📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/07/2023
End Date: 30/06/2027
Total Eligible Budget: 3,522,879 €
EU Contribution: 2,113,727 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
Aluminium industry must face a definitive solution for the management of salt slag, included in the European Waste Catalogue as hazardous waste, to improve its still unperfected circularity. EU produces 1Mt/y of salt slag and its disposal is banned in most countries. Nowadays the management of salt-slag is a worldwide concern and its valorisation is not yet solved. Z-ONA4LIFE envisages a holistic approach to salt slag recovery for Circular Economy, European Green Deal and SDGs. It focuses on a new circular zeolite (Z-ONA) production technology, and its exploitation to overcome problems associated with the depuration of wastewaters and gas streams. Thus, the environment is improved twice: hazardous waste recovery & effluents depuration. Z-ONA4LIFE considers salt slag as secondary raw material and creates an opportunity for recovering waste from other industries. Z-ONA4LIFE aims to close the loop between waste generation, its treatment, development of valuable materials and their future market. Different environmental and economic factors are considered to select salt slag as raw material, viz. aluminium industry world relevance, huge salt slag volume, its hazardousness, high disposal cost, scarce recovery processes feasible on industrial scale.
