Abstract
(Englisch)
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STOPP aims to STOP the ways that lead to environmental pollution, use of unsustainable virgin fossils, excess use of resources, highlevels of generated plastic waste, incineration and landfilling, and climate change. We aim to do this by producing strategies for circularfood plastic packaging with Refuse, Reduce, Redesign, Reuse and Recycle approaches. Our goal is to enhance sustainable and circularuse of plastic food packaging and decrease the amount of generated waste while reducing the environmental impact. This is achieved viadevelopment and implementation of circular strategies together with an extensive network of plastics packaging value chain stakeholders,and citizens and consumers. Increased knowledge on the environmental and climate impacts of food packaging systems is a key driver inchanging perception of reuse and recycling. We will quantify the effect of littered plastic food packaging on the environment with analysisof different ecosystems, biological organizational levels and key sentinel organisms. This deeper understanding is an important parttogether with different state-of-the-art and comprehensive enablers and barriers analysis for the technological developments, businessstrategies and consumer studies done in the project. Our technological approaches for reuse focus on safe and high-performance materialdevelopment, improving return logistics, and developing consumer-centric communication strategies. For recycling, we will optimizecollection systems, create safe food contact polyolefin recyclates, recycle bio-based and smart food packaging, and expand PlasticsRecyclers Europe’ RecyClass certification scheme for recyclability. STOPP has a key role in supporting the Packaging and PackagingWaste Regulation implementation in its early stages via the developed novel solutions, providing new open access knowledge and handsontools for the value chain actors to start-up their sustainable circular food packaging journey as early adaptors.
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