Mr Luca Stramare

Director of the Research Centre for the Circular Economy at CONAI

Speaker

Luca Stramare graduated in Chemistry at the University of Milan.

After holding positions in food packaging equipment and in PET resin manufacturing companies he moved to COREPLA, the main Italian PRO for plastic packaging, taking care of R&D and technical relationships with associations. He currently works for CONAI.

CONAI, Consorzio Nazionale Imballaggi, is the main Italian Extend Producer Responsibility organization for packaging. Within CONAI Luca is Director of the Research Centre for the Circular Economy. He is responsible for promoting, coordinating, and developing projects and research focused on sustainability, and circular economy applied to packaging. He specifically concentrates on creating tools for companies and associations to facilitate eco-design and innovation. Luca is also accountable for the development of procedures for determining data on packaging placed on the Italian market, recovered and recycled and for the preparation of the official documentation for data submission to the competent authorities. Additionally, he oversees international relationships, educational programs and provides technical support to the Presidency and the Executive Management during public events related to his area of expertise.

He also held the role of Secretary General of the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) from 2014 to 2020 and still contributes to several European Industry Associations.

Luca has over 25 years of experience in packaging and plastic packaging recycling, with a specific focus on plastics. His expertise includes polymer chemistry, packaging design and performance evaluation, packaging food contact compliance, and packaging end-of-life management: separate collection, sorting, and recycling.