How to design bioplastic packaging to make it safe, sustainable, recyclable and also compliant? Which outstanding results have been produced in research in the last months?

This in-person event showcases innovation and plans related to sustainable bioplastic packaging with input from Horizon Europe projects such as Be-UP, GRECO, BioPackMan, E-OILE’, and UPCYCLE, but also projects focusing on recycling bioplastics, such as MoeBIOS and ReBioCycle, but also from European Bioplastics members.

Practical information

• Location: Titanic Chaussee Berlin Hotel, Chausseestrasse 30, 10115 Berlin. Room Stuttgart, 1st floor.
• Time: 17:00 to 19:00 with an aperitivo afterwards.
• Registration is open here.

Agenda

Talks – 17:00 – 18:00

Host: European Bioplastics – Estela López-Hermoso and Chiara Bearzotti

17:00- 17:05 – Welcome and overview of the event – European Bioplastics

17:05 – 17:20 – Packaging Design for bioplastic materials: A designer perspective – tbd

17:20 – 17:30 – What is changing in the legislative field: how to cope with the changes? – Julie Pieters (European Bioplastics)

17:30- 17:40 – Safe and Sustainable by Design: Biobased, biodegradable and compostable packaging – Gaelle Cavalie (Normec OWS)

17:40 – 17:50 – State-of-the-art recycling technologies for bioplastics – Pablo Ferrero Aguar (AIMPLAS) ReBioCycle

17:50 – 18:00 – Advancements on recycling biodegradable packaging – Miriam Lorenzo Navarro (ITENE) MoeBIOS

Project pitches: Sustainable Packaging – 18:00 – 18:20

• Be-UP – Alejandro Aragón, ITENE
• E-OILE – María José Suárez, Gaiker
• BioPackMan – Tatjana Kosanovic, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
• UPCYCLE – Cristiano Varrone, Aalborg University
• GRECO – Samira El Bir, IPC

Matchmaking on sustainable packaging and on recycling bioplastics – 18:20 – 19:00

Examples of innovative design for packaging materials from EU-funded projects. Participants will move around the high tables to the speaker assigned to each table. Every 10 minutes, the audience will be invited to move to the following table.

For whom

Industry and research representatives working on bioplastic packaging and interested in learning more about the application of the safe-and-sustainable-by-design framework to packaging.

Benefits

• Gain practical knowledge exchange on novel R&I activities
• Benefit from networking with other industrial stakeholders
• Explore collaborations with bioplastic packaging R&I projects and actors of the packaging value chain