Conference Agenda

Session

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