Article Source: IMechE
This event will bring together engineers, scientists and other professionals from the industry, all who are wanting to make a real difference when it comes to plastic waste.
Early bird ends 24 May 2019
Booking multiple tickets (group discounts available) or on behalf of someone else? Email us
Overview
“Plastic is durable, easily molded, light, hygienic and eminently recyclable. Yet when not recycled its first property becomes a liability to humans, animals and the environment. Engineers play a key role all around the plastic cycle; this seminar is intended to share best practice, current challenges both technical and non-technical and enhance the engineers contribution to society in this field.”
Rodney Gilmour, Chair, Closing the Plastics Cycle 2019
Do you stop and think about the plastic waste when you are drinking a fizzy drink or eating a bag of crisps? Our environment was not made to manage plastic waste; it is a man-made product for which we must take responsibility; it is simply not acceptable to chuck it into a landfill or the sea. There is good news, in the UK we recover 85% of our HDPE milk bottles, but then what? Would it be better overall to incinerate all our waste and recover the energy? Or pyrolyse waste plastic to fuel?
This unique seminar plans to address the current plastics cycle, along with best practice and new ways of helping to reduce plastic waste.
Attendees will be brought up to date on plastic reduction schemes such as the one introduced by DEFRA at the end of March. Companies such as Coca Cola have joined this bottle deposit scheme and are planning to ensure all its packaging is recyclable and its PET bottles comprise of 50% recycled material by 2025. Tesco are trialling taking back plastic bags and wrappers and working with Recycling Technologies to pyrolyse this waste to fuel.
And, whilst this event will focus on the positives that are being done it will also address some of the greater challenges that countries such as the UK face when it comes to plastic waste and how engineers are leading the way to make a difference.
Attend this seminar to:
- Help tackle the issue of reducing plastic waste across the whole cycle
- Hear from leading companies that are playing their part
- Review current government policy
- Network with engineers who want to shape a brighter future and reduce plastic waste
Confirmed speakers include:
- Barry Turner, Plastics and Flexible Packaging, Group Director, British Plastics Federation
- Senior Representative, WRAP
- Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy, Axion
Organising Committee:
Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee, Process Industries Division
Member Credit:
Rodney Gilmour, Member of the Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Early bird ends 24 May 2019
Booking multiple tickets (group discounts available) or on behalf of someone else? Email us
Accommodation information
For hotels with preferential rates close to the event venue, please visit www.eventay.co.uk/Eventsv5/Evnt_Home.aspx?evnt=8488ME
Day 1
08:30 – Seminar Programme
TUESDAY, 2 JULY 2019 | |
08:30 | REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS |
09:00 | CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS
Rodney Gilmour, Oil, Gas and Chemical Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers |
09:10
MORNING KEYNOTE
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LET’S SET THE PLASTICS SCENE – WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON
Barry Turner, Plastics and Flexible Packaging, Group Director, British Plastics Federation
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INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES | |
09:40 | ARLA FOODS’ APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING AND WASTE REDUCTION
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10:05 | CREATING A CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM TO REDUCE PLASTIC WASTE
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10:30 | QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION |
10:45 | NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK |
11:15
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THE POLICY EVOLUTION – WHAT’S ON THE PLASTICS HORIZON
Senior Representative, Suez Recycling & Recovery UK
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11:45
PANEL DISCUSSION
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PREVENTION RATHER THAN MANAGEMENT
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12:45 | QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION |
13:00 | NETWORKING LUNCH |
CURRENT MEASURES AND PROJECTS | |
14:00
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE |
THE ROADMAP TO 2025 – THE PLASTICS PACT
Senior Representative, WRAP
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14:30 |
PROJECT LODESTAR – THE FUTURE OF PLASTIC RECYCLING
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15:00 |
TACKLING PLASTIC WASTE ON A LOCAL LEVEL
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15:15 | QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION |
15:45 | NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK |
16:15 | PRODUCING SUSTAINABLE PLASTICS
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16:45 | CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN ACTION
Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy, Axion
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17:15 | QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION |
17:30 | CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS |
17:40 | END OF SEMINAR |