Circular Plastics NL

A deep dive into food contact safety & recycling plastic packaging developments: CPNL Meetup 🗓️ Mark your calendars for June 13, our upcoming CPNL meetup at the Van der Valk Hotel in Gorinchem. 🔄 This meetup is a must-attend for all members across the food packaging value chain, where we'll be sharing insights and innovations in materials, formats, and processes for recycling plastic food packaging. 🎙️ We're honored to have Kris Callaert as our keynote speaker, who will shed light on the current safety and legal framework. Confirmed speakers also include: ⚪ Sorting and design for recycling | KIDV | Anne-Marth Vrind | Project Manager ⚪ Sustainable business practices mechanical recycling | Morssinkhof Plastics  | Matthijs Veerman | Business Development Manager ⚪ High-quality recycling solutions | Synova | Joerg Krueger | CEO Bridging the gap to the Value Chain at scale | Shell | Arjan Gerrits | Marketing & Sales Manager Sustainability & Decarbonisation Chemicals ⚪ Converting flexibles |  OPACKGROUP | Rob Verhagen | Sustainability Director ⚪ Converting rigids | Dijkstra Plastics | Remy Notten | Commercial Director ⚪ Bottlenecks & solutions  | Louis Jetten | Program Manager CPNL 🌍 Circular Plastics NL (CPNL) is an initiative within Nationaal Groeifonds. The goal is to make plastics fully circular and use subsidies to accelerate the transition. The program is focused on bottlenecks in different value chains to close the cycles for existing plastics. We encourage you to join and think along with the CPNL calls and are looking forward to this meetup as another opportunity to accelerate plastics circularity. #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #FoodPackaging #Recycling #Innovation #groeifonds #groeivermogen #foodcontactsafety

On Thursday, 13 June, the CPNL Meetup on Recycling of Food Packaging took place in Gorinchem. At this event, knowledge and innovation led to societal impact as our visitors explored the technical implications and advancements in the field. Around 80 attendees from science and the private sector joined us to delve into the role of food-contact-approved polyolefins in enabling circularity for food packaging. The event was led by Kim Coppes and inspiring presentations were delivered by Job Ridderbecks on the importance of food safety and legal guidance, and Anne-Marth Vrind on the recycling targets for the Dutch market. Entrepreneurs conducted sessions on the roles of mechanical and chemical recyclers Joerg Krueger, Arjan Gerrits and challenges for converting plastics intended for contact with food by Rob Verhagen and Remy Notten. Matthijs Veerman from Morssinkhof - Rymoplast hosted a session on their ambitious project 'cap-to-cap-recycling' which has received CPNL funding. Visitors had the opportunity to engage directly with our program managers Louis Jetten, Roland ten Klooster, Mark Demuynck, Joop Groen to support food contact recycling initiatives. Read more in the news report on our website: https://lnkd.in/eepi27tY CPNL will continue to address this important topic in upcoming events. Save the dates: 18 and 19 September at Kunststoffenbeurs, and 7 November during 'Transition to Circularity' in Amersfoort. We look forward to seeing you again!

The future of Plastics is heavily determined by People and the Power they exercise. The great challenges we face in our attempts to create a sustainable space for plastics in the circular economy, cannot be solved by engineering sciences alone. Rather, in a systemic view, our technological solutions will thrive – or founder – due to other factors, such as politics, economics, and consumers. As the appointed Professor of Circular Plastics at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Prof. Dr. Kim Ragaert explores the challenges and solutions in creating a sustainable future for plastics within the circular economy. 🌍 Join us live today for Dr. Ragaert's inaugural lecture titled "Plastics, People, and Power", in which she will explore the intersection of technology, politics, economics, and consumer behavior in creating a sustainable future for plastics! 📅 Thursday 4 July 🕒 16:30 🎥 https://lnkd.in/d9m8BWsp #CircularEconomy #Circularity #PlasticsRecycling #Sustainability #InauguralLecture #UMfse

Incubator kicks off: 6 million euros allocated for research on making plastics circular. https://lnkd.in/eGHc9322 Within the CPNL Incubator program of the Nationaal Groeifonds, foundational research targets early-stage developments (TRL 1-4) with significant potential for large-scale applications. NWO (Dutch Research Council) has selected ten projects submitted by universities, hbo, and TO2 institutions following their assessment process. With six million euros in funding and co-financing from companies, these projects will span up to five years and focus on: - Design of circular plastics - New characterization, sorting, and waste techniques - New recycling techniques Selected Projects: - PolyPulse: Selective polymer recycling by intense light flashes. Consortium: TU Eindhoven, Veridis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), Sven Askes, Charusheela Ramanan, Ph.D., Fabian Eisenreich - Self-assembling Polyolefin Network Materials: New recyclable polyolefin materials. Consortium: Gdansk University of Technology, SABIC, University of Groningen, Patrizio Raffa. - Solid CIRface: Composites with dynamic bonds for full recycling. Consortium: AOC Resins, Marlan Solid Surface, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, University of Groningen, Katja Loos. - Towards Circular Use of Pigments in the Recycling of Plastics: Recovering and reusing pigments in PET recycling. Consortium: CuRe Technology, Holland Colours, Utrecht University, Bert Weckhuysen. - Improving Plastics Circularity through Simplified Quality Assessment based on the Microplastics Index: Developing a tool for rapid quality assessment of plastics. Consortium: Plastics Europe AISBL, TU Eindhoven, TNO, Arjen Boersma. - Top-down Covalent Adaptable and Circular Epoxy Networks: Making epoxy-amine networks recyclable. Consortium: Westlake Epoxy, Maastricht University, Katrien Bernaerts. - Sustainable and Fire-safe Plastics based on Fully Organic Phosphorus-Sulfur Compounds (SuFiP-S): Developing new recyclable PP/FR materials. Consortium: SABIC, Maastricht University, Ali Gooneie. - CLEANpack: Towards food-safe Closed-Loop rEcycling of pAckagiNg. Consortium: Basell Polyolefine, BASF Chemetall, Danone S.A., The Kraft Heinz Company, Maastricht University, Ghent University, Steven De Meester. - Design for Recycling and Effective/Secure Sealing of High-barrier Mono-material Flexible Packaging Films: Developing recyclable and sealable mono-materials. Consortium: Borealis, Cargill Bioindustrial, TNO, Universiteit Twente, Roland ten Klooster. - Catalytic Extrusion for Recycling of Plastic Waste: New catalytic extrusion techniques for better plastic recycling. Consortium: Carboliq, Coperion, Ruhr University, Maastricht University, Utrecht University, Ina Vollmer.

It's really not that difficult. As part of our Directive on single-use plastics, as of today the obligation to attach caps and lids to beverage containers starts to apply. Caps for beverage are among the 10 most commonly found single-use plastic items on European beaches. It will help us: ♻ Increase recycling rates ♻ #BeatPlasticPollution 💚 Prevent caps from being swallowed by animals, damaging their health Learn more 👉 https://europa.eu/!QRkw8Y Don't know how to drink from a bottle anymore? We got you covered 👇 #ZeroPollution #CircularEconomy © ✏️ Gatis Šļūka

🗓️ Webinar Green Chemistry and Circular Plastics in China: Developments and Cooperation | 2 July 9:00 – 10:00 (open Q&A afterwards) Curious about the latest #developments in #greenchemistry and #circularplastics in #China? Want to understand what that means for your field of work? Join our webinar to get an introduction to the latest #trends, hear from peers about their #collaboration with China, and how it works with #intellectualpropertyrights. Sign up for the webinar by sending an email with your name and organization to China-IA@minbuza.nl. The webinar is part of the preparation for the Green Chemistry and Circular Plastics mission to China from 9 – 13 September, which will focus on #CircularPlastics, #BiobasedChemistry and #CarbonCaptureUtilization. More information can be found via: https://lnkd.in/grr8dC7C This webinar and mission are organized by us together with ChemistryNL and Netherlands Enterprise Agency . It is supported by Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat and Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat. Innovatie Attaché Netwerk / IA (Netherlands Innovation Network) | Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in China | Consulate General of the Netherlands in Guangzhou | Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai

💡 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐢 𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐰𝐬: 𝐰𝐢𝐣 𝐠𝐚𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭: 𝐔𝐏𝐓𝐘𝐑𝐄 🚀 Onder leiding van penvoerder RecyBEM | Band en Milieu gaan we met een prachtig consortium aan de slag met het ontwikkelen van nieuwe technologieën voor het detecteren, scheiden én sorteren van rubber autobanden. Het doel is om de sorteer- en voorbehandelingsprocessen te verbeteren, zodat de efficiëntie en kwaliteit van de recyclingoutput aanzienlijk kan toenemen. Dit verhoogt het hergebruik van gedevulkaniseerd rubber in nieuwe autobanden en andere hoogwaardige toepassingen. Dit project wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door: Nationaal Groeifonds en Circular Plastics NL. Lees hier meer over het project 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTGSdKJQ En houdt deze LinkedIn-pagina in de gaten voor meer updates over het project. Het consortium bestaat uit: RecyBEM | Band en Milieu (penvoerder) | Hogeschool Windesheim - Techniek | University of Twente | Reedijk Used Tyres | Kargro Recycling | Apollo Tyres Ltd | Avantes | SPECTRAL Industries | Rubber Resources B.V. | New Born Rubber. #rubber #recycling #tyres #devulkanisatie #praktijkgericht #onderzoek

De subsidie omschakeling plastic verwerkers is open voor aanvragen. ⬇️

#PRSE24 Preps... Almost ready for business at the world’s largest plastics recycling event! Look for the Circular Plastics NL corner booth, X6, in Hall 10, easy to find by its unique circular banner hanging in the air (not the square one, that's Morssinkhof - Rymoplast :-)). Stop by, meet the team and partners, and align your project with the upcoming subsidy topics. RAI Amsterdam opens at 9 a.m. tomorrow and Thursday. Forgot to register? Visitors can still register for free at: www.prseventeurope.com #tradeshows #PRSE24 #financethetransition #accelerate #recycling #plastics #exhibit Susanne Waaijers - van der Loop Carlijn Röell Maurits Boeije Maurice Olivers Martine Brandsma Marc Spekreijse Mark Demuynck Joop Groen Jolanda Kraaikamp Tom Claessen

Meet us and let’s work together on the future of plastics & recycling. Booth X6!