Descrizione del progetto
Trasformare la spazzatura in una risorsa
La metà dei gas serra globali e il 90 % della perdita di biodiversità sono causati dall’estrazione e dalla lavorazione delle materie prime primarie. Il consumo di risorse come la biomassa o i combustibili fossili sta aumentando rapidamente, rendendo urgentemente necessario orientarsi verso soluzioni di economia circolare nell’ambito di collaborazioni strategiche tra industrie, settori, città e regioni. In questo contesto, il progetto TREASoURcE, finanziato dall’UE, darà impulso a pratiche innovative di economia circolare per rendere i prodotti sostenibili la norma. Nello specifico, riutilizzerà e riciclerà in modo innovativo le plastiche, le batterie e i rifiuti di origine biologica che attualmente vengono bruciati, esportati, conferiti in discarica o abbandonati e coinvolgerà i cittadini, le imprese e le regioni partecipanti (paesi nordici e baltici, Polonia e Germania settentrionale) in azioni a favore della circolarità nelle città.
Obiettivo
TREASoURcE will innovatively circulate currently incinerated, exported, landfilled or dumped plastic and biobased side and waste streams by deploying systemic circular economy (CE) solutions. The systemic CE solutions will integrate the two main elements of TREASoURcE: stakeholder engagement demonstrations (SE-DEMOs) and key value chain demonstrations (KVC-DEMOs). The DEMOs support chosen territory clusters in introducing CE practices to their citizens and businesses to help 1) decouple from use of fossil virgin resources and excess raw material consumption, 2) increase resilience (self-sufficiency, value chain security, environment and nature), 3) decrease GHG emissions and contribute to achieve climate neutral economies. Climate change, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity are major global threats that require urgent collaborative actions across industry, sectors, cities and regions, communities and citizens. Half of total GHG emissions and more than 90 % of biodiversity loss come from resource extraction and processing. Global consumption of materials, especially biomass, fossil fuels, metals and minerals are expected to double by 2060 and annual waste generation is estimated to increase by 70 % by 2050. TREASoURcE focuses on demonstrating the CE solutions in cities and regions located in the Nordics (Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark), and they will be replicated in the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Poland and Germany (of the Baltic Sea Region). The combination of the cities and regions will enable large reach and bigger impact and boost the replicability and scalability potential of the CE solutions. A common issue of the regions’ material circulation is low and decentralised material volumes and resulting challenges in feasibility, and bottlenecks have been high risk investments due challenges in securing sufficient feedstock (quality and quantity). However, regional strengths lie in ambitious climate and environmental targets.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
02150 Espoo
Finlandia