21 March: Day 2 Main Conference
- Joachim Quoden - Managing Director, EXPRA
- 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
- Justin Wood - Vice President and Head of Europe, Middle East & Africa, Alliance to End Plastic Waste
- Fabio Scorza - International Affairs, CONAI
- 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
- Marián Áč - CEO, SPRÁVCA ZÁLOHOVÉHO SYSTÉMU - Deposit return system Administrator Slovakia
- Bilyana Ignatova - Vice President Public Affairs – Head of EU Policy, Tomra
- 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.
- Alexandre Dangis - VP Corporate Affairs, GreenDot Group
- 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
- Nicholas Hodac - Director General, UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe
- Maria Vera-Duran - Project Manager, European Recycling Industries' Confederation (EuRIC)
- 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.
- Hendrik Bruns - Policy Analyst, JRC - Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- Yaprak Hamarat - Policy Analyst Designer, Joint Research Centre, European Commission