In-No-Plastic (Innovative approaches towards prevention, removal and reuse of marine plastic litter) is a three year EU funded project contributing to the Mission Ocean & waters objectives, in particular to objective 2 through the development and demonstration of nano-, micro-, and macro-plastic clean-up technologies in the aquatic ecosystems.
The approach taken is a combination of social and technical strategies targeting the industrial hot spots through cooling water systems (CWS), harbours, lagoons, shores and shallow seawater. The technical approach consists of comparing the existing plastics removal methodologies with multiple developing technologies at varying testing sites in Europe and in the Caribbean.
The social strategy comprises an incentive-based initiative that relies on a crowdsourcing application. The focus is to get the local population involved by incentivising plastic recovery in return for monetary compensation and other rewards.
Furthermore, In-No-Plastic entails a comprehensive monitoring system to gather data at frequencies of every 6 months for 2 years. This is done to understand the effectiveness of the new technologies and current clean-up approaches both in terms of cutting down plastic presence in the environment and its effects on the marine and local ecosystems. This technical proposal will be a blueprint in establishing a coherent and synchronised system of cleaning, that is scalable and replicable.
Part of the plastic gathered at the demo sites will be treated for reusability by investigating different recycling methods, leading to the inter-connectedness of the processes in acquiring plastic waste and creating circularity in the value chain.
The complementary consortium of 17 partners from 10 different countries, includes 2 research institutions, 2 Government bodies, 4 industry end-users, 2 NGOs, 7 SMEs of which 4 technology and 3 service providers.
- Name of organisation
- SINTEF AS
- Type of organisation
- Research and academia
- Type of action proposed
- Research and innovation
- The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
- Protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversityPrevent and eliminate pollution of our ocean, seas and watersOcean and waters knowledge systemPublic mobilisation and engagement
- List of Partners
SINTEF AS, Empower AS, ArcelorMittal Belgium NV, Probotica DOO, Ponikve Eko Otok Krk Doo Za Komunalne Djelatnosti, Sensum DOO, Electricite de France EDF, NB GMBH, Venice Lagoon Plastic Free, BlueXprt BV, Dow Benelux BV, FishFlow Innovations, H2O Biofouling Solutions, Uniper Benelux, Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance, Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, The Rivers Trust
- Start date of the action
- End date of the action
- Budget allocated for the action
- 7430636
- Basin coverage
- Baltic/North Sea
- Website link
- ben.alcock@sintef.no
- Country
- CroatiaFranceItalyNetherlands