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
Workshop Agenda:
13:30
Introduction
Workshop moderator: Joachim Quoden, Lawyer and Managing Director,
EXPRA, Europe
13:35
Market trends in chemical recycling and future outlook
Patrick Ellis, Consultant,
Smithers (tentative)
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
