New grant CPNL soon to be announced
Grant for entrepreneurs and researchers active in or with circular high-value recycling, which reprocesses plastic waste into products, materials or substances.
The Circular Plastics NL scheme for 2025 aims to provide broad support for circular investments. Entrepreneurs and researchers with ideas for projects that solve bottlenecks in the plastics chain in the Netherlands can apply soon. This grant scheme with 4 generic research projects and 8 showcases will be put out for CPNL through Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) for innovative projects for subject* to the following topics:
Circular Plastics NL - Research Projects:
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- Microplastics
- Development of in-line analysis techniques for the purpose of sorting processes
- Automatic sorting of the waste stream of large plastic items
- The optimal chain for mixed plastic waste streams for recycling.
Circular Plastics NL - Showcases:
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- Mechanical recycling of polyolefin packaging
- Recycling of polyolefin food contact packaging
- Recycling of household or industrial plastic waste by dissolution
- Depolymerization
- Recycling of engineering plastics
- Recycling of soft PVC
- Carpet Recycling
- Thermochemical recycling of mixed plastic waste streams into new monomers for plastic production
* No rights can be derived from this information
Online more information
On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, Thursday, January 9 and January 16, 2025, we are hosting three online English-language information sessions on the upcoming open call.
To give everyone a chance, CPNL is organizing this meeting three times. We ask that you choose between:
- December 18 from 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
- January 9, 2025 from 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
- January 16, 2025 from 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
You will receive a link by email to participate via Teams.
In-person
Open Call launch & New Year's reception
- On Thursday, January 23, CPNL is hosting a New Year's reception in Utrecht where parties, companies and organizations interested in participating in the upcoming grant round are welcome to attend. In addition to New Year wishes, this meeting will focus on the launch with information and possible consortium formation of the open call together with RVO. Invitation and registration can be done here (from December 9). https://circularplasticsnl.org/agenda/lancering-nieuwjaarsreceptie2024/
Meet-up for recycling polyolefin (food contact) packaging and household or industrial plastic waste through dissolution
- On Thursday, Feb. 13, CPNL will host a Meet-up for food contact packaging in Gorinchem: https://circularplasticsnl.org/agenda/meetup-13022025/
1-1 Meetings & Matchmaking
- In the online community B2Match you can search for contacts and potential partners, make contact and schedule meetings. You can register at https://transition-to-circularity.b2match.io/. Already registered for B2Match? You can easily log in, match new contacts online and add online or physical sessions to your calendar. Not clear how it works? Check out the tutorials and FAQ here.
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