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# Sustainable Packaging Summit: Design-for-recycling vs recycling realities
- URL: https://packaging-europe.ghost.io/sustainable-packaging-summit-design-for-recycling-vs-recycling-realities/
- Published: 2023-12-18T13:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-27T08:44:06.000Z
- Author: Packaging Europe staff writers
- Tags: SPS on Demand, R&D (Sustainable Packaging Summit), #layout-s, #type-article, #packaging-europe, #Import 2026-09-08 15:47

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Recycling expert Julian Thielen explores the disconnect between the capabilities of sorting plants built for multiwall packaging and the new generations of downgauged and mono substrates. Highlighting challenges for sorting and recycling that arise from packaging design, Julian points to possible future solutions.

**Speaker:**  

- Julian Thielen of **Interseroh+**

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