One of the solutions to close the waste cycle even in the most virtuous territories is the green circular district presented today in Pisa, during a conference promoted together with the Sant'Anna High School, by NextChem, the company of Maire Tecnimont that operates in the field green chemistry and technologies to support the energy transition and the circular economy, based on the know-how and experience of an Italian group with approximately 9,000 employees and offices around the world. The Green Circular District, it was explained, "can include different technologies for making green chemistry products - such as hydrogen, methanol, ethanol,from the recycling of plastic and dry waste from which carbon and hydrogen can be extracted to reconstruct "circular" molecules with low carbon content - and to produce green hydrogen through electrolysis, from renewable sources ". A model that allows the conversion of industrial sites, saving jobs and creating new ones, creating new industrial chains and reducing the country's energy dependence, producing materials that are now imported from abroad and creating the conditions to start a pilot phase of use of hydrogen in public transport, one of the objectives of the Next Generation Eu and the Energy and Climate Plans. "The chemical conversion technology for the production of circular molecules is an innovation of NextChem - underlined Pierroberto Folgiero,ceo of the Maire Tecnimont and NextChem group - which is based on consolidated processes and contributes both to the reduction of waste disposal in landfills and to the decarbonisation of industry and transport, necessary to achieve the European targets for reducing emissions. Our idea involves the production of hydrogen, which plays a very important role in starting sustainable mobility. With a circular hydrogen plant that starts from plastic waste and dry waste, hydrogen could be produced at a low price that could be used for example for the mobility of a fleet of buses in the area where the plant is born and could also be a way to break the ice in this great issue that exists of the existence of hydrogen supply and demand ".observed the president of Maire Tecnimont, Fabrizio Di Amato, "waste is the oil of the third millennium and our goal is to demonstrate that it is possible to recover and reuse it for completely renewable purposes through a synthesis gas process to transform waste into biofuels. , matanol or ethanol ". "These - he explained - are projects that stand on their own feet and do not require public contributions. The circular green districts, in our opinion, are the egg of Columbus: they can give new life to industrial sites in crisis (refineries , former steel mills) thus savingjobs and creating new jobs because by transforming them into new generation plants with a strong digital and innovation feature we will need young and adequately trained workers "." Thus - concluded Marco Frey, coordinator of the sustainability laboratory of the Sant'Anna School of Pisa - you become the protagonists of a demanding challenge which requires strategic vision, shared actions, innovative technologies ".
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