06/12/2017 - 07/12/2017
Brussels
Belgium
URBIOFIN participated in the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) Stakeholder Forum 2017 on 6th and 7th December 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The event brought together the bio-based industries community and stakeholders from across every aspect of the bio-based economy in one venue to facilitate an open communication and encouraging cross-collaboration between them. Ideas and best practices were exchanged through inspiring keynotes, project exhibitions and networking sessions. The strategic direction of the BBI JU initiative and its achievements so far, the lessons learned and how future sector developments can be designed to address stakeholders concerns and views on the roadmap for a bio-based Europe were discussed during plenary sessions.
As one of 65 ongoing projects of the BBI JU initiative, URBIOFIN representatives presented the project to the bio-based industries community and stakeholders.
The URBIOFIN project will demonstrate the techno-economic and environmental viability of converting the organic fraction of MSW (OFMWS) on a semi-industrial scale. It will create chemical building blocks, biopolymers or additives using the biorefinery concept applied to MSW. Ultimately, URBIOFIN will offer a new feasible and more sustainable scenario alternative to the current treatment of the OFMSW.
