CIRC-PACK

CIRCE is in charge of project coordination, guaranteeing administrative, financial, legal, efficient and comprehensive management to ensure successful execution. On the technical side, CIRCE will be in charge of the following activities:

• It will define the methodology for the social, economic and environmental evaluation
• Analyze the replicability of the CIRCPACK value chain in each region involved
• Evaluate the impact of the project and its social acceptability

The CIRC-PACK project aims to develop a more sustainable, efficient, competitive, integrated and interconnected plastic packaging value chain that is less dependent on fossil resources. To this end, the project consortium will develop three innovations through three demonstration cases:

1. Decoupling the fossil feedstock chain
2. Develop new formats and reduce the negative environmental impact of particularly problematic end-of-life packaging such as multilayer and multi-material packaging
3. Create effective economics for end-of-life recovered plastic, improving the reliability of recovered raw materials to ensure the quality of products made from them

The CIRC-PACK project will provide innovative biodegradable plastics using bio-based alternative raw materials that will play a key role in the next stages of the plastics value chain. These developments will contribute to significantly reducing the environmental footprint of packaging by increasing the bio-based raw material content and using compostable materials. Finally, a multi-sectoral cascade recycling approach involving different sectors will be applied, which will also have crucial impacts on other value chains (automotive, hygienic products), increasing the typology and reliability of both the recovered raw material and the products manufactured with it.

All CIRC-PACK activities will be supported by an innovative evaluation methodology (social, economic and environmental) of the plastic packaging value chain to assess the transition from the current linear plastic packaging value chain to the circular economy concept.