PlasticTwist

HORIZON 2020 project named: PlasticTwist

An open platform for plastics lifecycle awareness, monetization, and sustainable innovation

https://ptwist.eu/

• sea plastic reuse in pre-selected cities and education of the participants (Greece)
• Pilot aiming at making locally valuable and visible products and objects out of these waste streams – engaging local public in the process of recycling, rethinking, and making (Netherlands)
• Pilot aiming at prototyping recycling ecosystems systems that can serve as role model and inspiration for politicians and citizens alike (Switzerland)

• Aim to revaluate plastics, and consider them as an asset for the development of products (revaluation)
• Base on connecting different parts of the plastics value chain, with innovators and communities (connecting)
• Design to allow for a decentralized implementation, close local needs and opportunities (decentralization)
• Engagement of the local communities and stakeholders in the process, taking their needs and reality as a starting point (grassroot)

PlasticTwist global objective is to support multiple actors (citizens, communities, inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs, public institutions) in co-creating and sustaining new forms of plastic-as-an-asset practices, strengthening both societal and circular economy actions in-line with digital social innovation principles. As such, the global vision of PlasticTwist is two-fold:

• to empower citizens, software developers, grass-rooted inventors and communities to co-design and co-develop trusted and easy-to-use applications and tools through an open platform environment at which blockchain technologies drive the plastics material registry, monitoring, bargaining, and pricing tasks
• to increase and sustain the awareness of all stakeholders involved in this plastics reuse value chain, fostering innovation through an increased provision and adoption of plastics as an asset services by local manufacturers, Start-ups, and SMEs
   

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/780121/results

• Gamification toolkit – An application layer open source toolkit which include all tools developed per pilot and in integration with the PTwist Platform’s blockchain monitoring
• Social data collection and processing pipeline – Generalizable component that implements the heterogeneous social media content collection and processing pipeline
• Platform release
• Reports on how the implementations progressed, about best practices in intertwining global (PTwist platform) and local (pilot partners) feedback and coaching for establishing local plastics-as-an-asset-ecosystems, as well as about success factors and pitfalls in the implementation phase.
• Users Engagement and Communities Empowerment Report - It analyses the user engagement indicators from the pilots and the actions to ensure users’ familiarization with the platform during the pilots.
• PTwist reward and incentive monitoring
• Business/Use cases
• Report on Qualitative Crowdsourced and Open Data Filtering Methodology
• User Commitment Best Practices and Actions
• A crowdsourcing approach to advance collective awareness and social good practices
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3358695.3361104
• PlasticCoin: an ERC20 Implementation on Hyperledger Fabric for Circular Economy and Plastic Reuse
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3358695.3361107

1. Crowdsourcing App (https://crowdsourcing.plastictwist.com/)  which consists of three main parts:

• a dynamically updated crowdsourced plastic topics observatory, which is responsible for the identification and visualization of social media content about the plastic reuse thematic, using Twitter as the main source.
• an open designs repository, where users can find interesting links to external sources
• an open Crowdsourcing RESTful API which allows access on the available data offering the possibility to experiment and utilize them for further research and evaluation purposes.

2. PlasticWallet, which allows to transfer and request PlasticTokens between users and to buy products in PlasticTwist’s online Marketplace or adhered merchants. The PlasticWallet corresponds to the digital equivalent of a debit card and a bank account combined in one app. The PlasticToken is ERC20 compliant, and it was developed natively for Hyperledger Fabric in golang. The PlasticTokens run on top of smart contract (also called chaincode by IBM) developed by a French company. The developed smart contract includes the six ERC20 functions: totalSupply, balanceOf, transfer, transferFrom, approve and allowance. With these functions and Hyperledger Fabric, PlasticTwist runs a payment scheme based on permissioned blockchain for a new circular economy based on the re-use and re-evaluation of plastic waste.

3. “Plastic Heroes”, a serious game (https://ptwist.eu/plastic-heroes/)  with focus both, on eLearning elements and a fun gameplay that aims behaviour change. By completing missions and crafting new items the user will be awarded with in game currency as well as PlasticTokens. The game uses REST APIs to connect to PlasticTwist’s blockchain and generate any PlasticTokens required.

3. Through a newsletter, the ideas for city interventions were disseminated to the interested stakeholders, who then participated in the decision process via the twitter account, along with the PlasticTwist Wallet mobile app and their Plastic Tokens.

4. Data filtering methodology, consisting of three main categories, i.e., primitive filtering, dynamic content filtering, data streams & user filtering (https://ptwist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PTWIST_D2.1.pdf)

5. Heterogeneous social media content collection and processing pipeline. This crowdsourcing component consists of two main modules, i.e., the Plastics Topics observatory and the Open Designs repository (https://ptwist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PTWIST_D2.2.pdf) 

6. Rewarding and incentivizing methodologies and approaches and how they are integrated with the gamification tools of the PTwist platform (https://ptwist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PTWIST_D4.2.pdf)

7. Manual on how to utilize the platform’s components and services along with instructions for the events, workshops, campaigns, devices and tools used (https://ptwist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PTWIST_D5.2.pdf)

8. Application of the community engagement towards the Plastic Twist ecosystem through national events (https://ptwist.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PTWIST_D5.3.pdf)