Two new projects funded by Horizon Europe through the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking, MoeBIOS and ReBioCycle, have been recently approved, and European Bioplastics is proud to be on board! Both projects were set up to respond to the challenges of the call on “Recycling bio-based plastics increasing sorting and recycled content (upcycling)” (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-04 ). Several members of EUBP are also involved in them as a partner. Congratulations to Novamont, TotalEnergies Corbion, AIMPLAS and to us, European Bioplastics, for these successful initiatives. European Bioplastics will be mostly involved in the dissemination of results and bringing the inputs of the projects to the attention of EU policymakers. Both projects will start around summer 2024 and run for 48 months.
Improving waste management of biobased plastics and the upcycling in packaging, textile and agriculture sectors (MoeBIOS)
MoeBIOS is led by ITENE (ES) and counts 21 partners. MoeBIOS will develop three value chains incorporating separate recycling streams for bioplastics to improve waste management efficiency throughout Europe. The project will create linkages at the different key stages of the whole chain of waste management, from the collection of the bioplastic waste (simulated streams), up to the upcycling and validation of the final recycled end-products (holistic and coordinated solution). The newly created value chain will imply sorting, conditioning, and valorising three types of waste streams from the packaging, agriculture and textile industries into three end-products, targeting to reach at least the same quality and functionality a