CARTIF PROJECTS
CIRCTHREAD
Unlock access to product data and use it for enhanced CE decision making across the product life cycle.
Description
Circthread´s main objective is to unlock access to product data and use it for enhanced CE decision making across the product life cycle. CircThread will enable to capture and share both data and CE decisions as part of a collaborative information infrastructure, providing a Circular product chain of custody.
Information covering product status, materials, resources, critical raw materials, product lifespan, environmental, social, end-of-use options, that will be linked to Circularity Strategies, from products maintenance and lifespan extension, to refurbishment, repair and re-use, re-manufacturing and finally recycling.
Objectives
- Develop a digital thread across the product life cycle with accessible information.
- Provide integrated life cycle sustainability and circularity assessment methodologies.
- Support sustainability and circularity assessment standards in Europe.
- Empower companies, consumers and consumer organizations.
- Evaluate product re-use and recycling, for policy monitoring.
Actions
- The project will test 7 use cases: Product tracking and tracing, product manufacturing, spare parts recovery, end of use aspects, lifespan extension, critical raw materials and chemicals, consumer´s behaviour.
- The use cases address economic, environmental, circularity and social aspects.
- The uses cases will be tested in 3 demos focusing on the home appliance sector and home energy systems.
Expected Results
- Provide consumers with information on mobile devices on WEEE collection & repair options.
- Enable a further shift to product as a service business models by OEMs.
- Improved pre-selection of WEEE for different processes to improve separation.
- Evaluations of the potential yield of new recycling technologies and their cost.
- Provide feedback from collectors and recyclers to OEM designers.
Partners
H2020
Total Budget: 9,883,198 €
Contribution EU: 7,994,956 €
Duration: June 2021 – May 2025
Responsible
Fernando Burgoa
Division of Agrifood and Processes
Networking
Circular Economy and Biotechnology projects:
LIFE VALPORC
The goal of the LIFE + VALPORC is to demonstrate a sustainable alternative to the management of pig carcasses and manure, focusing on the environmental problems derived from its current management and valorizing these wastes by transforming them into biofuels (biogas and biodiesel) and organic fertilizers,
LIFE SMART Hospital
The LIFE SMART Hospital Project has promoted the sustainability of the health sector through the deployment of best practices and available technologies, training programs and replication of experience.
VALOR-PLUS
The VALOR-PLUS supports the realisation of sustainable, economically viable closed loop integrated biorefineries through the development of new knowledge, (bio-)technologies and products that enable valorisation of key biorefinery by-products.
LIFE COLRECEPS
The main objective of the COLRECEPS project is the implementation of a prototype demonstration plant to recycle residual EPS and obtain EPS beads. With these pearls, new recycled EPS prototype products will be manufactured.
LIFE REVAWASTE
The LIFE REVAWASTE project (www.revawaste.eu) was born proposing the sustainable management of a broad spectrum of waste in an integrated plant or “Mixed Plant”.
LIFE EUCALYPTUS ENERGY
The LIFE EUCALYPTUS ENERGY Project consists of the pyrolysis of eucalyptus biomass for the production of electricity and biochar. It is intended to make use of the residual biomass of eucalyptus forest exploitation.
RECALZA
RECALZA proposes to develop a chemical recycling process of the generated polyurethane foam residues, to obtain the polyol again and re-manufacture new products (recycled soles) that meet the requirements for the footwear sector.
CONREPOL
The CONREPOL project will evaluate both chemical procedures based on the use of compounds that increase the surface polarity (silane coupling agents) of the waste and physical treatments with the same objective.
GREEN-CAR
The GREEN CAR ecodesign Project applies the ecodesign methodology to several components of the “electric vehicle” system: batteries, converter, charging points, conditioning systems and auxiliary systems from renewable sources
LIFE RESCATAME
RESCATAME represents a new system for the sustainable management of traffic through the use of models that predict pollution levels, which are supported by data collected by the network of air quality sensors, and that can help to execute a rapid action.
BIOREFINERÍA FT
The FT BIOREFINERY Project consists in developing a technology that allows obtaining 2nd generation liquid biofuels (synthetic diesel) and electrical energy, through the application of gasification and co-gasification processes, of different types of solid and / or liquid waste ( herbaceous biomass, lignocellulosic, glycerin, etc.)
BIALEMA
BIALEMA: RED for the production of Biofuels and its impact on food, energy and the environment. Conducted by Dr. Antonio Francisco Valdes Delgado (CUBAENERGIA).
BIORECOS
The BIORECOS Project aims to design and build a demonstration plant of a modular nature that allows, through pyrolysis, the production of charcoal and / or active coal, as well as the generation of electrical energy.
ENHANCE HEALTH
The ENHANCE HEALTH project focuses on environmental and health concerns related to air pollution produced by industries and waste incinerators in urban areas.