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Grass fibres can replace plastic as a 100% biodegradable and disposable material for packaging for take-away food. This is the goal of the new innovative project SinProPack, which aims to develop a sustainable alternative to the disposable plastics currently used for packaging.
The project is bringing together industry, consumers and knowledge institutions to develop, demonstrate, test and evaluate fibre-based packaging for to-go food via proof-of-concept, pilot-scale trials and industrial upscaling. Disposable packaging made of grass brings a lot of environmental benefits. The packaging will be 100% biodegradable, so if someone accidentally drops their packaging in nature, it will decompose naturally, says Anne Christine Steenkjær Hastrup, centre director at Danish Technological Institute, who is coordinating the project.
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A coalition of industry and academic leaders have developed a new technology which will deliver the final technological step toward enabling circularity for thermoset composites used to make wind turbine blades. To ensure its adoption, and to advance a circular economy across the wind industry, a new initiative entitled CETEC (Circular Economy for Thermoset Epoxy Composites) has been established. Within three years, CETEC is aiming to present a full-scoped solution ready for industrial adoption, based on commercialization of the novel technology.
Partly funded by Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD, Aarhus, Denmark), CETEC is spearheaded by Vestas (Aarhus), a sustainable energy solutions leader, and involves both industrial and academic leaders including Olin Corp. (Clayton, Miss., U.S.), producer of epoxy, the Danish Technological Institute (DTI, Taastrup, Denmark), and Aarhus University (Denmark).
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