CircularFarmPlastics

Circular Solutions for Farm Plastics in the Baltic Sea Region

CircularFarmPlastics

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PROGRAMME 2021-2027

priority

3 Climate-neutral societies

objective

3.1 Circular economy

CircularFarmPlastics

The project CircularFarmPlastics brings together farmers, municipalities, businesses and policymakers to improve the collection, reuse and recycling of plastics used in agriculture through farmer training, new technologies and incentives for circular business models that reduce microplastic pollution and improve circular waste management.

CircularFarmPlastics tackles the challenge of agricultural plastic waste, which is poorly managed on farms, often contaminated, costly to collect, and difficult to recycle. Farmers, waste handlers, municipalities, private collectors, and regional/national policymakers need capacity building to move from micro-plastic soil pollution and wasted resources to circular management of plastics at farms. Farmers lack knowledge, effective collection services and clear guidance for proper use, storage, and return of plastics; waste handlers struggle with contaminated, low-value materials and unprofitable logistics; policymakers lack insights into farm-level realities and harmonized standards. Barriers include limited awareness, weak co-operation among actors, poor quality of collected plastics, fragmented regulations, low profitability for collectors, and weak demand for recycled agri-plastics. The project helps overcome these barriers by providing farmer-friendly training, awareness campaigns, and online courses, transfer of enabling technologies such as compactors, mobile reception, and washing/pre-treatment systems, and exchange of transferable logistics and business models. Outcomes will benefit farmers through economic waste services and healthier soils, waste collectors through higher-quality feedstock, and retailers/producers via improved producer responsibility. Project supports harmonisation of the farm plastic management policies in the macro-region for circularity.

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details

Project type

Small Project
Implementation

July 2026 - June 2028
Status

Ongoing
Contribution to EUSBSR
- PA Bioeconomy

Budgets

CircularFarmPlastics
in numbers.

0.50

Million

Total
0.28

Million

Erdf
0.08

Million

Norway

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