Si svolge a Roma il 29 e il 30 aprile la XII edizione di IdentiPlast evento europeo dedicato al settore del riciclo e del recupero di scarti in materiale plastico organizzato da PlasticsEurope, ACC (American Chemistry Council), PWMI (Plastic Waste Management Institute), EPIC (Environment and Plastics Industry Council) e EPRO (European association of Plastics Recycling& Recovering Organisation). L’appuntamento riunisce i principali esperti internazionali sul fine vita dei manufatti in plastica e si pone l'obiettivo di individuare i fattori chiave per il raggiungimento di una società “zero plastics waste” all’interno di un sistema economico che sia veramente sempre più sostenibile. Ricchissimo il programma dei due giorni.

Mercoledì 29 aprile

10,00-10,30 - Opening & Welcome

Daniele Ferrari (president, PlasticsEurope Italia); Alessandro Bratti (chairman of the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on waste cycle); Roberto De Santis (president, Consorzio Nazionale Imballaggi (Conai))

10:30-11:45 - Circular Economy: The Vision

What is the Circular Economy?

Helmut Maurer (Waste Management & Recycling Unit, DG Environment, European Commission)

Zero Plastics to Landfill

Martin Engelmann (director EU and governmental affairs, PlasticsEurope)

Primary and Secondary Raw Material

Antonello Ciotti (director, Equipolymers)

The Point of View of an NGO

Stefano Ciafani (vice president, Legambiente)

The View of the Cities and the Regions

Françoise Bonnet (secretary general, Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and Sustainable Resource Management (ACR+))

Facilitator: Helmut Schmitz (head of public affairs, Der Grüne Punkt)

Questions & Answers

12:00-13:30 - Panel Discussion: From Vision to Action

Extended Producers Responsibility

Joachim Quoden (managing director, Extended Producers Responsibility Alliance (EXPRA))

Sustainability through innovation in plastic packaging

Giovanni Cassuti (vice president Polyethylene Business Unit, Versalis)

Recycling Industry in Europe

Michael Scriba (CEO, mtm plastics)

Energy Recovery in Europe

Ferdinand Kleppmann (president, Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (CEWEP))

The potential for plastic packaging to contribute to a circular and resource-efficient economy

Harald Pilz (sustainability assessment of products, denkstatt)

Packaging & the Environment

Virginia Janssens (managing director, Europen)

Facilitator: Patricia Vangheluwe (director consumer & environmental affairs, PlasticsEurope)

Questions & Answers

14:30 - 15:30 - Epro Award (sponsored by Consorzio Nazionale per la Raccolta, il Riciclaggio e il Recupero degli Imballaggi in Plastica (Corepla))

Giorgio Quagliuolo (president, Consorzio Nazionale per la Raccolta, il Riciclaggio e il Recupero degli Imballaggi in Plastica (Corepla))

15:30 - 17:00 - Sharing Best Practices

Increase Recycling of HH Packaging

Catherine Klein (managing director, Valorplast)

Waste Free Oceans in the Mediterranean Rim

Yavuz Eroglu (president, Turkish Plastics Industry Foundation (PAGEV))

End-Of-Life: Solutions for Biodegradable Plastics

Marco Versari (director, Novamont)

Example from Canada

Carol Hochu (president and CEO, Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA))

Engineering plastics: sustainable recycling

Erico Spini (marketing director, Radici Group/Plastics)

Facilitator: Carol Hochu (president and CEO, Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA))

Questions & Answers

Giovedì 30 aprile

09:00-10:00 - Waste Legislation

Europe: Overview from DG Environment

Helmut Maurer (Waste Management & Recycling Unit, DG Environment, European Commission)

America: Plastics Waste Legislation

Craig Cookson (director Sustainability & Recycling, Plastics Division, American Chemistry Council (ACC))

Japan: Plastics Waste Legislation and the way to a Circular Economy

Akihiro Izumi (Plastic Waste Management Institute (PWMI))

Facilitator: Martin Engelmann (director EU and governmental affairs, PlasticsEurope)

Questions & Answers

10:00-11:30 - Collection, Sorting and Recycling

Collection Models in Italy

Filippo Brandolini (president, Federambiente)

Sorting Plant

Pietro Spagni (Idealservice)

Recyclers

Marco Fabio Musselli (president, Breplast)

Enhanced Recyclate Collection in the UK

Zoe Goodman (principal consultant, White Young Green (WYG))

The Future of Waste Management

Stuart Hayward-Higham (technical director, Sita UK)

Facilitator: Craig Cookson (director Sustainability & Recycling, Plastics Division, American Chemistry Council (ACC))

Questions & Answers

12:00-13:30 Innovation

New Developments in Sorting Technology

Jonathan Clarke (global sales director recycling Titech Tomra Sorting)

Mixed Plastics Recycling

Valerio Caramassi (president, Revet Recycling)

Advances in Agricultural Film Recycling

Jan Bauer (Rigk (head of Epro's Agricultural Plastics WG))

Carbon Recycling in the Steel Industry

Christoph Thaler (process engineer, BTT - Technology Slab, Voestalpine)

Feedstock Recycling - Cracked?

Adrian Griffiths (Recycling Technologies)

Facilitator: Adrian Whyle (resource efficiency senior manager, PlasticsEurope)

Questions & Answers

14:30-16:00 - Value Chain Perspectives

Unilever

Louis Lindenberg (global packaging sustainability director

Politecnico di Milano

Andrea Ratti (associate professor, Department for Design)

Coop Italia

Vittorio Ramazza (innovation development)

Renault (France)

Christophe Garnier (circular economy project manager)

Itene

Mercedes Hortal (head of Sustainability Division)

Facilitator: Peter Sundt (secretary general, European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations (EPRO))

Questions & Answers

16:00-16:15 - Wrap-up

Peter Sundt (secretary general, European Association of Plastics Recycling and Recovery Organisations (EPRO))

16:15-16:30 - Close and Closing Comments - Welcome to IdentiPlast 2017

Karl-H. Foerster (executive director, PlasticsEurope)