BioICEP Project

About the project

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The Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP) is a pan European-Chinese collaboration formed to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment. Different mixed plastic pollution environments are represented, with specific partners selected which have the expertise and facilities to carry out the necessary technical innovations.

A number of innovative booster technologies are at the core of this solution accentuating, expediting, and augmenting mixed plastics degradation to levels far in excess of those current achievable. Our approach is The Bio Innovation of a Circular Economy for Plastics (BioICEP) consortium is a pan European-Chinese collaborative formed to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment. The countries have been selected to represent different mixed plastic pollution environments, with specific partners selected which have the expertise and facilities to carry out the necessary technical innovations. Three innovative booster technologies are at the core of this solution accentuating, expediting, and augmenting plastics degradation to levels far in excess of those current achievable.

Our approach is a triple-action depolymerisation system where plastic waste will be broken down in three consecutive processes:

Mechano-biochemical disintegration processes, including a new proprietary sonic-green-chemical technology to reduce the polymer molecular weight of the base polymer to make it amenable to biodegradation;
Biocatalytic digestion, with enzymes enhanced through a range of innovative techniques including accelerated screening through novel fluorescent sensor and directed evolution;
Microbial consortia developed from best in class single microbial strains, which combined leads to highly efficient degradation of mixed plastic waste streams. The outputs from this degradation process will be used as building blocks for new polymers or other bioproducts to enable a new plastic waste-based circular economy.

Goals

The project’s overall objective is to demonstrate a seamless sustainable route to a circular economy for plastics by developing an advanced energy, carbon, and cost-efficient waste plastic biotransformation into high market demand bioproducts and bioplastics. The consortium brings together leading experts from industry and academia contributing a set of purpose-designed and ground-breaking technologies in order to achieve the following specific objectives:

1. Development of accelerated high-efficiency biodegradation incorporating microorganism communities expressing at least three novel and improved enzymatic activities enabling the degradation of mixtures of plastics.

2. Sustainable degradation of at least 20% of mixed plastics.

3. Bioprocessed high value bioproducts including equivalent bioplastics valorising mixed plastic waste.

4. Sustainable prototype system plan, paving the way to bring the developed solution to the market, fulfilling current needs, future expectations, and delivering a seamless bio-innovative route for a circular economy for plastics.

Results

Consortium

ACTECO

Zamora 24 IBI (03559) - Alicante Spain

https://www.acteco.es

AIMPLAS

València Parc Tecnològic Calle Gustave Eiffel, 4 46980 Paterna Valencia, ESPAÑA

https://www.aimplas.es

AIT

Coordinator Dublin road Athlone - Ireland

https://www.ait.ie

AVECOM

Industrieweb 122P Gent-Wondelgem (Postcode 9032) Belgium

http://www.avecom.be

Beijing Institute of Technology

5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing Postcode: 100081

http://english.bit.edu.cn/

IBET

AVENIDA DA REPUBLICA QUINTO DO MARQ OEIRAS (Postcode 2781 901) Portugal

https://www.ibet.pt

IMCAS

NO.1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101

http://english.im.cas.cn/

IMGGE

VOJVODE STEPE 444A BEOGRAD (Postcode 11010) Serbia

www.imgge.bg.ac.rs

LIT

MOYLISH PARK LIMERICK Ireland

https://www.lit.ie

LOGOPLASTE ILAB

ESTRADA DA MALVEIRA ED LOGOPLASTE M CASCAIS (Postcode 2750 782) Portugal

https://www.logoplaste.com

MicroLife Solutions B.V.

Science Park 406 Amsterdam (Postcode 1098 XH) Netherlands

https://www.microlifesolutions.nl/

NTUA

HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU C ATHINA (Postcode 15780) Greece

https://www.chemeng.ntua.gr/indubiocat/

Shandong University

27 Shanda Nanlu, Jinan, Shandong, P.R.China 250100

https://en.sdu.edu.cn/

TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

College Green DUBLIN (Postcode 2) Ireland

https://www.tcd.ie/

TUC

ADOLPH ROMER STRASSE 2A CLAUSTHAL ZELLERFELD (Postcode 38670) Germany

www.tu-clausthal.de

Gallery

BioICEP at media

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28/07/2020
Mundoplast
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Food News Latam
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Cadena Ser
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CONVERtronic
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IDE
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08/07/2020
Interempresas Reciclaje y Gestión de Residuos
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Interempresas PLASTICO
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Interempresas Química
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Fruittoday
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07/07/2020
Eurocarne Digital
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07/07/2020
Izaro Manufacturing Technology
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Alimarket web
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07/07/2020
Mundoplast WEB
El proyecto BioICEP desarrolla alternativas al plástico
07/07/2020
Ambientum
UN PROCESO DE TRIPLE ACCIÓN PARA ACELERAR LA DEGRADACIÓN DEL PLÁSTICO Y CONVERTIRLO EN BIOPOLÍMEROS
07/07/2020
Residuos Profesional WEB
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07/07/2020
Industria Quimica
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07/07/2020
FuturEnviro
Aimplas acelera la degradación del plástico y lo convierte en biopolímeros en BioICEP
06/07/2020
Economia3
Un proceso convierte el plástico en biopolímero como sustituto biodegradable
06/07/2020
EFE
Aimplas y la creación de alternativas naturales al plástico
06/07/2020
Inforetail
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06/07/2020
Gente Digital
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06/07/2020
El Periódico de Aquí
Acelerando la degradación del plástico tradicional para su conversión en biopolímeros
06/07/2020
RETEMA
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06/07/2020
La Razon - innovadores
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06/07/2020
Agronoticias
Aimplas y la creación de alternativas naturales al plástico
06/07/2020
Inforetail - NewsLetter
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06/07/2020
Europa Press
BioICEP, un proyecto para acelerar la degradación del plástico tradicional
06/07/2020
20 Minutos
La industria química acelera la degradación de plásticos para convertirlo en biopolímeros
06/07/2020
LA INDUSTRIA
El proyecto BioICEP acelerará la degradación del plástico tradicional y lo convertirá en biopolímeros
06/07/2020
ENVAPACK
El proyecto BioICEP acelerará la degradación del plástico tradicional
01/07/2020
Plásticos Universales
A European project to reduce the burden of plastic waste in the environment
30/01/2020
AIMPLAS WEB
Athlone Institute of Technology leads global effort to tackle plastic pollution and develop next-generation materials
28/01/2020
Engineers Ireland
AIT Leads Global Effort to Tackle Plastic Pollution and Develop Next Generation Materials
27/01/2020
AIT
Tipperary woman central to global effort to tackle plastic pollution
23/01/2020
TIPP FM
Athlone Institute of Technology, plastic pollution crisis, Dr Margaret Brennan Fournet, Trinity College Dublin.
23/01/2020
RUEPOINTMEDIA
Athlone Institute of Technology, plastic pollution crisis, Dr Margaret Brennan Fournet.
23/01/2020
RUEPOINTMEDIA
BioICEP project to develop next generation materials kicks off
14/01/2020
Bioplastics Magazine
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14/11/2019
PTC Radio Televizija Srbije

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