Webinar: Recycled plastics

Event Overview

With demand currently outstripping supply, particularly for food grade packaging plastics, many FMCGs, manufacturers and converters are finding sourcing the feedstock they require to hit regulatory and sustainability goals challenging. Sourcing recycled resins in a growing, opaque, and increasingly competitive market has proven to be difficult across the packaging sector. Driven by regulation and consumer pressure, it remains one of the industry’s most pressing challenges.

Hear ICIS industry experts discuss the challenges the plastics market face and the consequences for the sustainability agenda in the market.

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Learning Objectives

• Suitable for both new entrants and experienced industry professionals looking to advance their understanding of sustainability in the chemicals market
• Discover current sustainability challenges and hear from analysts and editors directly on the changing landscape of virgin vs recycled plastics
• Introduction to chemical recycling and the realities of an ideal world

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Meet your Speakers and Host

Helen McGeough
Senior Analyst - ICIS

Helen McGeough, Senior Analyst at ICIS, has 20+ years’ experience in consultancy. She currently leads market analysis for global recycled polymer markets, specialising in RPET, working with contacts across the supply chain from collection, reclamation through to end users.

Mark Victory
Senior Editor, Recycling - ICIS

Mark Victory, Senior Editor for recycling at ICIS, joined the company in 2008 and has been the editor for 23 separate petrochemical and fertilizer markets. He was also the chief editor of the ICIS Global Automotive report.

Matt Tudball
Senior Editor, Recycling - ICIS

Matt Tudball, Senior Editor for recycling at ICIS, joined the company in 2012 and has previously been the editor for Turkey & Africa Polymers and Head of European Markets at ICIS.

Elisabeth Skoda (Host)
Editor - Packaging Europe

Coming from a background of translation and online news editing, Elisabeth has been with Packaging Europe since 2006, and in this time has developed a broad understanding of the packaging industry and an appreciation of the numerous innovations and developments that have come up over the years. As editor of Packaging Europe’s new magazine Touchpoints, she has a keen interest in packaging functionality and the consumer experience.