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On May 11, at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam, Renewi’s subsidiary Coolrec and the largest manufacturer of home appliances in the world, Electrolux, both participants in the plast2bcleaned project, won first prize for the introduction of a refrigerator whose interior is made from 70% recycled plastics from old refrigerators.

The Plastics Recycling Awards Europe (PRSE) commemorate, and honor accomplishments made across the board in the European plastic recycling sector. In addition, the awards provide information on recent advances, use of recyclable materials, inventive product design and production.

On May 10and 11, PLAST2bCLEANED attended The Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2023 (PRSE), a conference, exhibition, and awards ceremony for recycling plastics in continental Europe,  hosted at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre.

During the conference, Ana Rita Neiva, Plastics Recycling Engineer at Coolrec, responsible for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment recycling within the project, participated in the PRSE exhibition to highlight its technologies and advancements, including PLAST2bCLEANAED, at a booth in this show.

On April 28, a new online session of “Technological pills” organised by Aclima, the Basque Environment Cluster, in conjunction with BRTA, the Basque Research & Technology Alliance was held and hosted by Sixto Arnaiz, Head of the Recycling and Circular Economy Area at GAIKER.

The cycle of “Technology Pills 2023” is being put on to encourage creativity through quick sessions. The talk primarily focused on the “New Developments in the Automatic Identification and Separation of Waste.” discussed the significant contributions of technology in waste management, and the latest developments in the field of automatic waste identification and separation.

Moreover, the season also focused on GAIKER’s role in the PLAST2bCLEANED project, where the center plays a key role through the application of state-of-the-art technologies like RAMAN spectroscopy, which facilitates techniques for the recycling of black polymers, the most difficult ones to deal with nowadays.

Technology Pills 2023 edition gathered, experts from the industry who came together to share their knowledge and insights on various topics, especially focused in the filed of automatic waste identification and separation.

On May 10, PLAST2bCLEANED attended the Going Green – CARE INNOVATION 2023conference and exhibition on Electronics and Environment held at The International CARE Electronics Office where the latest advancements in circular economy, environmental design, clean manufacturing, resource efficiency, climate change, and new eco-efficient technologies were showcased, in Vienna (Austria).

During the conference, Ainara Pocheville, Iratxe Uría and Oscar Salas, from GAIKER, gave the presentation entitled Advanced sorting classification models based on Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics to improve Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) plastics recycling.

GAIKER’s presentation is available here.

On April 25, TNO visited Fraunhofer facilities to discuss the progress obtained at the plant. The visit was aimed at exploring advancements in the PLAST2bCLEANED Project.

During the visit, TNO representatives were given a tour of the Fraunhofer installations, including the laboratories and research centers. The researchers from Fraunhofer provided detailed insights into the latest developments in their respective fields, highlighting the most recent technologies and innovations and what has been achieved so far.

For TNO, it was a great opportunity to learn about the progress in the recovery unit of PLAST2bCLEANED, among other tasks, and explore potential collaborations with Fraunhofer in the coming future.

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On March 28, PLAST2bCLEANED attended the Electro-Plast 2023 conference organised by Nortal Consulting, a business consultancy specialising in the polymer and plastics industry, to discuss everything that makes up the supply chain, held in Düsseldorf (Germany).

During the conference, Dr. Ronny Hanich-Spahn Scientist at Fraunhofer ICT, gave a presentation entitled Challenges and opportunities of recycled plastics in household appliances, including the performance of PLAST2bCLEANED technologies.

The conference was chaired by Mr. Noru Tsalic, a polymer and plastics industry professional.

FRAUNHOFER ICT presentation is available here.

Campine, PLAST2bCLEANED’s antimony recovery expert visited ICL’s (bromine recovery leader) facilities in Israel, including the plastics laboratory where the testing for PLAST2bCLEANED is carried out.

The objective of Campine’s visit was to continue the cooperation between the two entities so that brominated flame retardants (BFR) and antimony trioxide (ATO), different types of components, become part of the circular economy and keep working on the PLAST2bCLEANED project. Throughout the project, Campine contributes to delivering plastic material with identified bromine and antimony trioxide content and ICL supports the project as advisor about the use of brominated flame retardants and the technology to finally recovery the bromine.

On the other hand, Campine and ICL managers met and discussed about the progress in the recovery of chemicals, antimony, and bromine.

On November 29, ICL as partner responsible for the bromine recovery within PLAST2bCLEANED, gave a presentation at the AMI conference – Fire Resistance in Plastics celebrated in Cologne, Germany.

Eyal Eden, Plastic Lab and Technical Support Manager was in charge of the speech entitled Sustainable Fire Resistance systems for Styrenics in which PLAST2bCLEANED goal and current status were showcased.

ICL presentation is available here.