BIOLOOP

The establishment and development of industries in urban and peri-urban areas raises the recurring question of how to manage materials that cannot be consumed by humans. This waste is multi-faceted, dispersed throughout the area, heterogeneous in composition and even seasonal.

Because of its composition, however, it could be an interesting bioresource that could be recycled to replace imported products. The fact is that reducing this waste through its transformation cannot involve the transformation stage alone, but requires all the players involved to be taken into account on a regional scale in a circular economy perspective.

BIOLOOP's objectives are 1) to consider ways of using plant by-products in biosourced materials in a low-impact way and 2) to study a specific case, the application of spent grains from breweries in an urban environment, before validating the general concept.

The methods used to propose 100% recyclable biobased materials will be based on an analysis of economic data (players, flows, etc.) and on taking into account all the players in the sector in order to devise practical solutions with them.

This multi-disciplinary project brings together researchers and teacher-researchers in the analysis of bio-based materials, process engineering and economics, as well as an SME.

It involves the BIA unit's NANO and MC2 teams.

Project coordinator: Isabelle Capron, UR BIA NANO team
Partners involved:

• BIA-INRAE
• SMART-INRAE
• LEMNA
• GEPEA
• Waste-me-up

BIA teams involved:

• BIA-NANO: Isabelle Capron, Hugo Voisin, Pierre Sartelet
• BIA-MC2: Denis Lourdin

Project start-end date: 01/01/2023 - 01/01/2025
Total budget: €63k
Financing: Ademe and Pays de la Loire Region