T2T
Scheda del progetto
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
RTD-B Elisa Terzaghi
RTD-B Paolo Castelnovo
RTD-B Silvia Gazzola
Assegnista di ricerca Livia Fraccalvieri
According to the preliminary environmental report of December 2021, which is part of the strategic environmental assessment procedure implemented by the Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITE) in cooperation with the Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), the annual production of waste in our country amounts to approximately 184 million tonnes. Of this, about 30 million are from urban sources and the remaining share (more than 80 %) comes from production activities. The largest production, for the latter category, is in Lombardy and Piedmont. In this context and in accordance with the aims of Spoke 2 of the NODES project, this project proposal is positioned and developed.
This PoC project intends to develop a blockchain platform for the traceability of waste reuse, implementing within it a database of chemical-biological, toxicological-environmental and commodity information that will be useful both to those who produce the waste and to those who want to reuse it, with a view to the circular economy.
The platform, which will be developed on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing infrastructure, will guarantee not only archive sharing, but also matchmaking between supply and demand players of secondary raw materials, who will have access to the platform in software as a service mode.
The product will first be developed to meet the needs of the NODES territories, in particular the Lombardy provinces of Como and Varese, where a need to be met is the recovery of mixed waste from the textile industry for reuse in the process itself or for the production of secondary raw materials that can be used in other sectors. The composition of the team dedicated to developing the proposal is characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinarity, including organic chemists, biochemists, environmental eco-toxicologists, bioinformaticians and economists.