ROOTS - Circular policies for changing the biowaste system

Open Res Eur. 2023 May 16;3:78. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.15507.1. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTThe circular economy has a huge potential to make our societies more sustainable and decarbonised, with a reduced impact on the planet's resources. The deployment of innovative solutions in the field of urban biowaste valorisation and reuse is still hindered by numerous bottlenecks, such as technological readiness, funding and financing tools availability, quality and quantity of biowaste and regulatory barriers. The European Green Deal and associated legislative initiatives provide the opportunity to overcome the last ones. To promote innovative solutions for the European circular bioeconomy and help to overcome the barriers for the deployment of a circular bioeconomy, five Horizon 2020 projects working on biowaste valorisation have teamed up. This joint initiative is named ROOTS - circulaR pOlicies for changing the biOwasTe System. The projects HOOP, VALUEWASTE, SCALIBUR, WaysTUP! and CITYLOOPS are piloting new solutions to transform urban biowaste (food waste and green waste) and wastewater into valuable products like feed, fertilisers, bioplastics, biopesticides, proteins and bioethanol. They use different processes and technologies, but they all rely on high levels of recycling/upcycling and propose valorisation solutions relevant to the uptake of a truly circular bioeconomy. As a result of the work performed and experience acquired, a number of bottlenecks have been identified,...

Source: Cell Research - August 30, 2023 Category: Cytology Authors: Miguel Ángel Suárez Elisa Gambuzzi Jos é M Soriano Disla Gemma Castej ón Giulio Poggiaroni James Ling Source Type: research