Project
About the project
The Context… currently available packaging materials
Conventional plastic packaging are low cost, light weight, versatile, have good protective properties…
But they:- Contribute to the depletion of our finite non-renewable resources.
- Often use multilayer structures to meet required performances which are difficult to recycle. Same goes for coated textile packaging.
- In addition, in many cases left over products at EoL make material recycling challenging.
PLA is currently the most affordable bio-based and biodegradable plastic but its biodegradability, and that of many other biodegradable biopolymers, is not granted in every environment.
Defficient plastic packaging EoL
Of the plastics reaching waste management systems:- Only recycled at < 31%
- Landfilled at 30-40%
- Incinerated at 30-40%
- Insufficient collection for organic recycling
Key figures
BionTop Key figures:
- Call topic: BBI.2018.SO3.R10 - Develop bio-based packaging products that are biodegradable/ compostable and/or recyclable
- RIA (Start TRL 3-4, Target TRL 5-6)
- 4 years (1/06/2019 – 31/05/2023 )
- Budget 5,4M€ (BBI-JU contribution 4,2M€)
- 21 partners (4 Research and Technology Organisations, 9 SMEs, 6 Large Industries, a consumers’ association and a pan EU industry association)
- 7 Biobased Industries Consortium members
- +Advisory board
- 8 countries
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