Plastics Circularity Multiplier Online Conference

Programme released, register now!

The ‘Plastics Circularity Multiplier’ group invites you to attend its three days online conference on the 14th - 15th - 16th of October 2020 between 10.00 - 12.30 CET. You can register to each session separately - ​ free of charge - via the registration buttons below.

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.

Programme

14 October 2020 10.00 - 12.30 CET
​R&D investments and Chemical Recycling

  • Welcome - ​  Angel Fuentes Mateos, Research Programme Officer at the European Commission
  • Presentation of the Plastics Circularity Multiplier Initiative
  • R&D investments and Chemical Recycling
  • Q/A – Moderator: Maurizio Crippa - Gr3n


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Click here to register to the session on 14 October 2020
Click here to register to the session on 14 October 2020

 

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
  • Recycled plastics content in products
  • Q/A – Moderator: Bernard Merkx  - EuPC

 

Click here to register to the session on 15 October 2020
Click here to register to the session on 15 October 2020

 

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
  • Monitoring of recycled plastics
  • Q/A - Moderator: Marjan Ranogajec - EuPC

 

Click here to register to the session on 16 October 2020
Click here to register to the session on 16 October 2020

 

 

About the Plastics Circularity Multiplier Intitative
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​Twenty one innovation projects joined forces in 2019 to boost European Union efforts towards a circular economy for plastics. The newly formed group will pool resources and expertise to “multiply” key messages from the ecosystem of projects that receive funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
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​The initiative is managed by EuPC, as Communication and Dissemination leader of the DEMETO project, with the participation of other Horizon 2020 Projects in the field of plastics circularity:
​CIRC-PACK, Circular Flooring, CREAToR, DECOAT, FiberEUse, HARMONI, iCAREPLAST, ISOPREP, MultiCycle, NONTOX, PlastiCircle, polynSPIRE, PolyCE, PUReSmart, REACT, REMADYL, REPAIR3D, SMARTFAN and TERMINUS.
​Life project REPOLYUSE has also joined the initiative as guest participant.
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​For press release click here
​ website: https://www.plasticscircularitymultiplier.eu/

 

 

 

Contact:
​Ms Lilla Mezriczky
​Communications Officer
​European Plastics Converters (EuPC)
​Email: [email protected]
​Tel.: ​ +32 (0) 2 739 63 86

 

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About DEMETO

The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 768573.
Call identifier: H2020 – SPIRE-09-2017 
Project Start Date: 1st of September 2017

The value chain of PET is quite complex. It consists of several steps that are linked in cross-sectorial interactions involving multiple companies across the European and worldwide market. It is at the end of that life cycle that DEMETO proposes its innovative technology: the first feasible and sustainable (economically, environmentally and socially) industrial application of chemical treatment for reuse of PET/Polyester waste streams. Thanks to a process intensifying approach based on innovative usage of microwave radiations, DEMETO’s recycling technology will provide an indefinite life to PET, allowing to come back to its composing elements (Ethylene Glycol, EG, and Terephtalic Acid, PTA) without degrading the materials and, consequently, paving the way for a disruptive, large-scale circular economy for plastic products.

Contact

Avenue de Cortenbergh 71 1000 Brussels Belgium

+32 (0)2 739 63 88

[email protected]

www.demeto.eu