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Local circular economy by an innovative approach for recycling paper industry pulper waste into new plastic pallets (LIFE ECO-PULPLAST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Background Europe is among the world’s largest producers and consumers of pulp, paper, and cardboard. More specifically, the Lucca paper district is the largest European industrial cluster with an overall production of 1.2 million tonnes of tissue paper and 950 000 tonnes of paper for packaging (75% and 40% of the total Italian production respectively). ...
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Development of sustainable protein-based paper and paperboard coating systems to increase the recyclability of food and beverage packaging materials (BIO-BOARD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Worldwide about 7 million tonnes of coated paper, paperboard and cardboard (cartons) are currently manufactured annually mainly for food and beverage packaging. The standard coating material currently used is petrochemical-based polyethylene (PE). Typical laminate packaging contains about 20% of this material. Increased political, legislative and consumer pressure to reduce the dependency on fossi ...
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