Search results: “repescaplas”
The project RepescaPlas ‘Material recovery of plastic wastes collected from the sea: characterisation, applications and product development’ is born to find a solution to the marine wastes and their negative effect on the marine environment, transforming the plastic fraction waste removed with help from fishermen, into new products that can enter the market. The beginning […]
Published date: 27/07/2018 – 07:32
AIMPLAS emphasises the importance of continuing to remove plastics from the sea on World Oceans Day, held on 8th June. The presence of litter in seas and oceans is a problem that moves forward in parallel to the industrial economic development of society, which is of increasing concern. A very visible part of this contamination […]
Published date: 08/06/2022 – 12:36
One of the societal challenges being addressed by AIMPLAS in its activities is the drive to make progress towards the circular economy, a production model fully supported by the European Commission that aims to meet citizen concerns on environmental sustainability. This focus on the circular economy is also in line with the United Nations Sustainable […]
Published date: 19/05/2021 – 13:03
In the two years since the RepescaPlas project was started, five tonnes of marine litter have been recovered. The project, now moving into its third phase, expects to obtain new products from this litter through pyrolysis.
Published date: 25/03/2020 – 14:09
