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JOINT WORKSHOP UPCYCLING BIO-PLASTIC OF FOOD & DRINK PACKAGING

Uplift — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:26:56 +0000

The UPLIFT Project hosted the “Joint Workshop: UPCYCLING BIO-PLASTIC OF FOOD & DRINK PACKAGING” on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at 10:00 (CET) together with the European projects UPET-T and PRESERVE.

The event gathered a wide range of experts where around 150 attendees could enjoy different approaches to implement new sustainable solutions for transforming food and drink packaging into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value, ensuring that micro-plastics are avoided

The participating projects were UPLIFT, PRESERVE and UPPE-T. The workshop also counted on the presence of Hasso von Pogrell, managing director of European Bioplastics and Aleksandra Branković, senior researcher for the Institute for Development and Innovation in Belgrade.

The aim of this event was to build a high-level meeting point for stakeholders across Europe to showcase initiatives and solutions for the food industry packaging that cannot be recycled. The workshop was divided into three parts: during the first one, the workshop counted on different short talks to frame the European bio-plastic sector and the plastic policy framework, while the second block showcased the objectives, methodologies, impacts, and expected results of each project. Finally, an open discussion was conducted regarding the importance of clustering.

The three initiatives will help to develop technological improvements in the sense of better manufacturing and processing practices for these plastic materials to facilitate proper waste management. Developing upcycling technologies will allow sustainable recycling or biological degradation in accordance with existing and novel technologies, standards, and certification schemes.

Below, you can find the recording of the session:

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UPLIFT AT THE INTERNATIONAL PLASTICS AND RUBBER EVENT, EQUIPLAST

Uplift — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:18:46 +0000

From September 14 to September 17, the International Plastics and Rubber Event, EQUIPLAST was held in Barcelona as a meeting point between industry and science, through sustainability, knowledge dissemination and digitalisation, with a focus on innovation, new materials and biotechnology.

There, our partner AIMPLAS presented the UPLIFT project in their own stand where they carried out flyers and explained the scope of the project to the different stakeholders who attended to the event.

EQUIPLAST event has been organised since 2017 with the objective of providing solutions for the main challenges of the sector. The organisation counts on the presence of 15000 visitors, more than 350 exhibitors and 654 brands in the framework of plastics and rubbers field.

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UPLIFT at the Plastic recyclability and circular economy online conference

Uplift — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:47:45 +0000

On October 4, the Plastic recyclability and circular economy online conference counted on the presence of Anders Daugaard, Associate Professor from the Technical University of Denmark and Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Professor from the Lund University.

The session was revolving around plastics in a circular economy where researchers were invited to briefly present their work on specific topics such as green building blocks for plastics of the future, design of plastics for circular economy and emerging recycling technologies.

There, Rajni and Anders introduced the concept, the impacts and the general objectives of the UPLIFT project. The session was held online and hosted by the French Embassy in Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), through the research programme Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways (STEPS), and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

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Uplift — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 09:07:33 +0000

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UPLIFT – Plastics Project at the 6th International Conference on biocatalysis in non-conventional media

Uplift — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:52:30 +0000

From May 6^th to May 8^th, our work package leader in the depolymerization of plastics and cleaning, Alessandro Pellis attended the International Conference on Biocatalysis in Non-conventional Media where he showcased UPLIFT in an oral presentation about green solvents as media for the enzymatic synthesis of polyesters.

The sixth International Conference on Biocatalysis in Non-conventional Media (BNCM2021) included lectures delivered by internationally recognized speakers, both from academia and industry, oral and poster sessions dedicated to the selected abstracts in the framework of non-conventional biocatalysis media for the preparation of compounds of interest for the agri-food, pharmaceutical, and polymers industries.

Check Alessandro’s presentation on UPLIFT Youtube Channel

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The UPLIFT Project explores new related projects to collaborate with under the Upcycling BioPlastics of food and drinks packaging topic

Uplift — Wed, 19 May 2021 07:34:06 +0000

On May 13th, 2021, the UPLIFT project held an online meeting together with the initiatives upPE-T and PRESERVE to explore future collaborations with other similar projects under the framework of BioPlastics within the food and drink packaging sector. The core of the session was to introduce the project’s scope and share some of the best practices to collaborate.

During the session, the upPE-T project explained their role in upcycling polyethylene (PE) and polyethylene terephthalate to generate biodegradable bioplastics; PRESERVE showcased its approach about high performance sustainable bio-based packaging with the tailored end-of-life and upcycled secondary use; for their part, the UPLIFT project presented the concept to biologically depolymerise bio- and fossil-based plastic packaging waste and convert it into more renewable and easily upcyclable polymers.

With the strong competencies of the three projects, UPLIFT, upPE-T, and PRESERVE will be able to explore new collaboration ideas that will boost the development of BioPlastics of food and drink packaging.

The UPLIFT Project explores new related projects to collaborate with under the Upcycling BioPlastics of food and drinks packaging topic

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