Conference Agenda

Session

Session 1.19: Evaluations of Circular and Low Carbon Plastic Value Chains towards sustainability Part I

Time:

Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025:

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Tomas Ekvall, Tomas Ekvall Research, Review & Assessment (TERRA), Sweden
Session Chair: Christian Krüger, BASF, Germany

Presentations

(15 minutes)

Net-zero chemical recycling routes for flexible polyurethane foams

Eleonora Bargiacchi, Luca Bosetti, Inès Lanfranconi-Schmid, Martin Pillich, André Bardow

Energy & Process Systems Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

(15 minutes)

Life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of waste plastic used in automobile production according to recycling methods

Jaeyeon Ahn, Wonjae Choi

Ewha womans university, Republic of Korea

(15 minutes_S)

Rethinking life cycle assessment with recycled polylactic acid - Harnessing Waste Streams as Feedstock for Biobased plastics Production

Maelenn Ravard¹, Ana Morao², Eleni Moutousidi²

¹TotalEnergies Corbion, The Netherlands; ²Corbion, The Netherlands

(15 minutes)

Life cycle assessment of a preindustrial chemical recycling process for chemical feedstock production

Darius Steegborn, Philip Biessey

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

(15 minutes)

Including impacts from littering in LCA: a case study of to-go cups

Christina Galafton¹, Vaibhav Budhiraja², Sarah Stevens³, Branka Mušič⁴, Daniel Maga¹

¹Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Oberhausen, Germany; ²National Institute of Chemistry (Kemijski inštitut), Ljubljana, Slovenia; ³Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ⁴Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

(15 minutes)

Evaluating the relative contribution of polymers and chemical additives in the environmental profile of plastic items.

Solène Lecointre¹, Jérôme Lavoie², Anne-Marie Boulay³, Cécile Bulle⁴

¹CentraleSupélec/AgroParisTech; ²CIRAIG, ESG UQAM, Canada; ³Chemical Engineering Department, CIRAIG, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada; ⁴CIRAIG, Canada, Stratégie et RSE CA, Canada