Brussels -- The EU commission has published a list of all new projects funded under the LIFE programme. Most of the projects concerning waste are based in France and Spain and mostly the development plans were submitted by scientific or industrial institutes. The volume of funding for the single projects is not yet known because projects are summed up to funding groups like LIFE+ Environment Policy and Governance oder LIFE+ Nature under the specific nations.

The list of projects on waste issues (excluding wastewater-themes) contains:

Belgium -- C2CGYPSUM (Eurogypsum-Association Européenne des Industries du Plâtre): The project aims to transform the gypsum demolition waste market to achieve higher recycling rates of gypsum waste, thereby helping to achieve a resource efficient economy. To do this, it will focus on the “deconstruction” rather than demolition of end-of-life buildings. As well as demonstrating the feasibility and advantages of deconstruction versus demolition, the project will incorporate of the processed gypsum into the manufacturing process. Contact: info@eurogypsum.org

Cyprus -- QuaResE (Department of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources & Environment): This project aims to demonstrate alternative methods for the production of bricks, ceramics and cement using waste quarry slurry as a raw material. The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the use of virgin raw materials, providing environmental and financial benefits for the industries concerned. Contact: tmesimeris@environment.moa.gov.cy

Germany -- MARSS (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen): The main objective of the project is to build a demonstration plant in Trier to prove that there is an effective way to separate and reuse the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (up to 60% of MSW) as a renewable energy fuel. The project team will extend an existing low-tech mechanical-biological treatment plant into an innovative processing and recycling plant to produce biomass fuel. Contact: hornsby@ifa.rwth-aachen.de

Spain -- IBERWASTE (ZURKO RESEARCH S.L): The main objective of this project is to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of innovative and environmentally friendly disposal and valorisation systems for Iberian pig wastes, that will turn valueless wastes into inputs for agriculture. To achieve this overall goal, the project aims to design, optimise and scale-up a protocol providing instructions covering collection, classification, disposal and preservation techniques for the different sorts of pig wastes. Contact: sabina@zurkoresearch.com

Spain -- ECORAEE (Universidad de Vigo): The project intends to show that re-use of waste electrical and electronic goods (WEEE) is a technically, economically and environmentally feasible alternative to recycling. The project will characterise and compare the environmental impact of different finishing processes of WEEE. It will then define a process of preparing WEEE for re-use and identify the resources needed to implement this in practice. It plans to conduct four demonstrations of the process of preparing computer equipment for re-use to analyse the feasibility of the process. Contact: jvilan@uvigo.es

Spain -- FoodWaste Treatment (Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gijón): This project aims to promote and drive an innovative concept that will enable sustainable management of packed and unpacked food waste across the EU. It seeks to demonstrate and promote a new technologically and economically valid food-waste transformation process based on improved collection, separation and valorisation of fractions. It will define new strategies for the optimisation of collection and reception procedures for food waste, to be implemented at waste generation points. This will include influencing behavioural change and political will. It will then demonstrate and promote an innovative technology for de-packaging that aims to completely separate organic and inorganic fractions. Contact: a.dominguez@grupobfc.com

Spain -- GREENROAD (Construciones Obras Públicas San Emeterio S.A). The project aims to provide achievable examples of how the road sector can become greener and to demonstrate sustainable programmes of public works. It specifically aims to show the technical and economic viability of using at least 90% recycled asphalt mixtures in road construction, by using eco-mixtures composed of steel slag, wastes from pilot road milling and end-of-life tyres. At the same time, it expects to revalorise industrial waste from the region that otherwise entails high environmental and economic costs. Contact: mariajose@copsesa.com

Spain -- H2ALRECYCLING (JAP Energéticas y Medioambientales S.L.): The project aims to design and construct a pilot plant to obtain hydrogen for use as an alternative clean fuel using a new more environmentally friendly process. It seeks to exploit the reaction between aluminium and waste ammonium hydroxide from other industrial processes, which generates hydrogen as a by-product. It hopes to optimise the efficiency of the process for powering a fuel cell. Relevant to climate change. Contact: jap@fundacioninvestigacion.org

France -- LOOP (Rhodia Operations S.A.S.): This project aims to recover rare earth (RE) elements in waste instead of sending them to landfill. In particular, it aims to validate the full potential of innovative, environmentally friendly recycling of the RE elements contained in phosphorescent powders of fluorescent lamps. It will aim to demonstrate that it is possible to recycle 1 500 tonnes/yr of phosphorescent powder wastes, matching the amount of this type of waste generated each year in Europe. Contact: frederic.carencotte@eu.rhodia.com

France -- WASTE ON A DIET (Syndicat de Besançon et sa région pour le traitement des déchets): The project aims to deploy solutions to facilitate full implementation of a “pay-as-you-throw” scheme in Besançon. It aims to address the particular challenges of collective housing and rural areas to reduce quantities of waste and increase local treatment and recycling of organic waste. The project will establish a team to assess waste management practices at the entrances of each collective housing residential block. They will investigate quantities of waste, standards of cleanliness and extent of poor waste practices. The team will suggest ways and tools by which the city council, landlords, waste collection and composting organisations can improve their interventions to have the most positive impact on household waste management practices. Contact: christine.sautenet@sybert.fr

France -- CDW-recycling (Sud Est Assainissement): The project aims to use innovative technologies to find solutions to the problems currently limiting the recycling and re-use of construction and demolition waste (CDW) materials. It will establish a pilot plant that should be capable of sorting CDW pieces of 8-30 mm and of 30-80 mm at industrial scale. The new process should effectively demonstrate that it is possible to recover large quantities of CDW and with less environmental impact than using traditional management techniques. Contact: jean-charles.berard@veolia-proprete.fr

France -- WEEELIBS (CRITT Matériaux Alsace): The project will use laser technology (LIBS) to analyse waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) to enable it to be sorted and separated so that suitable materials can be reclaimed for recycling. A demonstration plant will be set up to validate the efficiency of the system. The project will set out to show that laser technology provides an excellent means of separating materials from small electronic parts, thin wire and thin-plating materials, where existing techniques are not effective. Contact: m.boudinet@critt.fr

Greece -- Waste2Bio (National Technical University of Athens): The aim is to design, develop, test, optimise and evaluate an innovative pilot-scale plant for the production of bioethanol from biowaste via bioconversion. This pilot plant will be able to convert more than 70% of the biowaste feed into second-generation bioethanol. Contact: mloiz@chemeng.ntua.grmloiz@chemeng.ntua.gr

Greece -- Recycling@Home (Municipal Development Company of Amaroussion): The project will promote the sustainable management of Municipal Solid Waste by fostering recycling and re-use at home. It will do this by developing and testing an innovative, prototype system for the separate collection and minimisation of the volume of recyclable household waste, and the production of clean recovered materials of high quality that can be reintroduced in the market. The proposed technology is expected to minimise the storage and transportation of recyclable waste, thus reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental risks related to unsustainable waste management practices. Contact: european@maroussi.gr

Italy -- Low resources Low energy (Majorca S.p.A.): The objectives of the project are to drastically reduce the use of non-renewable resources by manufacturing a new family of ceramic-tile-like wall and floor coverings. The project will implement a process capable of recycling waste, such as exhausted lime and to convert waste into coverings using an innovative waterless recycling practice for glass-based waste, lime and natural stone cuttings. This process will help to reduce water and energy consumption in the manufacturing of wall and floor coverings. Contact: corrado.m@majorca.it

Italy -- WASTE2LIFE (Vinyloop Ferrarra Spa): This project will redesign and scale up the cPVC recycling process, and demonstrate for the first time at industrial scale how it can overcome remaining bottlenecks. The project will also conduct a lifecycle assessment to demonstrate that the process offers a recycling blueprint that can be promoted and replicated across the EU. Contact: francesco.tarantino@solvay.com

Italy -- SOREME (Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds): The project will demonstrate the use of an innovative sorbent for the removal of mercury from gas streams from different industrial production cycles. The sorbent will be produced from sulphur-impregnated activated carbon derived from waste tyres. Contact: bramanti@pi.iccom.cnr.it

Italy -- PRISCA (Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna): The main objective of the 'PRISCA' project is to reduce the flow of bulky waste sent to landfill in the areas covered by the project. The project will also attempt to reduce waste such as packaging that is classified as bulky waste, but which should be recovered or re-used. For this end it will set up two re-use centres, in Vicenza (northern Italy) and San Benedetto del Tronto (central Italy). Contact: frey@sssup.it

Poland -- MORENERGY (Instytut Mechanizacji Budownictwa i Górnictwa Skalnego): The main objective of this project is to demonstrate an innovative technology using ‘micronisation’ methods for generating pollutant-free energy from waste biomass. A full-scale prototype demonstration installation will be designed and built to test and document the performance of ‘micronisation’ techniques in biomass energy production under different operational parameters. Relevant to climate change. Contact: r.podgorzak@imbigs.org.pl

The complete LIFE programme list can be downloaded from europa.eu.

Quelle: EU commission

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