The EU Commission wants to reduce the environmental impact of packaging by mandating that producers use a minimum amount of recycled plastic in new packaging placed on the market. New regulations are expected to be passed this year as brandowners increase their focus on sustainability in their packaging using more recycled content, light weighting and/or investing in bio based packaging.

The SUPD requires every EU country to ensure that PET beverage bottles incorporate at least 25% recycled plastic by. The bar will be raised to 65% and extended to all single-use plastic beverage bottles by 2040.

How is the PET industry handling the shifting sands of sustainability regulations ?

What are the progress and achievements to date by brandowners and retailers on bring sustainable ?

What are the proven changes, infrastructure development and recycling, sorting technologies to accelerate circularity ?

Sustainability commitments made also by the textile industry have set the stage for more competition in an increasingly tight market. Should used PET bottles be only channelled to the food packaging market ? Is there a more sustainable solution for the polyester textile industry ?

Will chemical recycling play an important part in unlocking the supply to meet the set targets ?

Come together for our 23rd Greater Europe PET & Polyester ( Recycling & Sustainability ) conference to be held in Porto Portugal this May 23-24th ! Meet our top panel of speakers and share their insights on the current developments and navigating uncertainties in the region. 

Highlights:

• Feedstock Competitiveness – the impact on global PET trade
  
  
• Closing the loop on PET trays
  
  
• Scaling up the recyclability of multilayer PET-based tray
  
  
• Production of virgin-like monomers from mixed PET waste - revolPET®
  
  
• Recycling complex polyester waste to high performance products - The White Cycle project
  
  
• Delivering high quality recycled PET to Romania and neighbouring countries - Update on the first PET recycling plant in Romania
  
  
• Mono-PET flexibles: the low carbon choice
  
  
• Cost-effective chemical recycling process for recycled PET of highest purity
  
  
• Recent achievements in the protein engineering of enzymes for the degradation of PET
  
  
• Is there a sustainable solution for textile-to-textile recycling
  
  
• Drivers for FMCG companies towards more sustainability for packaging
  
  
  

And many more