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#Recycling / Circular Economy

Plastics Circularity Multiplier online conference

The ‘Plastics Circularity Multiplier’ group invites interested people to attend its three days online conference on the 14th - 15th - 16th of October 2020 between 10.00 - 12.30 CET. There are several topics that also concern the textile industry, such as the presentation "Recycling of coated and painted textile and plastic materials" by Guy Buyle (CENTEXBEL).

Only 2 weeks to go, register now!

The event will bring together policy makers and representatives from industry who will communicate on a range of EU-funded innovations that aim of bringing plastic materials into the circular economy.

Learn how to create a cross cooperation between EU Projects and boost European Union efforts towards a circular economy for plastics.

Location: live webinar with live Q/A session

Participation: Participation is free of charge. Registration required for each session separately, please follow the links below. You can register to each session separately - free of charge - via the registration buttons below.

https://demeto.prezly.com/plastics-circularity-multiplier-online-conference-341058




Programme (Excerpt)

14 October 2020 10.00 - 12.30 CET

R&D investments and Chemical Recycling

Welcome - Angel Fuentes Mateo, Research Programme Officer at the European Commission

Presentation of the Plastics Circularity Multiplier Initiative

R&D investments and Chemical Recycling

15 October 2020 10.00 - 12.30 CET

Product design for recycling & Recycled plastics content in products

Clustering activities in EU Projects - Keti Medarova - Bergstrom, Project Advisor at EASME

Product design for recycling

16 October 2020 10.00 - 12.30 CET

Collection and sorting of plastic waste & Monitoring of recycled plastics

Keynote speech - Connecting the bins: why Plastics Circularity requires us to get off our respective islands - Kim Ragaert, Associate Professor at Ghent University

Collection and sorting of plastic waste


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