Each year, the olive oil industry produces huge quantities of production waste with enormous disposal costs in order to avoid toxic pollution of land and water resources.

The goal of the RECIPLAST project is to improve eco-sustainability of plastic used in the packaging and automobile industries in three ways: chemical recycling, mechanical recycling and optimisation of recycled materials.

Specifically, the UPO team are working on the development of recycling processes for waste materials from car components which pose problems in the recycling chain and are destined for landfill. These waste materials are treated with polyurethane expanses by chemical recyling and mixed plastic elements mixed by mechanical recycling.

The goal of this project is the development of a new strategy for second life use of a heterogenous plastic waste product, Plasmix.

Two of the challenges to be tackled in order to make urban territory and industrial manufacturing sustainable from an ecological point of view, are the capture and conversion of CO2 in useful compost and the transformation of urban waste into raw materials for agriculture and industry.

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