UPSTREAM: Circular and Bio-Based Solutions for the Ultimate Prevention of Plastics in Rivers Integrated with Elimination And Monitoring Technologies

UPSTREAM通过克服与垃圾（L）、塑料（P）和微塑料（MP）的监测、预防、消除和稳定相关的挑战来实现使命的目标。展示一套14个解决方案，解决与5个国家的7条河流相连的水系统中每一步的污染问题，将有助于共同创建一个广泛的知识和可持续商业模式数据库，重点是尽可能广泛地提供信息。污水处理厂（WWTP）所有者、现有供应链的工业合作伙伴、创新型中小企业和水集群协会的参与将确保项目解决方案的利用，而50万欧元的级联资金将加强整个欧洲的复制。因此，UPSTREAM联盟将建立循环价值链，有可能减少50%的塑料垃圾和30%的MP污染。UPSTREAM的进步基于世界上最好的创新，包括：·标准化的快速监测技术，能够检测到尺寸小于25 µm的MP。可生物降解塑料，可阻止消费品和污水处理厂本身中MP的形成·从污泥和污水流中消除污水处理厂中90%以上的MP·创新的浮动平台能够去除>83%的L，·通过先进的分馏、解聚和生物转化从回收塑料中生产相关单体UPSTREAM代表一个泛欧财团，在欧洲拥有5个示范点，包括4个污水处理厂（英国、ES、DE、IT），以及塞尔维亚多瑙河上的一个测试区。该联盟由欧洲顶级RTO、可持续生物塑料开发的全球领导者Novamont加强，并由致力于创建数字知识共享平台并与公民和利益相关者互动的合作伙伴完成。

UPSTREAM addresses the targets of the Mission by overcoming challenges related to the monitoring, prevention, elimination, and valorisation of litter (L), plastics (P), and microplastics (MP). Demonstrating a suite of 14 solutions addressing pollution at every step in the water system, connected to 7 rivers in 5 countries, will enable the co-creation of an extensive database of knowledge and sustainable business models with a focus on making information as widely accessible as possible. The involvement of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) owners, industrial partners with existing supply chains, innovative SMEs, and a water cluster association will ensure exploitation of the project solutions, while €500k in cascade funding will enhance replication across Europe. The UPSTREAM consortium will thus establish circular value chains with the potential to decrease plastic litter by 50% and MP pollution by 30%. The advances in UPSTREAM are based on best-in-world innovations, including: • Standardised, rapid monitoring techniques able to detect MP down to sizes >25 µm • Bio-based, biodegradable plastics the stop the formation of MP in consumer products and WWTPs themselves • Elimination of more than 90% MP within WWTPs from both sludge and effluent streams • Innovative floating platforms capable of removing >83% of L, P, and MP directly from rivers at both the surface and riverbed, without creating noise pollution or harming ecosystems • Production of relevant monomers from recovered plastics through both advanced fractionation and depolymerisation and biotransformation UPSTREAM represents a pan-European consortium with 5 demo sites across Europe, including 4 WWTPs (UK, ES, DE, IT), plus a testing area on the Danube in Serbia. The consortium is strengthened by top European RTOs, the world leader in sustainable bioplastics development, Novamont, and completed by partners dedicated to creating a digital knowledge sharing platform and engaging with citizens and stakeholders.