Newsletter
23 May 2023
Agro2Circular is back with its second newsletter
Agro2Circular is halfway through the project, after a few months dense of events, activities and results: read the second newsletter to find out more.
The wheel to be reinvented
The agri-food context needs to evolve
- 40% of food wasted is from fruit & vegetables (F&V) sector.
- Inefficiencies and complexity of sorting and recycling of multilayer plastic films (MPF) make landfilling (34% of the total MPF waste) and incineration (66%) the only available option, to date.
- There’s a lack of an economic & environmentally sustainable value chain for the upcycling of F&V residues and multilayer plastic into high added value products.
- There’s a lack of demonstrated and replicable systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy
The wheel of change
The hidden value of agri-food residues, revealed and boosted through a circular approach
A2C is EU project boosting the upcycling of agri-food wastes (from F&V and MPF) through innovative routes of valorisation, leading to high extraction yields, bioactives with the purity and stability required to be used for the production of new food, cosmetic and nutraceutical formulation.
- MPF Recycling: a novel combination of sorting, physical delamination, enzymatic depolymerisation, decontamination and mechanical recycling.
- Upcycling of the recycled MPF, through biotransformation processes and extensional flow mix.
The whole process and products will be 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)
30
>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 will be shaped around a multidimensional model enabling adoption and scalability of territorial systemic solutions while being sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, fair, boosting urban®ional economies, empowering all actors (citizens, industries, decision makers, academia) and fostering circular practices.
Radial points turning the tide
Anchored to the territory, ready to be scaled up
The A2C approach will be 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
Get in contact with Agro2Circular
and meet the partners.
- Project coordinator, CETEC (Spain)
fuensanta.monzo@agro2circular.org - Communication, ICONS (Italy)
info@agro2circular.eu
Latest Updates
News
22 May 2023
Agriculture innovation and knowledge-sharing at the FAME- INNOWA technology trade fair
In the week of 19-23 April 2023, PROEXPORT took part in the FAME-INNOWA Agriculture Technology Trade Fair in Torre Pacheco, Murcia.
News
19 May 2023
A2C participated in the XI International Symposium FOOD TECHNOLOGY in Murcia, Spain
Agro2Circular participated in the XI International Symposium FOOD TECHNOLOGY that took place in Murcia, Spain, on May 11th and 12th, a parallel event of the Murcia Food BE 2023.