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percentage of goods touched by the chemical sector from ETH Zurich, is currently assessing the environmental and economic potential of this technology.

“ If successful, direct conversion could offer a low-energy, low-emission and cost-effective route for turning waste – be it plastic or biomass – into valuable inputs for new materials,” Charlie says.

This project exemplifies how fundamental research and industry collaboration can fast-track breakthrough solutions. It also demonstrates the coalition’ s commitment to translating circular economy principles into real, scalable action.

GIC’ s collaborative pilots and success stories GIC has already seen progress through several coalition-initiated pilots and partnerships.

The Automotive Plastics Circularity Pilot, for example, addresses the challenge of end-of-life vehicle plastics, 80 % of which are currently incinerated or landfilled in the EU.

This pilot brings together players across the automotive and plastics value chains – from dismantlers and recyclers to material producers – to develop scalable systems for collecting,

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