The EndOfPlastics circular economy project will seek post-consumer plastic recycling solutions from the Basque Country that currently end up in landfills. Specifically, it will seek to dispose of more than 200,000 tons of waste per year, demonstrating the viability of an alternative management and improving the current treatment of plastics.
The launch of this project, at the end of 2017, has anticipated the presentation of the novel “Plastic Strategy in a Circular Economy” by the European Commission in January 2018, in which they also seek to contribute.
The main objective is to use the waste fractions to produce plastic products for mass consumption. For this reason, one of the main activities of the project is to define technically and economically viable products, working with industrial and distribution companies of plastic products.
The object fractions consist of materials that, although nowadays are considered waste due to their mixing condition, are of high quality and suitable to serve as raw materials in the production of new products, for which the compilation is being carried out. of some of the main streams of waste plastics in the Basque Country, such as Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), styrenic plastics, polyamide and polyolefins of various origins, among others.
