Thessaloniki, Greece
Agro2Circular strenghtening collaboration with its sister projects
The 1st PestNu workshop on sister projects’ clustering activities will take place on July 2022 in Thessaloniki (Greece). Agro2Circular will be present to
Agro2Circular
The hidden value of agrifood sector residues
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)
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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 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
29 Jun 2022
Agro2Circular at the national stakeholders meeting: communicating our strategy
The dissemination of Agro2Circular strategies to boost the upcycling of the agri-food sector residues has begun in Murcia Region, Spain.
Press Release
17 May 2022
Agro2Circular: a territorial circular systemic solution to upcycle agrifood sector residues
The European Union is striving to build a sustainable, low-carbon and resource efficient economy that is also competitive. This means developing a circular model for the economy, one that squeezes out the value of every product right across its lifecycle and beyond.