WASTE2H2 establishes an Advisory Board to transform plastics into clean hydrogen

CIC energiGUNE, the coordinating body for the European WASTE2H2 project, has announced the creation of an Advisory Board for this initiative, which will be made up of leading companies in the energy, waste recovery and environmental management sectors.

The aim of WASTE2H2 is to develop a technology for recovering plastic waste that allows it to be transformed into clean hydrogen and high added-value carbon materials with net zero emissions.

The companies that will form part of the Advisory Board are Moeve, Nalón Innova, Urbaser and Thales, which will contribute their experience in areas such as sustainable energy and waste management, carbon-based innovation and high-power microwave/RF technologies. ‘The participation of these companies represents a decisive step forward for the project, which, in addition to developing innovative recovery technologies, will contribute to decarbonisation and Europe’s clean energy transition,’ said Eduardo J. García-Suárez, IKERBASQUE Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at CIC energiGUNE in the WASTE2H2 project.

The main objective of WASTE2H2 is to develop a disruptive methodology that combines the development of innovative ionic liquid-based catalytic systems with microwave irradiation. This opens the door to the selective production of high-purity clean hydrogen, as well as valuable decarbonised chemical products—carbon materials such as activated carbon or carbon nanotubes—using plastic waste as raw material. Thus, in addition to promoting the generation of clean energy, it effectively addresses the serious problem of environmental pollution caused by plastic waste.