In addition to providing industry leaders, brands, investors, and legislators with a vital platform for navigating the changing regulatory environment and investigating new recycling opportunities, ARC 2024 promises priceless insights into new trends and collaborative opportunities in both physical and chemical recycling.
In order to address urgent challenges including e-waste valorisation, PVC recycling, textile recycling, and advanced recycling procedures for engineering thermoplastics, the Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2024 will broaden its focus this year beyond traditional plastic packaging. The conference will also showcase creative funding approaches that are necessary for these developments.
ARC, which will take place online and in Cologne, Germany on November 20–21, 2024, will bring together policymakers, scholars, and business leaders to discuss innovative approaches and technology that have the potential to transform sustainability.
The largest advanced recycling conference in Europe examines cutting-edge technology and game-changing tactics that are altering sustainability.
The biggest advanced recycling conference in Europe
The 2023 event saw approximately 300 guests from 26 countries, a 30% increase over the previous year. ARC has now established itself as the largest advanced recycling conference in Europe. This year’s program, which features the biggest roster to date with 46 speakers, highlights this position. Innovative technologies like dissolving, depolymerization, pyrolysis, and gasification with Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) will be introduced in dedicated sessions. Policy matters including the EU’s recycling goals of up to 70% for packaging and 55% for plastics will also be covered.
In addition to providing industry leaders, brands, investors, and legislators with a vital platform for navigating the changing regulatory environment and investigating new recycling opportunities, ARC 2024 promises priceless insights into new trends and collaborative opportunities in both physical and chemical recycling.
Handling the upcoming issues in recycling
The conference will offer a number of engaging seminars that cover every facet of the complex field of advanced recycling and are led by professionals in the field. These topics will include:
Views on Advanced Plastics Recycling, Markets, Funding, and Investments
The sector and kind of polymer determine the recycling requirements. This perspective will be used to discuss issues including recycling capacities and technologies, their complementing applications, engineering and commodity thermoplastic solutions, and e-waste plastics. Additional subjects include funding and investor perspectives, as well as price dynamics and market evolution in the plastics recycling sector.
Dissolution Technologies for PS, Engineering, and Commodity Plastic Recycling
Targeted polymers from mixed plastic wastes are dissolved by this solvent-based technique while maintaining the polymer’s chemical structure. The dissolved target polymer can be used to remove other undissolved plastic components, such as additives, colors, fillers, and non-targeted polymers. Using physical recycling techniques and dissolution technologies, the session discusses the extraction or purification of polymers from PS and technical plastics (such as ABS).
A Journey Using Various Depolymerization Technologies from Polymer to Building Units and Back to Polymer
Depolymerization, which is aided by heat, radiation, catalysts, or the inclusion of chemicals and enzymes, breaks down plastic debris and even textiles into their constituent building blocks, such as monomers, which can then be used to produce new polymers. Enzymatic recycling, solvolysis, and thermal depolymerization are discussed in the session.
Recycling of Thermochemicals
Pyrolysis is a multipurpose process that can be used to create a variety of products for the chemical and plastics industries as well as to supplement mechanical recycling. Different products with varying quality can be obtained to realize either closed or open recycling loops, depending on the reactor and reaction architecture.
PET Depolymerization Technologies
Depolymerization, which is aided by liquid or solid chemicals and enzymes, breaks down PET trash and even textiles into their constituent building blocks, such as monomers, which can subsequently be used to produce polymers. There will be more in-depth information on solvolysis, enzymolysis, and solid-state hydrolysis.
Before/After Therapy and Improvement
All of the cutting-edge recycling technologies are connected by these technologies, or enablers. Higher yields and better product quality are realized by the procedures outlined here, which also raise the bar for recycling.
Perspectives on Mass-balance, Sustainability, Policy, and Alternative Naphtha
In addition to deeper insights into Chemical Recycling for the Production of Alternative Naphtha and the current state of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Recycling, the most recent updates about EU policies on Chemical Recycling and Mass Balance and Attribution will be discussed.
Visit https://advanced-recycling.eu/program/ to view the entire program.
