About the project

The introduction of the circular economy has certaintly defined a different approach of the waste disposal. The use of recovered materials has become of primary importance when dealing with industries as the construction sector. The chance of re-use discarded sediments from anthropic/industrial origins opens new road in terms of sustainability and economy of the process.

While dealing with an increasing demand of construction products as well as the challenge posed by the "zero waste" regime and transition to the Circular Economy, SEEDS aims at defining new strategies to tackle these aspects with a state-of-the-art project combining the use of the geopolymer technology as substitute to the Ordinary Portland Cement. Discarded sediments can be employed as partial replacement of virgin raw materials that are employed to produce geopolymers and alkali activated materials. The aim is to improve the eco-sustainability of the building materials production chain without compromising the performance of the final products.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

SEEDS partecipants believe in the scientific and technological step towards the no-waste goal. The sediments hereby examined are a waste that "ceases to be a waste" to become an End of Waste (EoW) material thus creating a new life we comply with the EU sustainable development goals (SDGs) lowering both energy and costs.