Indo-Danish Plastic Innovation Network
Plast Center Danmark / Danish Materials Network is in collaboration with following:
- CLEAN (Danish)
- University of Southern Denmark (Danish)
- Roskilde University (Danish)
- Saahas Zero Waste (Indian)
- IPI-Indian Plastic Institute (Indian)
- MIT-WPU (Indian)
- DRIIV/TERI (Indian)
- ICDK (Indian)
which is our partners in a one-year collaboration called “Indo-Danish Plastic Innovation Network”. The project is funded by Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science.
This project is aimed to establish an Indo-Danish research & innovation network exploring transnational collaboration opportunities within the plastic value chain. The partnership shall bring together Danish & Indian research institutes, clusters and private actors to progress the circularity agenda in the plastic value chain, through collection, sorting, end-of-life and recycling processes. In an Indian context plastic consumption has grown at a significant pace over the past five and so has its waste output. India produces 3.4 million tonnes of plastic waste in a year with currently less than 50% of it being recycled. Whilst in Denmark much of the waste is incinerated, creating joint demand for innovation. From both a user and producer point of view, the challenges in the plastic industry demand social intervention as much as technological innovation as is reflected in the partner group.
For further information, please contact:
- Dorte Walzl Bælum
- Network Director
- B.Sc. Chem. Eng., M.Sc. in Business
- M: 60 35 19 90
- E: dwb@dmn-net.com
