The ECLIPSE project focuses on the research of novel technological routes for the recycling and valorization of complex polymeric waste, representing a disruptive advance over the current state of the art in terms of separation, recycling, purification, and chemical synthesis of building blocks that enable the production of new, highquality recycled polymers, offering an alternative to mechanical recycling where it is not feasible.
This objective will be achieved through research into processes for separation and identification of complex polymeric waste, hybrid thermal, chemical, and biotechnological recycling technologies, isolation and purification processes for chemical units of high industrial interest, synthesis of specialty chemicals, polymer formulations, and product ecodesigns.
Furthermore, the technological transversality provided by ECLIPSE across the various recycling processes addressed will allow a significant improvement in sustainable development and the circular economy within the plastics sector, through the minimization of generated waste, reduction of energy costs, and decrease in CO₂ emissions.
TÉCNICAS REUNIDAS (TR), leader of the ECLIPSE proposal, will focus on new innovative plastic recycling processes based on microwave pyrolysis technology, including the thermal treatment of plastic waste streams, as well as the separation and purification of solid, liquid, and gaseous output streams, enabling the recovery of valuable compounds.