Efficient sorting and recycling of dry-formed fiber products for e-commerce in Europe
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Blue Ocean Closures AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 950 000 |
| Project duration | November 2024 - April 2026 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Climate-neutral e-commerce |
| Call | Climate-neutral e-commerce - Conversion to a sustainable e-commerce with a focus on sustainable packaging systems, return handling and delivery locations |
Purpose and goal
The project aims to further develop and optimize dry fiber packaging for e-commerce. The focus is on ensuring that these products can be sorted and recycled effectively in various European recycling systems and thus compete with and replace plastic. The goal is to develop screw caps, lids and protective packaging that work in both manual and automatic sorting facilities and thereby reduce the carbon footprint from the packaging by 50-80%.
Expected effects and result
Expected results from the project is to, from sorting and recycling studies, create design criteria for sustainable dry sintered fiber-based packaging for e-commerce that can be efficiently sorted and recycled in Europe. These packages can replace equivalent products in plastic and reduce the carbon footprint by 50-80%. Increase recovery rate in tested systems by 20 % through training of machine learning software. The results will be disseminated to all interested actors.
Planned approach and implementation
The project includes 5 work packages, 1) Project management 2) Consumer study, tests to understand how fiber-based packaging is handled in real collection systems. 3) Testing of packaging prototypes in demonstration facilities to ensure their compatibility with automatic sorting processes. 4) Design for recycling, iterative development process, prototypes are created, tested and continuously improved 5) Results dissemination, in scientific articles, reports and presentations.