- Improving waste infrastructure and management: How best to do it
- Increase and improve collection and sorting to enhance recycling
- Focus on the quality of the output or the quantity of output of recycling?
- Facilitating the correct separation of packaging at source and making it easy for households
- Waste management crucial to achieving the PPWR

- Developing closed loop recycling systems across Europe
- Improving the quality and quality of recycled materials
- Delivering on the objectives of the Single-Use Packaging Directive (SUPD)
- Meeting the demand for high quality rPET
- The impact on DRS with reuse targets on the increase
- Is there a role for digital reward solutions?

Deposit return system in Slovakia

• Developing a closed-loop recycling system.
• Results after 2 years of operation with a focus on recycling and circularity.
• Delivering on the objectives of the Single-Use Packaging Directive (SUPD)

Speaker - Marián Áč, CEO, SPRÁVCA ZÁLOHOVÉHO SYSTÉMU - Deposit return system Administrator Slovakia

- What action is needed for optimised circular plastics markets that can ensure sufficient quality and quantity for recycled content targets? Reliable regulation, clear definitions, standards, verification…

- Mechanical vs. chemical recycling – zero-sum or potential for synergies? Combining mechanical and chemical recycling for optimal use of plastic feedstock as recycled content.

- Should companies with recycled content targets have privileged access to recyclates or should recyclers be free to sell?

- Meeting the obligations from the Single-use-Plastics Directive

- Free-market principles for recycled polymers

- Meeting the demand for rPET

- Biobased plastics and recycled content targets

- The critical situation of the plastic recycling industry (weak demand, low prices, and imports)

- Mechanisms for traceability, verification, and accounting of recycled polymers

- The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation requires harmonised waste sorting labels in the EU.

- Outlining behavioural and design research led by the EU Policy Lab at the European Commission's Joint Reseach Centre to create the evidence underlying these harmonised waste sorting labels.