INVITATION to Tracer Workshop on 24 February 2016 in Brussels: How to improve plastic sorting efficiency?

Brussels

 

Petcore Europe in collaboration with Procter & Gamble is pleased to announce a Tracer Workshop on 24 February 2016 in Brussels. Please find the complete invitation attached.

Interested? THEN REGISTER HERE.

What is it about?

We intend to stimulate a cross-industry discussion to harmonise the use of tracers into plastic packaging materials. The workshop will focus on PET as a start and intends to create a precedent for other plastics later on.

We therefore would like to reach out to all interested parties (brand owners, green dot organisations, EU institutions, plastics converters, resin/masterbatch producers, recycling line and optical detection machine vendors, recyclers, waste management companies, research institutes, etc.) in order to have an open dialogue on this subject. The main objective is to talk and solve this problem as an industry (e.g. very similar approach as the introduction of barcodes on a pack) and align on basic principles and paths forward.

Please note that only technical topics will be discussed during that meeting. Commercial discussions won't be allowed.
 

Programme

Welcome – Patrick Peuch, Petcore Europe & Gian De Belder, P&G

Introductions and Anti-trust review – Ingrid Verschueren, EuPC (European Plastics Converters)

Overview of active tracer programmes and need for industry harmonization – Gian De Belder, P&G 

Presentations:

• Polymark project – Polymark Consortium
• PETCycle project – P&G & partners
• Reflex project – Axion & partners
• PRISM (Packaging Rapid Intelligent Sorting System for Materials) project – Edward Kosior, NEXTEK
• Tracer efforts NAPCOR/Plastipak Inc – Tom Busard, NAPCOR

Discussion: How can we align on an industry standard?

Registration

To view the delegate rates and to register, please click here.

Date & Venue

Wednesday, 24 February 2016 (time tbc)
VLEVA Conference Centre, Avenue de Cortenbergh 71, 1000 Brussels

Petcore Europe Conference: 23 February 2016 - Brussels

The annual Petcore Europe Conference is held in Brussels on 23 February in the same venue. This is therefore the perfect opportunity to combine your participation in our Tracer Workshop with another one to the conference the day before. Interested? Then click here for more information.

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Eva Schneider, Petcore Europe Communications Officer, via eva.schneider@petcore-europe.org.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our workshop!