Acronym CiVaCh
Category
Aquaculture
Title Local circular value chains for recycling of plastics waste from the fish farming industry Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Camilla Sommerseth Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - Kvarøy Fish Farming AS (Norway) ,
NA - Kystinkubatoren AS (Norway) ,
NCP - Nordic Comfort Products AS (Norway) ,
SINTEF - SINTEF (Norway) ,
NA - Østbø AS (Norway) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2023 Funding (€) € 378,800 Website https://novasea.no/en/local-circular-value-chains-for-recycling-of-plastics-waste-from-the-fish-farming-industry/ Summary The Norwegian fish farming industry are producing approximately 20 000 tonnes of plastic waste each year from fodder hoses, net cage rings and ropes. This plastic waste is mostly deposited or used as an energy recovery today. In this project the aim is to move away from deposit and energy recovery towards producing new products, create sustainable circular value chains and increase the material recycling from 0 % up to 75 %. The consortium is locally rooted at Helgeland and consist of Nova Sea AS, Kvarøy Fiskeoppdrett AS, Kystinkubatoren AS, Østbø AS, Nordic Comfort Products AS (NCP), SINTEF Norlab AS, SINTEF Nord AS and SINTEF Helgeland AS, but if successful can have an impact on the plastics waste issue for the entire fish farming industry in Norway. Nova Sea and Kvarøy represent the fish farming industry. The situation today is that the tonnage of plastics waste only represents an expense and a problem for the fish farming industry, however, this project aims at creating a business opportunity replacing a problem. Kystinkubatoren at Lovund and Østbø in Mo i Rana represent the key for making the plastic waste recyclable into other products: they will each test a pilot line for cleaning and pellets-making for traceable and non-traceable waste material, respectively. NCP will produce new plastic products out of the pellets produced by the two pilot lines. SINTEF Nord and SINTEF Helgeland have R&D competence and will contribute with waste stream surveys, life cycle analysis (LCA), analysis of the waste and research on how to increase traceability of the plastics waste from cradle towards rebirth as new products. SINTEF Norlab will contribute with its knowledge within analysis techniques for quality assurance of the waste streams. The project represents an exciting opportunity for giving new life to a substantial amount of waste material, that today are deposited or used for energy recovery, into new products.
Keywords
Technology;
Waste valorization;
Waste management;
Open sea aquaculture;
Marine Region
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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