Ecodesign guidelines for circular plastics in WEEE, ELV and CDW
Ecodesign guidelines for circular plastics in WEEE, ELV and CDW are collected into NONTOX Ecodesign web pages.
Publications and other articles
Can plastics from end-of-life vehicles be managed in a sustainable way?
The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (UNIVAN) published a study showing the results of an environmental LCA that analyses the impact of the adoption of NONTOX innovations for the recycling of End-of-Life vehicles (ELV) plastic, whose intrinsic value is currently wasted (sent to landfill or incineration). More in details, the studied processes include different technologies: …
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NONTOX Booklet: a guideline to support stakeholders complying with legislative requirements
Within the WP5 – Framework analysis and activities to enhance recycling activities, a summary document presenting the legislative and policy context affecting the recycling of plastic has been prepared. The booklet presents the regulatory framework and operational environment (including directives and standards) currently in place for the three waste streams studied in the NONTOX projects: …
NONTOX Policy Brief
During the Horizon Result Booster activities, NONTOX elaborated a Policy Brief report as part of our joint collaboration together with the H2020 projects Circular Flooring, CREAToR, REACT and PLAST2bCLEANED. The current policy frame for plastics recycling have been analyzed and a series of recommendations propose. The document showcases to policymakers and to key decision-makers “An EU Joint Approach …
How to enhance the environmental sustainability of WEEE plastics management: An LCA study
The project partner UNIVAN (Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli) wrote a paper that quantifies the environmental performances of the NONTOX innovations by an attributional Life Cycle Assessment. NONTOX approach dedicated to plastics from waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) includes innovations on sorting, dissolution/precipitation, extrusion, catalytic pyrolysis, and plastic upgrading. The NONTOX …
Eco-innovation: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society
Under the leadership of the Horizon Results Booster Service, the NONTOX project has joined forces with the EU funded projects CREAToR, REACT, Circular Flooring and PLAST2beCLEANED to boost the European market for recycled plastic and to enable the transition towards a green economy and society.
Recycling Potential for Non-Valorized Plastic Fractions from Electrical and Electronic Waste
NONTOX project partner FRA (Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV) together with TUM (Technical University of Munich) wrote a paper to characterize the composition of plastics deriving from the waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). In detail, the study aims at characterizing plastic fractions from Electrical and Electronic Equipment currently excluded from recycling …
The role of plastic recyclates upgrade into safe products in the challenge of supporting circularity and the application of larger volumes of recyclates
Authors: Carlos Barreto, Hany Anwar Norner (Norway); Jani Pelto, VTT (Finland); Mathilde Taveau Coolrec (Netherlands); Vicent Martinez AIMPLAS (Spain); Nazarena Vincenti, Erion (Italy); Teppo Vienamo University of Aalto (Finland)
Is the European Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment plastics management really sustainable?
In March 2021, a member of NONTOX consortium, “Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli”, published a scientific paper on Waste Management, one of the most important peer review journal in the area of resource recovery from wastes. The study evaluated the environmental performances of the European management of plastics deriving from Waste of Electrical …
NONTOX – Behind the scenes of WEEE, ELV and CDW waste mapping exercise to support circular economy of plastics
In this blog post, Anna Tenhunen tells about a feedstock mapping exercise that was carried out to evaluate the volumes and current treatment routes for WEEE, ELV and CDW plastics in Europe, and to identify the plastic waste streams that are not currently recycled or are otherwise potential for the NONTOX project.
Publication: Legacy additives in a circular economy of plastics: Current dilemma, policy analysis, and emerging countermeasures
NONTOX partner FRA (Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV) together with TUM (Technical University of Munich) has written a review paper of the current situation about the legacy additives in plastic waste streams, their end-of-life treatment options related to legislation covering these additives and links between regulation and waste management. The article is …
