By the end of March the follow-up meeting of the Ecorkwaste project took place with the visit of a European Comission advisor of Life+ Program.

The visit consisted of an intense agenda during two days in which the partners of the project, UPC, Institut Català del Suro, Fundació CTM Centre Tecnològic, Typsa and INNOVI have provided first-hand information to the person designated by Life+ Program.

From some weeks ago Ecorkwaste has new communication elements to explain the project and give information about its benefits.

These are different informative panels that can be seen in the facilities of the partners participating in the project: Fundació CTM Tecnologic Center, Institut Català del Suro, Innovi, TYPSA Group and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

In recent weeks the progress and preliminary results of Ecorkwaste project have been present in different workshops about bioeconomy and circular economy.

Under the title "Bioeconomy in the forestry sector. Incentives ", was held a technical conference organized by Generalitat de Catalunya in which Albert Hereu, director of the Catalan Institute of Cork, exposed the economic potential of the cork sector in Catalonia. In this context, he presented Ecorkwaste as an example of a circular economy project that gives vaule to the byproduct from the cork industry to be used as absorbent material in wetlands for the elimination of organic compounds in winery wastewater treatment systems.