TRANSFORM-CE
TRANSFORM-CE is a €6.93million Interreg North West Europe-funded project focuses on transforming single use plastic waste into value-added products and using two innovative technologies:
- additive manufacturing (AM)
- intrusion-extrusion moulding (IEM)
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Aim and objectives
By adopting a circular economy approach, TRANSFORM-CE aims to capture and return single use plastic to the system before it becomes waste or pollution. Manchester Metropolitan University is the lead organisation, bringing together researchers from the faculty of Science and Engineering, and Business and Law. They are joined by partners from across the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
TRANSFORM-CE is supported by the Interreg North West Europe programme as part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Research outputs of the programme to date
SOENECS outputs:
SOENECS ongoing work:
We are currenly researching collection mechanisms and their effectiveness of plastic waste capture accross the four reagions. The aim of the report is to conduct a comparative analysis exploring the different plastic collection systems implemented across Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The results obtained can help determine the effectiveness of plastic waste capture in each of the four regions, and secondly, comment on any potential additional mechanisms to increase the volume of plastic collected.
For more information please visit the project site
By adopting a circular economy approach, TRANSFORM-CE aims to capture and return single use plastic to the system before it becomes waste or pollution. Manchester Metropolitan University is the lead organisation, bringing together researchers from the faculty of Science and Engineering, and Business and Law. They are joined by partners from across the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
TRANSFORM-CE is supported by the Interreg North West Europe programme as part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
- TRANSFORM-CE marks a sea-change in the way plastics are recycled. The process will no longer be linear and limited to select higher value plastics. It will instead be truly circular, with plastics of all value looped into an infinite cycle of reuse and recycle.
- TRANSFORM-CE will return recycled plastics to the same or better quality products than they were originally. In this case more valuable and useful 3D printing feedstock.
Research outputs of the programme to date
- Diversion of 308.2 tonnes of plastic waste from landfill and incineration over the course of the project
- Take up of IEM/AM technology by 20 NW Europe businesses to embed recycled municipal plastic into the design and manufacture of new and existing products
- Establishment of an Research and Development Centre in the UK and a Prototyping Unit in Belgium (AM)
- Establishment of a pilot plant, the ‘Green Plastic Factory’, in the Netherlands (IEM)
- Publication of a Circular Economy Plastic Roadmap
- A series of webinars and stakeholder workshops
- Production of education materials
- Academic papers, reports and other research outputs will be linked from here when they are published.
SOENECS outputs:
- Overview of the UK waste management system for collection and disposal - see PDF at the bottom of the page
SOENECS ongoing work:
We are currenly researching collection mechanisms and their effectiveness of plastic waste capture accross the four reagions. The aim of the report is to conduct a comparative analysis exploring the different plastic collection systems implemented across Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The results obtained can help determine the effectiveness of plastic waste capture in each of the four regions, and secondly, comment on any potential additional mechanisms to increase the volume of plastic collected.
For more information please visit the project site
