Mobilizing Agenda for Sustainable Plastics

The SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS project intends to be the Mobilizing Agenda for Sustainable Plastics in Portugal, capable of leveraging the sector’s transition to a truly circular economy and mobilizing the private sector, national authorities, universities, and citizens, contributing to the objectives of the European Circular Economy.

The initiative is based on three pillars:

• The reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
• Greater resource efficiency
• Job creation

Given the complexity of the Plastics Industry value chain, which involves a very large number of Stakeholders (e.g. producers of plastic materials and raw materials, transformers, machine and equipment manufacturers, brand owners, retailers and distributors, waste management, among many others), it has become essential to promote the creation of an innovation ecosystem capable of involving all these economic agents, as well as consumers, in order to address the challenges that the Circular Economy presents.

Objectives

The objectives of SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS are:

• Introduce 21 innovative products to the market – which add value to the Circular Economy of Plastics and consumers 36 new patents – recording technological and scientific progress
• Publications of a scientific nature – sharing knowledge nationally and internationally
• 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associated with production processes

It is expected that by December 2025, this Agenda will involve around 427 highly qualified human resources in the fields of science, engineering, and technology, promote more than 80 training actions and allow the creation of new jobs.

Consortium

The Consortium for this project, an APIP initiative, and led by Logoplaste Innovation Lab, brings together 39 Companies and 10 Non-Business Entities from the Scientific and Technological System, with the objective of covering all segments and subsectors of the Plastics Industry and responding to the main challenges faced by agents of this new Extended Value Chain. Thus, organizations were selected that, benefiting from technical, organizational, and technological capacities and competencies, allow responding to the sector’s ambitious goals and objectives of the transition to the Circular Economy, also contributing to a more dynamic, exporting, and highly qualified Portugal.

SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS proposes a global investment of €39,161,831.64 (thirty-nine million, one hundred and sixty-one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-one euros and sixty-four cents) and will receive a national contribution of €24,447,875 €.19 (twenty-four million, four hundred and forty-seven thousand, eight hundred and seventy-five euros and nineteen cents), and will be completed and with results achieved by December 31, 2025.