Agro2Circular

The hidden value of agrifood sector residues

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LOOP Cluster

FORERUNNER PROJECTS AND REGIONS IN THE APPLICATION OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACHES

European regions crucial actors and drivers for the implementation of circular ecosystems and value chains. As such, the LOOP cluster came to life as a joint, bottom-up initiative of the four sister projects Agro2Circular, CIRCULAR FOAM, EcoeFISHent, and FRONTSH1P, all funded under the same Horizon 2020 GD3.2 call to demonstrate systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy in European regions and their further replication. As all four projects share the same goal a regular exchange and deep cooperation seemed and seems only natural.

The wheel to be reinvented

The agri-food context is evolving

  • 40% of food wasted is from fruit & vegetables (F&V) sector.
  • Inefficiencies and complexity of sorting and recycling of multilayer plastic films (MPF) made landfilling and incineration the only available options.

Agro2Circular has developed multiple technologies to avoid such waste and give new life to agrifood waste and multilayer plastic film, by transforming them into new products.

Find more about what’s behind Agro2Circular in the infographic.

The wheel of change

The hidden value of agri-food residues, revealed and boosted through a circular approach

A2C has been boosting the upcycling of agri-food wastes (from F&V and MPF) through innovative routes of valorisation, which has lead to high extraction yields, bioactives with the purity and stability required to be used for the production of new food, cosmetic and nutraceutical formulation.

Find out more about the innovation routes developed by Agro2Circular:

  • Infographic 1: Technologies for the recycling of organic agrifood waste
  • Infographic 2: Recycking and sorting of multilayer plastic residues

The whole process and products is traceable through an innovative ICT platform functioning as predictive tool for decision support (DIS – data integration system).

13K

Reducing the consumption of primary materials (fossil, biomass and metal ores) in >13,000 ktonnes

Improve sustainability and circularity of clusters’ economic sectors, natural ecosystems, management and valorisation of local resources

27K

Decreasing >27,000 ktonnes CO2 eq emissions

15

15 new key exploitable results and >30 new circular business models, generating a turnover of 166.8M€

Job

Job creation: short term (26) -> medium term (295) -> through replication (590-2655)

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>30 business ideas and establishment of >100 local alliances

Circularity is the answer

The compass for the provision of sustainable, territorial systemic solutions

This circular approach has been shaped around a multidimensional model enabling adoption and scalability of territorial systemic solutions while being sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, fair, boosting urban&regional economies, empowering all actors (citizens, industries, decision makers, academia) and fostering circular practices. Find more information about the A2C model and the Self-Assessment Tool through the infopack.

Radial points turning the tide

Anchored to the territory, ready to be scaled up

The A2C approach has been tested in the Región de Murcia (Spain) and replicated in other two other EU countries (Italy and Lithuania), backed up by a circular business model and strong public engagement and co-creation processes, maximizing replicability and scalability.

Contacts

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and meet the partners.
agrofood
Agrotransformados
ALMOND
Bicocca
BOKU
cajamar
CETEC
CETBIO
cew
CTNC
DMC
ecotrace
EQUMETRICS
eurada
eversia
evrythng
GWC
ICONS
IRIS
Kveloce
lik
LoLo
EPOCH BIODESIGN
MKS
POLIBIENESTAR
PrimaFrio
proexport
REGENERA
saperatec
solplast
SSICA
TECNOALIMENTI
UNE
Universidad de Alicante
westus
INFOMurcia
VTT
Bocconi
EXUS
Citromil
CARM
Sairem

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