The Agència Valenciana de la Innovació (Valencia Agency for Innovation, AVI) approved the concession of the BIOFAST Strategic Partnership Project (INNEST/2022/295) to the Material Technology and Sustainability (MATS) research group from the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Technical School of Engineering at the University of Valencia in collaboration with the Technological Institute of Plastics (AIMPLAS) and the Valencian technological based company, Prime Biopolymers.
The main goal of the BIOFAST project is to develop a protocol that accelerates the biodegradation of bioplastics at the end of their use cycle within the area of industrial composting. To this end, work will be done, on the one hand, to improve the degradation substrate and, on the other hand, in the application of pre-treatments that weaken the structure of these materials and thus favour biodegradation.
The results of this project will be the necessary seed to spur the work on scaling up the proposed processes to real composting environments. Reducing the biodegradation time of bioplastics in composting plants will generate important economic and environmental impacts on society, in accordance with the guidelines set by the circular economy.
This is an action co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund in the Valencian Region from 2021 to 2027 with the aim of “promoting quality technological development, innovation and research," for which the aid granted amounts to 158,843.24 euros for a duration of three years.
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