TAGS: Biobased Solutions
AIMPLAS has announced that it is participating in the WaysTUP! project, funded by Horizon 2020. The project aims to turn urban biowaste into resources such as food additives, condiments, insect protein, bioethanol, biosolvents and bioplastics.
Awareness to Collect Biowaste for Recovery
The WaysTUP! project will develop and implement an approach involving a behavioral change in citizens and local communities. By improving their perceptions of urban biowaste as a local resource, the goal is to promote active citizen participation in separate collection of urban biowaste for recovery.
New profitable manufacturing business models will be developed to prepare the resulting technological solutions and end products for market entry. The project will also advise city managers on how to adopt new organizational models that support the use of urban biowaste, as well as evidence-based EU-level policy recommendations for decision-makers.
AIMPLAS’s role in the project will consist of producing packaging from PHA from coffee and oil waste. PHA will first be formulated so it can be extruded, the sheet will be manufactured, and the packaging will then be thermoformed.
Source: AIMPLAS