{"id":93994,"date":"2021-08-19T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=93994"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:27:37","slug":"european-project-to-recover-contaminated-plastics-from-automotive-construction-and-electrical-appliance-industry-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/european-project-to-recover-contaminated-plastics-from-automotive-construction-and-electrical-appliance-industry-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"European project to recover contaminated plastics from automotive, construction and electrical appliance industry waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>Increasing plastic recycling rates is key to creating the circular economy of plastics promoted by the European Union. It is therefore essential for research to continue developing new recycling processes, including procedures to\u00a0recover plastic wastecontaining hazardous substances and then use it to produce safe, high-quality plastic products.  <strong>The European\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/nontox-project.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">NONTOX Project<\/a>\u00a0aims to eliminate\u00a0hazardous\u00a0and\u00a0unpleasant substances\u00a0from plastic waste and thus convert\u00a0non-recyclable plastics\u00a0and recycling waste into new\u00a0resources. <\/strong>AIMPLAS is participating in the project.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research developed by the different project partners will focus on the recovery of plastic materials from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), end-of-life vehicles (ELV), and construction and demolition waste (CDW), all of which contain\u00a0hazardous additives\u00a0and\u00a0unpleasant compounds\u00a0such as flame retardants, stabilizers and filling materials. Two different technologies will be used (Extruclean and CreaSolv\u00ae) to eliminate these hazardous substances from waste plastics such as ABS, EPS, PS, HIPS, PE and PP, which jointly account for about half of EU demand for plastics, hence the importance of recycling plastics rather than continuing the current practice of landfilling or incinerating a significant part of this waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The consortium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NONTOX Project, funded through the European Union\u2019s research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, grant agreement 820895, is coordinated by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The other consortium members are AIMPLAS, Fraunhofer, Universit\u00e0 degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Treee, Fundaci\u00f3n IMDEA Energ\u00eda, Stena Recycling International AB, Galea Polymers, ECODOM \u2013 Consorzio Italiano per il Recupero e Riciclaggio Elettrodomestici, Norner Research AS, Aalto University and Coolrec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing plastic recycling rates is key to creating the circular economy of plastics promoted by the European Union. It is therefore essential for research to continue developing new recycling processes, including procedures to\u00a0recover plastic wastecontaining hazardous substances and then use it to produce safe, high-quality plastic products. The European\u00a0NONTOX Project\u00a0aims to eliminate\u00a0hazardous\u00a0and\u00a0unpleasant substances\u00a0from plastic waste [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The European NONTOX Project aims to eliminate hazardous and unpleasant substances from plastic waste and thus convert non-recyclable plastics and recycling waste into new resources.","footnotes":""},"categories":[17143],"tags":[10416,18878,14318,16964,15238],"supplier":[3096,11215,18929,18927,5585,18926,15884,18928,18925,18923,18922],"class_list":["post-93994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recycling","tag-circulareconomy","tag-euprojects","tag-recover","tag-recycledplastic","tag-wasteplastic","supplier-aalto-university","supplier-aimplas-asociacion-de-investigacion-de-materiales-plasticos-y-conexas","supplier-coolrec","supplier-ecodom-consorzio-italiano-per-il-recupero-e-riciclaggio-elettrodomestici","supplier-european-union","supplier-galea-polymers","supplier-imdea-energy","supplier-norner-research-as","supplier-stena-recycling-international-ab","supplier-treee","supplier-universita-degli-studi-della-campania-luigi-vanvitelli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93994"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=93994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}