We urgently need solutions to reduce our resource consumption and waste created. We all see in our everyday cooking how plastic waste piles up with 31 kg of plastic waste produced per EU citizen per year [1]. We need to separate waste to mitigate the problem, and food packaging industries are trying to make new types and more sustainable fossil plastics. However, EAT-pack will develop and provide an edible, environmental and economic sustainable, and safe alternative food packaging solution to re-think, reduce, and revolutionize the future food supply. This breakthrough innovation of edible food film (EFF) either melts or dissolves when boiled, baked or added into the pot, creating no waste. Applications of the EFF concept will be showcased by three scenarios of foods with increasing complexity: 1) rice in portion size, 2) frozen pizza and 3) minced meat that will work as EFF model for a large variety of other types of foods. The company CP Kelco and Mikael Eriksen (private) will together with DTU Food provide technical solutions through development, demonstration, and consumer studies to create this green solution. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the ready to market EFF will be performed by KU Food. Through conversion of side stream into edible packaging materials, EAT-pack will eliminate the end-of-life treatment corresponding to a reduction of 1.3-2 kg CO2/ ton and create direct revenue of 100 million DKK in 2030.

The global cement industry emits 7 % of total annual CO2 emissions through the calcination of limestone and by burning fossil fuels. Such processes are known to significantly contribute to climate change. The cement industry must become climate neutral whilst simultaneously satisfying cement demands. The global cement market size reached US$ 363.2 Billion in 2022. The ECem consortium proposes a new solution to this challenge through the development of electric calciner technologies that allow CO2 to be captured, stored, or utilised in a much better way than existing solutions. The total addressable market share for FLS is 18% which gives a business opportunity of 32 to 50 billions EUR. Leading Danish organisations- FLSmidth, the Danish Technological Institute, Aalborg University, and European Energy, as well as the research centre HZDR (DE), SME Plagazi (SE), and Argos (CO) - as one of the most innovative cement producers - will join forces to develop this solution. These companies have the common aim of commercialisation at a later stage and a global roll-out by FLSmidth. A potential transfer of the solutions to other industries such as chemistry, steel, and glass is possible. The ECem consortium is confident that the solution, when globally deployed to cement producers, can prevent at least 100 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year and unlock investments in the range of several billion EUR, while creating at least 4000 new jobs in the medium- to long-term.