Title: responsabile tecnico

Association/Company: ROM PLASTICA SRL

Biography:
Ingegnere elettronico con 25 anni di esperienza nel settore offshore per lo sviluppo di strumentazione per il monitoraggio ambientale e per sistemi di automazione. Negli ultimi anni si è dedicato al monitoraggio delle microplastiche e allo sviluppo di impianti per la realizzazione di  packaging per prodotti ittici ed alimentari con materiali green.

Speech session
LIFE MUSCLES – Life MUssel Sustainable production (re)cyCLES  Project– Promote the transition to a circular economic model for the mussel farming sector

Speech
Recycling process of mussels farms nets

Abstract
The polyethylene nets used in mussel farms, from special waste to be disposed of, can be transformed into easily reusable raw material for the production of new nets. A low-cost recycling process is described: by means of grinding, washing and drying actions it is possible eliminating biological residues and sediments from the recovered nets and to produce pseudo-granulate which, with forced extrusion, allows the generation of new nets, significantly reducing the emission in the environment of additional polypropylene. The small size of the recycling plant allows its installation and utilization on site at mussel farmers, reducing the costs of disposing of special waste and producing clean pseudo granulate to be returned to the producers of mussel farming nets.