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Author: Aimee Forcada In recent years, the circular economy has gained importance and momentum at the European level and is considered an essential means to fight climate change in the Green Deal and European funding programmes. One of the goals of FRONTSH1P is to...
Authors: Agnieszka Sitarz & Łukasz Waszak In 2021, the average European collected 530kg of garbage (the average in Poland is slightly lower, 358kg). At the same time, selective collection accounted for about 50% of the total amount of waste. The reuse of waste as...
Authors: Mateusz Imiela & Kamil Maszczyk The Technology of the Foaming Process Elastomeric foams, compared to foams made from thermoplastics in general, have unique properties like tensile strength leading to their widespread use, higher flexibility, energy...
Authors: Alberto Reis & Rafał Łukasik The FRONTSH1P project contains 4 major Circular Systemic Solutions (CSSs) strongly linked to each other. All CSSs create a circular value chain within each CSSs as well as in the cross-cutting approach, i.e., on a higher level...
Authors: Alberto Reis, Luísa Gouveia & Rafał Łukasik The partners and other stakeholders involved in FRONTHSH1P CSS3 will be challenged with several potential threats to the well-timed progress of the project. The challenges brought by CSS3 can be summarised in...
Author: Fabio Magrassi Wastewater and CO2-rich gases are important environmental concerns that can have significant impacts on human health and the planet’s ecosystems. The characterisation of these materials is crucial for understanding their properties and for...
Author: Fabio Magrassi Microalgae can remove nutrients from wastewater, such as phosphorous (P) and nitrogen (N), which are major contributors to eutrophication. Eutrophication is a process in which bodies of water become overloaded with nutrients, leading to...
Authors: Alberto Reis, Luisa Gouveia & Rafał Łukasik The development of civilization triggered the increase in energy consumption (especially fossil fuels), and so does the output of greenhouse gases (GHG) by industries and other anthropogenic activities,...
Authors: Luisa Gouveia, Rafał Łukasik & Alberto Reis The “big” numbers from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (2022) point out that by 2050, the growing population will require 60% more food, the agriculture yields will be reduced by more than...
Busto Arsizio, 18th October 2022 In the framework of our FRONTSH1P project, eight representatives of a Polish company that is to build a wet waste treatment and disposal plant, and a consortium of municipalities, visited Busto Arsizio and the city’s waste collection...
