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Integrated solution for innovative biodegradation control of agricultural plastic mulches.

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Project "BIOMULCH" data sheet

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Coordinator
ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADOY DEL PLASTICO DE LA REGION DE MURCIA 

Organization address
address: AVENIDA EUROPA 4 5 POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL LAS SALINAS
city: ALHAMA DE MURCIA
postcode: 30840
website: www.ctcalzado.org

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 Coordinator Country Spain [ES]
 Project website https://biomulch.eu/
 Total cost 1˙976˙993 €
 EC max contribution 1˙613˙667 € (82%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges)
2. H2020-EU.2. (PRIORITY 'Industrial leadership')
 Code Call H2020-FTIPilot-2016-1
 Funding Scheme IA
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-12-01   to  2019-05-31

 Partnership

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL CALZADOY DEL PLASTICO DE LA REGION DE MURCIA ES (ALHAMA DE MURCIA) coordinator 514˙125.00
2    MORERA & VALLEJO INDUSTRIAL SL ES (SEVILLA) participant 335˙562.00
3    ASOCIACION PARA EL DESARROLLO DEL SISTEMA PRODUCTIVO VINCULADO A LA AGRICULTURA ONUBENSE ES (HUELVA) participant 276˙281.00
4    THATCHTEC BV NL (WAGENINGEN) participant 263˙112.00
5    FKUR KUNSTSTOFF GMBH DE (WILLICH) participant 224˙586.00

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 Project objective

Nowadays, mulching is an essential technique used in agriculture to satisfy the worldwide growing demand for agricultural products. It consists of covering the soil surface in order to modify climate conditions and favouring the crops. Conventional mulch is made of polyethylene plastic with important limitations: the plastic has to be removed after the harvest (time consuming, expensive & 10-20% remaining at soil) and it is difficult to be recycled due to its high contamination by ground, stones or waste, being the most part (45.2%) placed in landfills. Therefore, plastic mulches cause serious problems of environmental and economic concerns. Other developed mulch alternatives are not sufficient: oxodegradable (based on polyethylene, are a risk of accumulation in environment) and biodegradable (do not guarantee total degradation under uncontrolled conditions and they are three times more expensive). There is a market demand to find alternatives. Our innovative product, BIOMULCH, will be a biobased mulch with controlled biodegradation (independent from temperature, humidity and soil conditions) and being cost competitive (€1,100/ha respect to €3,000/ha of polyethylene, €2,078/ha of oxodegradable and €2,150/ha of biodegradable), covering the current agriculture market needs. BIOMULCH will be commercialised as a kit and will guarantee the farmers the complete mulch film biodegradation when is exactly required by them. The mulch film will be fully degraded in a 30-40 days period with our innovative mulching technique. As a result, it is expected an important growth for consortium companies, obtaining a total turnover above €354M in 2018-2022. Also it is expected an important benefit for UE, above 759M euros by 2022, derived from savings for farmers and waste savings. BIOMULCH counts already with letters of support of prestigious companies which are very interested in its business model.

 Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Final prototype for BIOMULCH Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes 2020-04-08 11:45:14
Project micro-website and Social Media accounts Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. 2020-04-08 11:45:14

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail:  detailed list of BIOMULCH deliverables.

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