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Collaborative project: Organic farm-ice cream in recyclable plastic packaging from agricultural residues - Subproject B (BUSINESS)
Project
Project code: 281A704B20
Contract period: 01.12.2022
- 30.11.2025
Budget: 77,729 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: multi-cycle systems, remote/e-trading, oil and fibre plants, value chains, articles of daily use, packaging, food safety
The BUSINESS project aims to produce polyethylene furanoate (PEF)-based and recyclable food packaging made from agricultural residues for the distribution of organic ice cream of a direct agricultural seller and to establish it on the market. To date, the regional organic product can only be adequately packaged in conventional fossil polystyrene (PS)-based plastic disposable cups and is an example of food products that will not be covered by the ban on single-use packaging in the future. The market for regional organic ice cream is a premium niche market whose packaging needs for representative tests of initial product samples in relevant application environments can be served during the project with the production capacities of the participating research institutions and innovatively recycled within the project. BUSINESS aims to increase visibility of biobased, recyclable PEF packaging for sensitive food products and, at the same time, to gain insights into the expected consumer acceptance and the potential of PEF packaging for sensitive food products and potential total market volume. PEF is a highly recyclable and highly functional plastic whose production, using the Hohenheim biorefinery concept, also allows the nutrients previously fixed in the initial biomass to be returned to the field, so that a circular bioeconomy along the entire value chain can be exemplarily demonstrated in the project. Nutrient cycles are closed locally and the carbon that is bound in the end-product is kept in the cycle for as long as possible through recycling. The optimization of material and energy management is carried out in the project through simulation-based value engineering and the determination of the overall life cycle assessment of the PEF-based ice cream packaging. At the end of the project, the PEF-based ice cream packaging should have reached the stage of a prototype in use (TRL 7).
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- Resource management
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Associated projects: BUSINESS
- Collaborative project: Organic farm-ice cream in recyclable plastic packaging from agricultural residues - Subproject A
- Collaborative project: Organic farm-ice cream in recyclable plastic packaging from agricultural residues - Subproject C
- Collaborative project: Organic farm-ice cream in recyclable plastic packaging from agricultural residues - Subproject D
- Collaborative project: Organic farm-ice cream in recyclable plastic packaging from agricultural residues - Subproject E
