FunGlass to Work on Development of a Revolutionary Glass Recycling Concept
The FunGlass Centre in Trencin, Slovak Republic has become a partner of a successful project with the title EverGLASS (The New Role of Glass in a Sustainable Society. The Horizon Europe program under the call European Innovation Council Pathfinder Open 2023 is coordinated by the School of Engineering of Universidad de Vigo, Spain.
EverGLASS proposes to develop a radically new technology called “glass laser transformation” for on-site glass recycling and the generation of customized or technical products. Users will feed waste into a new machine and select which new product to get. The vision is ambitious, as it aims to bring to the consumer market a novel technology to enable virtually infinite reuse of glass. It is also radical since, through a multipurpose system capable of being located on any site, it proposes an alternative approach to the traditional centralized recycling process (particularly where this model is not possible, generating thousands of tons of glass waste annually taken to landfills).
This ambitious proposal was prepared in cooperation with the experts from the Institute of Ceramics and Glass of CSIC (Spain), European Science Communication Institute (Germany), Dairy Products Department of Actalia Association (France) and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (Germany). The project receives financial support of €2,961,225 of with FunGlass getting €500,000 over the next 36 months.
