UPLIFT – Sustainable Plastics for the Food and Drink Packaging Industry

The idea is to integrate the fossil-based (depolymerized) plastic monomers with bio-based (fermented) building blocks, in order to obtain more carbon-neutral polymers. Eco-design of renewable and easy-recyclable eco-polymers will pave the way to a sustainable plastic system, making packaging an available feedstock for the circular economy, also thanks to a biorefinery approach. By keeping plastic waste in the loop and integrating biobased building blocks, instead of virgin fossil-based monomers, UPLIFT will reduce plastic waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions associated with its production.

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Project Coordinator 

• Aalborg University

Project Partners

• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology
• Technical University of Denmark
• Lunds University
• Tecnaro Gmbh
• Bio-Mi d.o.o
• Bio Base Euope Pilot Plant
•  Leibniz Institute für Natrustoff und infektionsbiologie – Hans Knöll Institut
• Associcion de investigación de Materiales Plasticos y Conexas
• University College Dublin
• Bioplatech Ltd.
• Sustainable Innovation Europe SL
• Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
• I/S Vestforbrænding