2 October will be an important day for CIRCULAR BIOCARBON: the inauguration of the biorefinery in Zaragoza! The event will gather project partners, local politicians, European Commission representatives and other relevant stakeholders to officially open the biorefinery and get a technical tour of its facilities.

The event will highlight how the new biorefinery, owned by the Zaragoza City Council and operated by Urbaser, will enable the city to advance traditional waste treatment processes in Zaragoza and its surroundings, such as wastewater treatment sludge and organic waste. These will be converted into high-value final products based on bio-based materials, local sustainable raw materials, and circular production processes. With a strong focus on selective waste collection, the biorefinery is also expected to provide environmental and economic benefits to both the city and the region by reducing the waste sent to landfills.

The CIRCULAR BIOCARBON biorefinery is a unique model, with process lines implemented in two different locations (Zaragoza, Spain, and Sesto San Giovanni, Italy) for logistical, customer, and market reasons. This multi-site approach will test the biorefinery's performance across different waste management systems, ecosystems, and existing industrial practices, boosting its potential for replication across Europe.

CIRCULAR BIOCARBON aims to set the basis for the demonstration, at a commercial level, of the feasibility of a biorefinery from which organic municipal waste will be exploited and valorised to obtain high-quality products and the demonstration of a new waste treatment model for cities. The end products include coating of direct consumer products, coating of mechanical moving parts, coating of plastic moulding tools, biodegradable and compostable waste bags, green graphene-based devices and products, biodegradable soil mulch films, solid organomineral fertiliser with biostimulant properties and liquid biobased biostimulant.