UPLIFT - PLASTICS

🚩SAVE THE DATE🚩 UPLIFT - PLASTICS FINAL CONFERENCE | Shaping Tomorrow’s Packaging Today 🗓 JANUARY 16, 2025 ⏰09:00 (CET) 💻 Online The UPLIFT - PLASTICS project is organising its final event online to explain the final results and conclusions about upcycling bioplastics of food and drink packaging. Find more information about the session and the registration details below: https://lnkd.in/dKMdQzMU #upcycling #foodandbeverage #packaging #valuechain #recycling #polimers #circulareconomy Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

🙋Registration for our virtual Final Event Shaping Tomorrow’s Packaging Today is now open! 🗓 JANUARY 16, 2025. ⏰09:00-12:00 (CET) 💻 Online The UPLIFT - PLASTICS Project is organising its final conference where we will showcase the main results in several topics such as the plastic value chain, the depolymerization of plastics and cleaning, the fermentation of building blocks, the chemo-enzymatic polyester synthesis and the scalability processes, among others. If this sounds interesting to you, register now for free here:  👉👉   https://lnkd.in/dKMdQzMU   #upcycling #foodandbeverage #packaging #valuechain #recycling #polimers #circulareconomy Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

🗜 Did you know that we have uploaded a new paper entitled: Improving 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) tolerance of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 by automated adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE)? 📑 “The aldehyde 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) is of great importance for a circular bioeconomy. It is a renewable platform chemical that can be converted into a range of useful compounds to replace petroleum-based products such as the green plastic monomer 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). However, it also exhibits microbial toxicity for example hindering the efficient biotechnological valorization of lignocellulosic hydrolysates (…). ℹ Read the full paper on our website: https://lnkd.in/deBgcsZM Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

On 17th October 2024, the upPE-T project welcomed its partners, sister projects UPLIFT - PLASTICS and PRESERVE H2020 and a number of Greek delegates in a conference at the Municipality of Nea Smyrni, where project results regarding the transformation of #plasticpackaging into new materials were presented, followed by a panel discussion for ensuring the steps towards a #zerowaste society through #circulareconomy. You can now watch upPET’s full conference on https://lnkd.in/dDpsckjC (English translation) and  on https://lnkd.in/d4C6MJQF (Greek translation)  #H2020 #biodegradation #upcycling  Fuensanta Monzó Sánchez Angela Gaitani Ines Fritz Philipp Süss Cristiano Varrone (万思诺) Dr. Kristina Eissenberger Eri Bizani Margarita Karavasili Erik de Vries Ronald Zirbs Marianna Faraldi Fabiola De Toffol, PMP Aleksandra Branković Rosa María Martínez Espinosa Sarper Doğdu Filip Miketa Matilda Anastasiadi Ville Leminen Tony Lund Maria Aiello Siniša Borota Damiano Marinelli Ana Fuertes Giada Materazzo Ren Wei Friedemann Leipold Soumya Kanti Datta Federico Mesa Suarez Carmen Martínez Solozábal Pauli Hakala Uwe Bornscheuer Bora YESILTEPE Kari Heikkinen Fernanda D'Acosta Debolina Paul Nenad Jevtović 

📗Have you seen the interactive roadmap about the Key Exploitable Results in our training Programme? ♻This is an interactive and simplified approach to summarize how the main stakeholders from the plastic packaging industry will be impacted by the results achieved throughout the UPLIFT - PLASTICS project, developed with the general public in mind, to showcase the project to both expert and non-expert audiences. 👉Click here to navigate across the roadmap: https://lnkd.in/dgXxc8aP #upcycling #foodandbeverage #packaging #valuechain #recycling #polimers #circulareconomy Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

Globally, more than 460 million tons of plastic are produced yearly, of which only 9% is collected and recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, incinerators, or in nature ☠️. At Aalborg University, we address this immense challenge through the research and collaboration platform AAU Circular Plastics, and we are proud to announce that we have been acknowledged as a Key Innovator by the EU Innovation Radar program. The basis for the acknowledgment is the results achieved in the EU-funded UPLIFT - PLASTICS project, led by Associate Professor Cristiano Varrone (万思诺) from the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark. 🎤 I am very proud of this recognition! It proves that we are on the right track with our sustainable solutions, where we combine enzyme technology with microbial and chemical processes to upcycle plastic waste and turn it into sustainable products, he says. Being a key innovator means that the project is considered highly innovative, with business-ready products at a very high market value level 💚👏. The UPLIFT project, funded by the EU, aims to reduce the production of oil-based plastic products and simultaneously solve the major waste problem. The potential is huge: Using solutions from the UPLIFT project, the EU’s recycling rate of food packaging can be increased from 42% to 60% in the next ten years. This corresponds to an increase in recycled plastic waste by 3.24 million tons per year. Read more about the project 👉 https://lnkd.in/dq6Qm2nU Read more about the EU Innovation Radar 👉 https://lnkd.in/dE5gnhuN Visit AAU Circular Plastics 👉 https://lnkd.in/gz4NyeHC #aaudk #recycleplastics #dkforsk

📍Earlier this month, our coordinator entity Aalborg University showcased the UPLIFT - PLASTICS during the 2nd CARBIOS International Conference in Toulouse, France. ♻There, our project coordinator Cristiano Varrone (万思诺) gave a flash presentation about the enzymatic hydrolysis of Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF) using polyester hydrolases while VIRENDER KUMAR presented UPLIFT through a poster presentation. 🌐Read more about this event on our website: https://lnkd.in/dRautii2 #upcycling #foodandbeverage #packaging #valuechain #recycling #polimers #circulareconomy Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

♻️ Yesterday, our Project Coordinator Cristiano Varrone (万思诺) participated in the final conference of our related project upPE-T Project where he gave a presentation revolving around UPLIFT - PLASTICS biorefinery as well as the upcycling process we are conducting. 🎞️ Have a look at our website to know more and see the recording of the event: https://lnkd.in/dz2n3xjf Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

📍Did you know our upcoming General Assembly will take place in the RWTH Aachen University? 📹There, we will define the last actions of the project such as the scale-up and manufacturing processes and we will also conduct several video interviews with the work package leaders to compile the main findings for the final project video! 👁If this sounds interesting to you, stay tuned, and we will share a brief with you after the meeting! https://lnkd.in/e5n3fk3w #upcycling #foodandbeverage #packaging #valuechain #recycling #polimers #circulareconomy Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

🤝Last week, we participated in a joint workshop with PRESERVE H2020 BioSupPack upPE-T Project revolving around #UpcyclingPackaging. 🖥There, Alberto Barranca Jiménez, PhD from AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics showcased the UPLIFT - PLASTICS project by giving an oral presentation highlighting the innovative upcycling strategies conducted in the UPLIFT - PLASTICS project. No worries if you missed the session, you can find below our joint whitepaper Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)