Bioplastic Packaging Design: Safe, Sustainable and Recyclable

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 will showcase innovation and plans related to sustainable bioplastic packaging with input from Horizon Europe projects such as Be-UP, GRECO, BioPackMan, E-OILE’, UPCYCLE and ReBioCycle, but also with EUBP members.

• Location: Titanic Chaussee Berlin Hotel, Chausseestrasse 30, 10115 Berlin. Room Stuttgart, 1st floor.
• Time: 17:00 to 19:00 and aperitivo afterwards.

Talks – 17:00 – 18:00

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

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

17:05 – 17:20 – Packaging Design from bioplastic materials – Jörn Behage (ARAPAHA) ReBioCycle project

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 project

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

Project pitches – 18:00- 18:15

• E-OILE' – María José Suárez, Gaiker
• BioPackMan – Tatjana Kosanovic, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
• UPCYCLE – Cristiano Varrone, Aalborg University
• GRECO – Samira El Bir, Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites
• Be-UP – tbc

Matchmaking – 18:20 – 19:00

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

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

• 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

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