Impacts

Recycling Technologies

Pushing the EU to the forefront in the area of raw materials processing and/or recycling technologies and solutions through generated know-how and promoting socially innovative solutions

Improving economic and market potential

Improving significantly the economic viability and market potential and creating added value and new jobs

Circular Economy

Unlocking a significant volume of various primary/secondary raw materials currently unexploited/underexploited within the EU, hence improving their ‘circularity’ in the economy and ultimately closing the material cycles

Health, safety & enviroment

SUNRISE will have a significant positive impact on environment, health and safety and will be monitored during the project by the LCA methodology

Sunrise Project will reduce

PVB incineration

PVB landfilling

Use of fossil fuels

Source of energy required for the production of virgin PVB

CO2 emissions and other pollutants during PVB production

Finally, the liquid waste streams of chemical treatment on SUNRISE project consist on non-complex wastes which can be treated under conventional schemes including washing water and spent acid/bases baths. In addition, reuse of the reagents is estimated in 56 cycles and the initial washing process in 280. This impact in water was also initially assessed during WS-REC project, where LCA inventory considered also the effluent treatment due to the usage and the replacement of the liquid agents, including the process of neutralization and wastewater treatment.