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Session 2.05: Advancing Polymer Recycling: Methods & Policy for a Sustainable Transition
Time:
Thursday, 11/Sept/2025:
9:35am - 11:05am
Session Chair: Paola Federica Albizzati, Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Spain Session Chair: Carlo Brondi, CNR, Italy
Presentations
(15 minutes)
A market share-based model for the avoided burden approach of life cycle assessment considering future decarbonization in industries: A case of polymer recycling
Kazuma Hirata, Daiki Kata, Jun Nakatani
The University of Tokyo, Japan
(15 minutes_S)
Advancing Polymer Recycling: Integrating HydroPRT with Complementary Technologies
Stuart Coles1, Matthew Ozoemena1, Robert Heymer1, You Wu1, Geoff Brighty2
1WMG, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK, CV4 7AL; 2Mura Technology Limited, LDN:W Level 4, 3 Noble Street, London, UK, EC2V 7EE
(15 minutes)
Quality of waste feedstock and quality of recyclate: zero burden or (how much?) avoided burden?
Steven De Meester
Ghent University, Belgium
(15 minutes)
Quantifying the Environmental Costs of Phasing Out Legacy Substances for Plastics in Germany's Building and Infrastructure Sector
Sarah Schmidt1, Thomas Gibon2, David Laner1
1Research Center for Resource Management and Solid Waste Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Kassel, Mönchebergstraße 7, 34125 Kassel, Germany; 2SUSTAIN research unit, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), 5 avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
(6 minutes_S)
Effect of Feedstock Modelling and Multiple Loops of Polymer Recycling in environmental profile calculation
Giovanni Dotelli
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
(6 minutes)
How to integrate market and policy instruments like mass balance fuel use excluded into the LCA of recycled materials?
Maximilian Menche, Christian Krüger
BASF SE, Germany
(6 minutes)
Polymer Recycling and Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview of End-of-Life Allocation Approaches and Their Implications
Maria Evgenia Papavasileiou, Wouter van Kootwijk
Ecomatters, Netherlands, The
(6 minutes)
European Initiatives supporting Assessing Environmental Impact of Polymers in Recycling and Life Cycle Contexts
Carlo Brondi, Matteo Cordara
CNR, Italy
(Short Oral + Poster)
Modeling WEEE Recycling with Life Cycle Assessment: the case study of an Italian Treatment Plant
Federico Iorio Esposito1, Alessandro Salvi1, Giovanni Dotelli1, Paola Gallo Stampino1, Laura Borghi2, Martina Scoponi2
1Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica, Italy; 2Stena Recycling
