Welcome to paperChain
Innovative new circular business models
Most of the current waste streams generated by the Pulp & Paper industry (PPI) are currently disposed to landfills or burnt for energy production. Inorganic wastes are basically used as cement raw material and to a lesser extent as soil amendment in forestry applications. These solutions have a low added value and are dependent on the existence of cement kilns and acid soils in the vicinity of the mills, reducing their potential valorisation. Although there is extensive academic research on the waste valorisation to enhance the utilization of paper mill waste streams, there is still a lack of alternatives proved at real scale under operational conditions.
Paperchain is a demonstrative project that proposes innovative applications for different underused PPI waste streams, proving their technical, economic and environmental feasibility in five circular business models through real scale pilots.The project aims at unlocking the situation that hinders the proposed solutions to reach the market, including not only technical issues, but legal, social and economic factors.
To overcome these barriers, the project has involved the whole value chain and provides transparency of their outcomes, being public awareness a priority.
paperChain at a glance
The overall objective of PAPERCHAIN is to deploy five novel circular economy models centred in the valorisation of the waste streams generated by the Pulp and Paper Industry (PPI) as secondary raw material for a number of resource intensive sectors: construction sector, mining sector and chemical industry.
The Project
The Consortium
Circular Cases
REAL SCALE DEMONSTRATORS
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The paperChain project launches the third pilot in La Font de la Figuera variant (Valencia) to improve the sustainability of roads by implementing ashes
This third pilot, consisting of the execution of 500 m linear soil-cement layer on a service track of the La Font de la Figuera motorway, Valencia, will demonstrate the feasibility of completely replacing cement with fly ash coming from the energy recovery of...
ISWA 2019
The ISWA World Congress 2019 is a global event focused on sustainable waste management, circular economy and resource efficiency. Several themes were discussed during the event, such as: new & smart technologies, landfills and closing dumpsites, waste management...
Paperchain Project” is awarded with the prize for BEST INNOVATION in the 26th Abu Dhabi World Road Congress
The paper “Alternative secondary raw materials for road construction, based on Pulp and Paper industry reject. Paperchain Project” is awarded with the prize for BEST INNOVATION in the 26th Abu Dhabi World Road Congress The paper was co-authored by a team from the...
Green Transformation Program (Madrid)
The intention of the workshop is to bring together existing EU partners with the global students so that they may share their respective projects, approaches, objectives, result obtained, and exchange best practices. During the presentation, ACCIONA covered different...