LITOCLEAN participates in a European R&D project on phytoremediation.

Phy2Climate evaluates the remediation of contaminated land through phytoremediation in conjunction with advanced biofuel production.

The European Commission has promoted Phy2Climate, a project to assess the decontamination capacity of soil through phytoremediation. This initiative is part of the European Union’s H2020 strategy under the INEA (Innovation and Networks Executive Agency) and involves 17 partners from 10 different countries with solid interdisciplinary experience in the fields of project management, soil remediation and phytoremediation, advanced biofuel technologies, environmental and social sustainability, legal analysis. The company LITOCLEAN is one of the technological and research partners of the program thanks to its extensive knowledge in soil decontamination and its strong commitment to R&D&I.

Phy2Climate aims to validate five phytoremediation pilots in Spain, Serbia, Lithuania, Argentina and India. Phytoremediation is a technique that uses the capacity of some plants to absorb pollutants present in the soil and with which LITOCLEAN has already carried out research in previous projects. In this case, in addition to the remediation of contaminated soil, the aim is to use the crops to produce biofuel. This process will be carried out in a pilot biorefinery in Germany that combines state-of-the-art biomass processing technologies to produce four types of clean direct biofuels for the road and maritime transport sectors.

The project promotes the recovery of a waste, which is contaminated soil, as well as the generation of a green product, such as biomass, and is fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Circular Economy.