24
Mar
12:00
- 14:00
Brightlands Science Lecture by Professor Kim Ragaert
In plastics recycling, ‘quality’ is high on everybody’s list, but techno-scientific methods to either quantify or predict this quality are lacking. Furthermore, it is known that post-consumer recycled plastics are typically cross-contaminated with small percentages of other polymers or with other components like adhesives or barrier layers.
However, the exact effect of such contaminations on recyclate quality remains fuzzy. Using fundamentals from polymer materials science, prof. Ragaert will guide us through the development of her Recycling Quality model. Via the concept of substitutability, this technical quality can then be translated into the LCA domain as well.
Program
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Welcome by Moderator Yvonne van der Meer, AMIBM-UM |
| 12:05 | Kickstarter by Harold Gankema, Program Manager Circular Packaging, Brightlands Materials Center on Challenges in making packaging circular |
| 12:15 | Brightlands Science Lecture by Professor Kim Ragaert, Full Professor, Chair of Circular Plastics, at Maastricht University on Quality concepts in plastics recycling |
| 12:45 | Q&A |
| 12:55 | Table Dialogue with Professor Kim Ragaert, Harold Gankema and additional table guests: Olaf Fennis, Manager Engineering at Renewi and Bart Dautzenberg, Senior Project Manager, Corporate Sustainability at SABIC |
| 13:55 | Joint Lunch in the Foyer (when possible because of corona) |
| 14:00 | End |
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