined in WP1, the materials developed in WP2, the processes optimized in WP3 and the EoL improved in WP4, 8 high-impact demonstrators will be produced: one for rigid food packaging, one for single use plastic cutlery, two for flexible food packaging, mulching film, fish crate, fishing net and oyster mesh bags.
- Test the main functions of each demonstrator by each end-user to validate the product (with the retails, packaging fresh food and analysing the shelf-life.).
- Perform field testing of the marine and land applications with final consumers using the product daily in order to validate the social acceptance and collect the feedbacks from the final end-users.
Lead partner IEEP
Work package leader Andrew Farmer
Contact details afarmer@ieep.eu
Objectives
- To gather relevant information on barriers and opportunities of bio-based plastics and their characteristics from the relevant stakeholders.
- To propose policy recommendations that support the development and the uptake of the new materials and that are needed to unfold the full potential of bio-based plastics in the context of the existing policy framework covering the different steps of the industrial value and applied to the most relevant EU policies, in addition to the EU Plastics Strategy.
- To propose policy recommendations that support the development and uptake of the new materials at the global level.
Lead partner ASI
Work package leader Dagmar Schermann
Contact details d.schermann@austrian-standards.at
Objectives
Carry out a detailed analysis of the current standards in order to identify the shortcomings and propose new ones to validate the developed demonstrators in WP4. In the analysis the following points will be taken:
- To analyse current biodegradation and ecotoxicity standards to identify the gaps and technical limitations in current biodegradation procedures.
- To perform pre-normative studies to address these gaps:
- Assessing the real service life in the outdoor environment, which is influenced mainly by the material degradation (photo, chemical, bio), in controlled laboratory experiments.
- Assessing the biodegradability at the End of Life according to international standards but also considering the molecular of the material due to ageing (degradation) during its service life and product design (shape, thickness).
- Implementing sequential pre-exposure (photo/dry/freshwater/saltwater) to validate the methods of the biodegradation testing for materials exposed to the environmental factors.
- To elaborate a new standardization work item proposals (NWIPs) with the results of the pre-normative studies to revise the current standards and thus facilitate the acceptance and utilisation by the market of the new biodegradable solutions.
Lead partner ERINN Innovation
Work package leader Annette Wilson
Contact details annette@erinn.eu
Objectives
Maximise the chances of taking up the project results by designing and implementing targeted communication, dissemination and exploitation activities. Specifically:
- To develop and implement an effective dissemination and communication strategy for the project that can raise awareness of the project, its activities and results to major stakeholder groups.
- To ensure efficient data and knowledge management, facilitating open access to appropriate results. Put in place suitable IP management strategies and processes.
- To maximize post-project uptake by developing thorough and forward-thinking plans that clearly outline the potential end-users of the project. Optimise exploitation activities through carrying out knowledge transfer activities to ensure objective and measurable short and long-term project impacts.
Lead partner ITENE
Work package leader Miriam Gallur and Marian Garcia
Contact details miriam.gallur@itene.com | marian.garcia@itene.com
Objectives
To develop an effective and comprehensive technical, administrative and financial management to ensure the successful execution of the SEALIVE project and the achievements of its objectives. Specific objectives will be:
- To ensure the achievement of all project’s objectives on time, quality and costs.
- To manage and coordinate smoothly and efficiently the SEALIVE partners, ensuring the achievement of the specific objectives from each of the WPs.
- To communicate a high-quality project reporting to the EC.
Lead partner ITENE
Work package leader Miriam Gallur and Marian Garcia
Contact details miriam.gallur@itene.com | marian.garcia@itene.com
Objectives
Ensure compliance with the ethics requirements.