PROSPER
Promoting innovation for sustainable sorting and recycling of dedicated bio-based plastics
Project details
- Type of project
- Innovation Action - Demonstration
- Project focus
- Packaging
- Feedstock origin
- Other and new
- Feedstock type
- Plastic and composites
- Project period
- 1 September 2024 - 31 August 2028
- Status
- In progress
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 7 498 855,25
- Call identifier
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023
Summary
Bio-based plastics offer an eco-friendly alternative to fossil-based ones, with the potential for efficient recycling through chemical depolymerisation. However, sorting them from other packaging materials and recycling is still a challenge.
The PROSPER project addresses this challenge by demonstrating the technically and financially viable sorting and recycling of bio-based plastics in packaging. The project integrates these plastics into current waste management practices and implements policy tools like Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems. PROSPER seeks to boost demand for bio-based plastics by highlighting both their recyclability as well as their sustainable origins.
Additionally, by mobilising stakeholders across the bio-based plastics supply chain, PROSPER works on promoting the sorting and recycling of bioplastics at an industrial scale.
Consortium map
Project coordination
- UNIVERSITEIT GENT GENT, Belgium
Consortium
- NOVAMONT SPA NOVARA, Italy
- DMTR CONSULTING SRL BARI, Italy
- SUEZ PUTEAUX, France
- EUROPEAN BIOECONOMY BUREAU Bruxelles / Brussel, Belgium
- FUNDACIO UNIVERSITARIA BALMES VIC BARCELONA, Spain
- BIO-TEC BIOLOGISCHE NATURVERPACKUNGEN GMBH & CO.KG EMMERICH AM RHEIN, Germany
- FUTERRO Escanaffles, Belgium
- EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE LA INNOVACION Y DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO SA Las Rozas De Madrid, Spain
- A2A SPA Brescia, Italy
- ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA DEL JUGUETE CONEXAS Y AFINES IBI (ALICANTE), Spain
- SUEZ RV FRANCE PARIS LA DEFENSE, France
- STICHTING NATIONAAL TESTCENTRUM CIRCULAIRE PLASTICS Heerenveen, Netherlands
- ENVICO RESEARCH SL TERRASSA, Spain
- PolyPerception ANTWERPEN, Belgium
- A2A AMBIENTE SPA Brescia, Italy
- FCC MEDIO AMBIENTE SAU Madrid, Spain
- PROCTER & GAMBLE SERVICES COMPANY NV STROMBEEK BEVER, Belgium
- STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH Wageningen, Netherlands
Partners
- SREP SA Paris, France
