PRecycling aims to produce high-quality recyclates from plastics waste streams by developing an easy-to-use methodology for sorting, sampling, tracing, recycling techniques, and analysis procedures of both plastic waste streams (PWS) and recyclates, and to assess the environmental and financial viability of them in selected waste management processes for plastics waste and secondary raw materials, in order to change the current paradigm of low cost non-environmentally friendly actions such as landfilling.
The project will tackle the actual challenges for the management of the EoL (End-of-life) TP (thermoplastic) materials and their recycling and design novel schemes to enhance the circularity of future products made of these materials. The target is to ensure recyclate consistent quality and safe use in products for home appliances, toys, and textiles, showing that high-quality, unique materials made from such waste can be reused, both within the same and new supply chains and products. The proposed methodology and process chain of PRecycling are expected to have a significant societal impact apart from commercial and industry interest and it could be adapted by many other sectors such as packaging and automotive.
BioG3D is involved in the employment of recycled TP (Thermo-Plastic) materials in Additive Manufacturing, while aiming to produce safe and circular future toys with significant societal impact. This is realized through the production of customizable and inclusive 3D printed toys that account for the targeted needs of the users, based on design-for-all principles.