Webinar: innovative sorting for plastic packaging waste

CIMPA & CIRCULAR FoodPack organize an online event on tracer-based and digital watermarking sorting

Would you like to find out how to sort plastic packaging in order to make it part of the circular economy? Then join our webinar “Innovative sorting for plastic packaging waste: Tracer-Based-Sorting and digital watermarking, in conjunction with NIR sorters” on 29 June from 13h30 to 15h30 (CET)!

The EU-funded projects CIRCULAR FoodPack and CIMPA apply two different innovative sorting technologies: CIRCULAR FoodPack works on Tracer-Based-Sorting, while CIMPA uses digital watermarking, both in conjunction with NIR sorters.

The webinar will investigate the characteristics, differences and similarities of these two sorting technologies and we will discuss about their opportunities for a circular economy. As innovative sorting technologies are crucial for enabling circularity in packaging, the webinar is of huge interest for the scientific and industrial community as well as for the policy makers.

Agenda

The event will take place on 29 June 2023, from 13:30 to 15:30

13h30 Welcome and Introduction

13h35 Keynote Speech “Policy drivers for circular plastic packaging”

Maria Vera-Duran, Project Manager, European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC)

13h50 Presentation of the EU projects CIRCULAR FoodPack and CIMPA

Esra Kücükpinar, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, IVV (CIRCULAR FoodPack coordinator)
Céline Chevallier, IPC – Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites (CIMPA coordinator)

14h00 Presentation of the two sorting technologies

Jochen Moesslein, CEO and Founder Polysecure GmbH
The Tracer-Based-Sorting Technology (TBS)
Antoine Bourely, Co-founder and Research and Development Manager PellencST
Marien de Lint, Board Member FiliGrade Sustainable Watermarks
Digital Watermarking

14h40 Panel Discussion

Jochen Moesslein, CEO and Founder Polysecure GmbH
Antoine Bourely, Co-founder and Research and Development Manager PellencST
Marien de Lint, Board Member FiliGrade Sustainable Watermarks
Esra Kücükpinar, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, IVV (CIRCULAR FoodPack coordinator)
Céline Chevallier, IPC – Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites (CIMPA coordinator)

Moderated by Martin Schlummer, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging, IVV

15h25 Wrap Up