Date - Tuesday 26 October 2021 - Online

Time - 13:30 - 16:30 BST / 14:30 - 17:30 CEST  | Ticket Price - €349 + VAT

Moderator, Speakers and Panelists include:

          

About The Online Workshop

This interactive online workshop will provide an exclusive opportunity for the entire value chain to find out more about and discuss the following topics:

• Latest market trends and developments in chemical recycling and future outlook
• Overview about the current legal obligations and challenges for plastics and plastic recycling
• Latest technologies in chemical recycling and new business concepts
• Chemical recycling value-chain collaborations
• The role of chemical recycling: preventing waste to nature and circular economy
• Interactive panel discussion

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Workshop Agenda:

13:30     Introduction
Workshop moderator: Joachim Quoden, Lawyer and Managing Director, EXPRA, Europe
 
13:35     The Future of Chemical Recycling

• Marketing prospects of chemical recycling of waste, present a potentially high profit solution to waste control
• Use of redundant refineries will cut investment costs of chemical recycling (e.g. Total, Grandpuits, France)
• Wide range of processes available
  • Pyrolysis
  • Hydrothermal cracking
  • Gasification
  • Catalytic hydrogenation
  • Fluid catalytic cracking (plus variants)
• Chemical recycling of waste, short-term solution for production of electricity and motor fuels
• Plastics, elastomers and speciality chemicals most profitable long-term targets
• Mechanical recycling, solution recycling and other “re-use” processes will recede
• Chemical recycling of household and industrial waste will be the prime source of polymers and hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals by 2160

Patrick Ellis, Consultant, Smithers 
 
13:50     Chemical recycling in the legislative context

• Overview about the current legal obligations and challenges for plastics and plastic recycling
• New measurement point for (plastic) recycling
• Recyclability as key component of the future essential requirements and of EPR fee modulation
• Outlook

Joachim Quoden, Lawyer and Managing Director, EXPRA, Europe
 
14:05     Chemical recycling as enabler for new business concepts

• The chemical industry is still at the beginning of its journey to a Circular Economy. BASF has set ambitious target for 2025 (250 kt uptake of recycled content) and has started a Circular Economy program to facilitate this change. Projects like PU mattress recycling and pyrolysis recycling were initiated, which enable new business models with our customers
• Highlighting the climate change perspective

Dr. Christian Krüger, Circular Economy Expert, BASF/PlasticsEurope

14:20      Q & A session
 
14:30     Networking break
 
14:45     Chemical recycling value-chain collaborations
Cloé Ragot, Head of Policy & Sustainability, Plastic Energy
 
15:00     Chemical recycling – a brand owner’s perspective
The role of chemical recycling:

• Preventing waste to nature
• Circular Economy
• Legislation change and its impact

Colin Yates, Packaging Development Director, Mars Petcare
 
15:15     Q&A session
 
15:20     Interactive panel and Q&A

• How should be the ranking of chemical recycling according to the waste hierarchy?
• What is the value of chemical recycling? -Preventing waste entering the environment, -meeting the needs of a circular economy, - supporting the legislative goals
• Why has chemical recycling not been already deployed on a larger scale? What are the levers to this deployment?
• How sustainable is the chemical process itself?  
• Why are life cycle assessments important for chemical recycling?
• Which kind of waste chemical recycling would give the largest benefit?
• What circumstances or under which conditions will politicians accept chemical recycling?
• How will we be able to monitor or trace how much of the input into the process is recycled and not used for other purposes?
• How mass balance can support the circular economy?

Panellists:

• Paulo Da Silva Lemos, Policy Officer, DG Environment, European Commission
• Carlos Ludlow-Palafox, CEO, Enval
• Colin Yates, Packaging Development Director, Mars Petcare
• Dr. Christian Krüger, Circular Economy Expert, BASF/PlasticsEurope
• Guillaume Gamon, Recycling Development Project Manager, CITEO

More panellists to be announced
 
16:20     Conclusion
 
16:30     Workshop ends