EFFECTIVE - Advanced Eco-designed Fibres and Films for large consumer products from biobased polyamids and polyesters in a circular EConomy perspecTIVE

DESCRIPTION
The project covers the whole value chain: feedstock production, conversion into innovative biobased building blocks through chemical and biotechnological processes, formulation of innovative biobased polymers (polyesters and polyamides), final products development, end-of-life products management and processing.
Following a circular economy approach, the sustainability of the value chains will be further enhanced by the demonstration of an improved end-of-life of the developed eco-designed biobased solutions through the application of monomer regeneration, recycling (for polyamides based fibres and films) and composting/anaerobic digestion (for polyesters based films) processes.
OBJETIVES
Such materials will be applied into eco-designed large consumer products targeting different markets, i.e. construction, automotive, primary and secondary packaging and textile and with the potential of being applied into many other markets (fishing, engineering plastics, agriculture, hygiene and personal care).
CIRCE´s ROLE
In addition will carry out the evaluation of the resource and energy efficiency to further optimize the processes, as well as studies on social acceptance toward the future market uptake of the biobased products
Together with the rest of the partners CIRCE will also evaluate the environmental, economic and social sustainability through the application of LCA, LCC and S-LCA (Social Life Cycle Assessment) methodologies. Furthermore, the center will contribute to the definition of strategies and measures to be undertaken towards the standardization of the biobased products.