The Plastics Recycling Expo (PRE) exhibition and conference will take place at the Telford International Centre in the United Kingdom 14-15 June 2016. The event’s organisers describe it as “a unique opportunity to survey the opportunities and challenges for plastics recycling in the U.K.”
As it has in the past, the PRE forms part of the larger PDM Event, designed to cover wider aspects of plastics design and molding.
The two-day PRE conference features speakers from Tesco, WRAP, the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) and BPF Recycling Group, as well as academics, policy and compliance specialists and representatives of the packaging and design industries, say the organisers.
Among the companies scheduled to exhibit at PRE are ARTEC Machinery, Axion Recycling, Biffa Polymers, Blue Sky Plastics, BPI Recycled Products, Cofit, Erema, Gamma Meccanica, Gneuss Kunststofftechnik, LARAC, Manifattura Russo Filippo, Netzsch Instruments, Plasgran, Plastic Recycling Van Werven, Tecnova and Tivaco.
Speakers and their topics include:
- Ian Sorensen, group head of consumables and waste and recycling procurement at Tesco, who will talk about how the retailer has closed the plastic recycling loop by offering single-use carry bags made from its own plastic scrap;
- Claire Shrewsbury, packaging programme manager at WRAP, will focus on improving sorting and developing end markets;
- Stuart Foster, CEO of RECOUP, will speak on finding and developing new markets for recycled plastic material;
- Stuart Kershaw, trading sales manager at Viridor Waste Management, will ask if designers have a role to play in making pots, tubs and trays more widely recycled; and
- Keith Freegard, a director at Axion Recycling, will address the issue of keeping plastics recovery facilities viable and sustainable in the current economic environment.