20. 2. 2023
The Granting Authority approved the project in a special call within the National Recovery Plan
On 20 February 2023, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA) approved, as the granting authority, the project (project ID: TN02000051/001N) entitled Polymer Marking System for Digital Waste Sorting System, which was proposed by the consortium of the National Competence Centre – Polymer Materials and Technologies for the 21st Century (NCC) for the special call of the National Recovery Plan.
Dr. Lubomír Kubáč from the Centre for Organic Chemistry is the chief investigator, who said: “The aim is to create a system for marking polymer materials to enable automatic sorting of waste plastics and textiles. Markers will be designed that will not interfere with the visual perception of the labelled product and at the same time be identifiable by simple analytical methods. These markers will be modified so that they can be printed on the surface of plastic products or incorporated directly into the material during the production of textiles and plastics.”
The project’s co-investigators are the clusters schp.cz and plastr.cz, universities: Brno University of Technology, University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Tomas Bata University in Zlín and private companies – Fortemix produkce, Inotex, NANOPROGRESS, Simple Engineering and ZODPA.
The main NCC’s objective is to integrate scientific research results into the practice. The members of the NCC are universities and industrial companies in the field of environmental and polymer technologies, as well as professional clusters, which have the task of linking the private and research sectors. The result will be, for example, patents, semi-operation models or utility models/technologies that bring end-users closer to 21st-century technologies.
This project entitled Polymer Marking System for a Digital Waste Sorting System is co-funded through the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic under the National Recovery Plan from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
