The two-day conference at this year’s Plastics Recycling Show Europe will cover the latest trends and developments in the sector, as well as reflecting on the most recent legislation, challenges, and opportunities.
It brings together the entire cross-section of the value chain, aiming to promote collaboration and to accelerate the transition towards sustainable and truly circular plastics recycling industry.
The full programme is available here.
Emmanuelle Maire, the European Commission’s Head of Unit ‘Circular economy, Sustainable Production and Consumption’, will keynote the first day of the conference. She will join Ton Emans, President of Plastics Recyclers examining the way forward for plastic recycling in Europe.
The comprehensive two-day programme taking place across two theatres will cover in depth all the key issues currently facing the plastic recycling value chain in Europe and beyond. Leading industry figures already confirmed to speak include:
- Hugo-Maria Schally – Adviser for international environmental negotiations, DG Environment, European Commission
- Feliks Bezati – Global Circular Packaging Director, Mars
- Gian De Belder – Technical Director - R&D Packaging Sustainability, Procter & Gamble
- Adrian Sen, Sr. Packaging Sustainability & Innovation Manager, Colgate-Palmolive
- Therese Litsin – Raw material leader plastics and chemicals, IKEA
- Dragos Popa – Principal, Roland Berger
- Scott R. Trenor – Technical Director, The Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR)
- Sustainable Plastics editor Karen Laird will moderate a panel discussion on ‘Cutting-Edge Solutions in the Recycling Industry’ on the first day of the conference.
Key topics will include the future of plastic recycling in Europe, market analysis and forecasts, and in-depth analysis of the EU legislative landscape. In particular, the spotlight will be on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), alongside dedicated sessions on measures to achieve recycled content targets and explore the latest advancements in chemical recycling.
In parallel, panel discussions will promote the debate on possible strategies for enhancing and harmonising collection and sorting, design for recycling, and the latest updates on the advancement of plastics circularity on a global scale.
Sustainable Plastics editor Karen Laird will moderate a panel discussion on ‘Cutting-Edge Solutions in the Recycling Industry’ on day one.
Dedicated plastic streams focus sessions will tackle the challenges, issues, and opportunities in the recycling of PET, PO films, PVC, HDPE, PP and ELV & WEEE.