IMT Lille Douai and ARMINES partners of Interreg PlastiCity's project

• Budget : € 9.45 Million
• Duration: 45 months (January 2019 – September 2022)

Overall objective 

The objective of the PlastiCity project is to develop replicable strategies and solutions that are able to increase recycling rates in urban environments from 20-30% to over 50% by unlocking the use of ‘lost plastics’ as secondary resources from the urban environment. Additional objectives are:

• Develop technical strategies for (reverse) logistics and reprocessing
• Inducing behavioral change and creating capacity of stakeholders such as local governments and companies through urban platforms
• Demonstrate this in 4 case study cities in the 2Seas area (Ghent (BE), Den Haag (NL), Southend On Sea (UK) and Douai (FR)
• Creating new value chains and designing new products, amongst others by unlocking the full potential of ‘medium’ size actors (SME’s, offices, retail, schools, etc.)
• Deploy a mobile unit for testing, demonstration and sensitisation
• Create business activity and employment in the circular economy (100-400 jobs)

Main Outputs

The main project output is a strategy to create PlastiCity hubs to significantly increase the recycling rates lost plastics in urban environments in the 2Seas region. Such a hub is defined as a local network of relevant partners and physical infrastructure, supported by a digital environment/Urban Platform

We also deliver:

• A methodology to deliver tailored solutions for logistics and lumping waste streams with optimized balance between quantity and quality of plastic collection and reprocessing
• A replicable model to create capacity for plastics in the circular economy through urban platforms (with digital data management) and new business models
• Demonstration and implementation of the Plasticity approach in 4 case study areas with the development of 4 new value chains with business cases, the design of 4 new products and first investments to actually start up (parts) of the hub
• A mobile unit that is used for testing, demonstration and sensitisation in the 4 case study areas

Lead partner 

• Stad Gent 
  
  

Project partners 

• Universiteit Gent
• Southend on Sea Borough Council
• Van Werven België bvba
• Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus Industriels (ARMINES)
• D.P.L. Group Plastic Recycling
• Theys Recyclage
• University of Portsmouth
• Gemeente Den Haag
• Team2
• Metabolic B.V.
• GRCT
• WeLOOP

Contact persons

Scientific contact : Mrs Marie-France LACAMPE
marie-france.lacrampe@imt-lille-douai.fr

AFC contact : Mr Philippe Perceval
philippe.perceval@mines-paristech.fr