{"id":1204,"date":"2026-10-15T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tosca-project.eu\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:24:37","slug":"multicycle-recycling-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tosca-project.eu\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Multicycle Recycling Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1204\" class=\"elementor elementor-1204\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43b7951 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"43b7951\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e0653c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e0653c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Within the TOSCA project, <strong>NOMA<\/strong> is developing a method for <strong>reusing production scraps<\/strong> from vitrimer-based composites and expanding their potential contribution to material circularity.<\/p><p>The key scientific challenge is to enable repeated reprocessing while preserving the quality and performance of the resulting composites. 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