CIRCTHREAD project aims to provide the information that the user needs so that electrical appliances remain in the economic circuit for longer. Access to critical information about each individual device can help in this process.
The project’s objective is to unlock access to data and enhancing it as decision information for actors across and outside the extended product life cycle. To do this CircThread will deliver a Circular Digital Thread methodology, a framework for facilitating information flow exchanges across the extended life cycle chain of Products, Components, their Materials and Chemicals data, and related Circularity, Environmental, Social and Economic Information.
United Circles, which involves 46 partners from 14 countries and an international organisation (UNITAR), seeks to transform various types of urban waste into useful resources by applying the concept of industrial-urban symbiosis.
The main objective of the project is to maximise efficiency in the use of material and energy resources to move towards more circular city-industry ecosystems.
To achieve this, United Circles will work with three value chains: construction and demolition waste, urban and industrial wastewater, and food waste. In each case, innovative conversion and recovery solutions will be developed. For example, construction waste will be used in the construction of a 3D printed building using low-carbon cement; wastewater treatment plants will be converted into water, energy and material recovery centres; and used cooking oil will be recycled into bioplastics.
These three symbiotic ecosystems will be integrated into respective ‘Circularity Hubs’ that will facilitate the expansion and financing of these technologies at regional level, in order to promote their large-scale adoption and make cities and their industrial environments more sustainable.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101178798.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 958448