What is PET Depolymerization Recycling?

PET Depolymerisation Recycling is innovative. It opens a completely new perspective on how to deal with the concerns about plastics and plastic waste. Bringing the PET bottles and food containers as well as polyester textiles back to its constituents, monomers or low molecular weight components that allow purification means in principle endless re-use of these PET building blocks.

This will improve the circularity of PET since colours, additives and other polymers in multi-layer constructions will be from now on fully recyclable. PET Depolymerisation Recycling helps solving the waste problem by giving all PET waste value. After all efforts from consumers and by the industry to collect and sort the plastic, we can give a guarantee that PET is recycled and does not leave the circle to incineration or landfill. If you are interested to learn more about PET Depolymerisation, please check out our dedicated Depolymerisation Website.

The objective of this online webinar is to highlight an important position of PET Depolymerisation recycling as a viable addition to the established mechanical recycling process, enhancing the circularity of PET & to discuss the current challenges of the industry.

Agenda | 2 PM CET | 19 OCTOBER 2023

2:00–2:05 PM: Welcome & Introduction by Raphael Jaumotte (Petcore Europe)

2:05 –2:15 PM: Overview of PET Depolymerization Status by Bruno Langlois (Carbios)

2:15 –2:25 PM: Regulatory Update, EC 10/2011 and EU 2022/1616, SUP and Reach by Leonor Garcia (E&ACT)

2:25–2:35 PM: Specific BHET processes by Jesper van Berkel (Indorama Ventures) 

2:35–3:45 PM: Individual updates by the companies involved in the Petcore Europe’s Depolymerization WG

Speakers:

Fabian Lambert(Axens)

Bruno Langlois (Carbios)  

Marco Brons (Cure Technology)

Bardiya Valizadeh (DePoly)

Inari Seppa (Eastman) 

Dirk Köhlmann (Equipolymers)

Guido Fragiacomo (Garbo)

3:45–4:00 PM: Coffee Break

 4:00–5:10 PM: Individual updates by the companies involved in the Petcore Europe’s Depolymerization WG

 Speakers :

Anwar Majal (Gr3n)

Louie Mackee (Ineos)

Jeroen Bulk (Ioniqa)

Kevin C. O’Dowd (Loop Industries)  

Carsten Eichert( RITTEC) 

5:10–5:20 PM: Q&A Session

 5:20–5:30 PM: Updates on the Flake Injection by Keith Kilmartin (PET Europe)

5:30–5:40 PM: Updates on textile recycling by Christian Crepet (Petcore Europe)

 5:40–6:00 PM: Q&A and Closing Session