SINTEF projects

Ocean Plastic Turned into an Opportunity in Circular Economy

COASTAL (Collaborative Land-Sea Integration Platform) formulates and evaluates business solutions and policy recommendations aimed at improving the coastal-rural synergy to foster rural and coastal development while preserving the environment.

Examining the utilisation of waste nutrients from fish farming for the cultivation of bristle worms (Polychaeta) as raw material for feed.

This project will make composite products more economically competitive, safer and more sustainable by addressing two shortcomings of composite products. 1) By developing methods for damage detection, we can increase safety and product lifetime...

PlastiCircle aims to develop and implement a holistic process to increase recycling rates of packaging waste in Europe. This will allow to reprocess plastic waste in the same value chain. This process is based on collection, transport, sorting, and...

To understand the environmental behaviour and impacts of microplastic fibres (MPFs) in order to develop a decision support framework that enables garment manufacturers to make environmentally informed choices in their material selection.

The ReGenWool project focused on chemical recycling of low-grade wool and post-consumer wool waste, and utilizing the recycled materials to generate new materials.

The PLATIRUS project aims at reducing the European deficit of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), by upscaling to industrial relevant levels a novel cost-efficient and miniaturised PGMs recovery and raw material production process. The Platinum Group...

The ERIFORE will realize the European potential to consolidate its place as a world leader in biomass based research and innovations. ERIFORE builds on a new firm alliance aiming to establish open access distributed forest bioeconomy research...

The amount of plastic litter, especially microplastics, in the ocean are quickly accumulating. The PLASTOX-project aims to investigate the environmental impacts resulting from microplastics.

The main goal of REE4EU is to realize a breakthrough in securing the availability of rare earth elements in Europe, providing for the first time a cost effective and efficient method of extraction and direct Rare Earth Alloys production route from...

CABRISS aims at pioneering a circular economy dedicated to handle the critical situation of recycling the important amount of photovoltaic waste and benefiting also to electronics, metallurgy and glass industries.

SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, along with 15 partners, will develop multi-functional packaging solutions to improve the properties and performance.