Conference Agenda

(15 minutes_S)

Life Cycle Assessment of PVC Recycling: Expanding Recyclable Fractions through the CIRC-PVC Project

Jean Metzmacher, Angélique Léonard

University of Liège, Belgium

(15 minutes)

Defining and addressing the allocation problem at recycling

Tomas Ekvall

Tomas Ekvall Research, Review & Assessment (TERRA), Sweden

(15 minutes)

Designing novel bioplastics and their supply chains within planetary boundaries

Marie J. Jones^1,2, Arthur Chuat¹, Matthieu Souttre³, Vibhu Baibhav¹, Jana Lukic¹, Manuele Margni^3,4, Jeremy S. Luterbacher², François Maréchal¹

¹Industrial Energy Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Valais-Wallis, Sion, Switzerland.; ²Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.; ³CIRAIG, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.; ⁴Institute of Sustainable Energy, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western (HES-SO), Sion, Switzerland.

(15 minutes)

Plastic footprint: definition and operationalization

Elena Corella-Puertas¹, Nadim Saadi², Martina Gallato³, Magnus Fröhling¹, Anne-Marie Boulay²

¹Technical University of Munich (TUM), TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chair for Circular Economy and Sustainability Assessment, Am Essigberg 3, 94315 Straubing, Germany; ²CIRAIG, Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, 3333 Queen Mary Road, suite 310, H3V 1A2 Montréal, Québec, Canada; ³Earth Action (EA), Chemin des vignes d’argent 7, 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland

(Short Oral + Poster)

Advancing Sustainable Food Packaging: Life Cycle Assessment of PHBV Bioplastics in the ViSS Project Using the SSbD Framework

Inka-Mari Sarvola, Katri Behm

VTT, Finland

(6 minutes)

Characterizing circularity, climate and energy benefit of plastic recycling options using carbon flow and circular diagrams

Chengyao Zhang, Jun Nakatani

Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

(Short Oral + Poster)

Assessment of sustainability benefits using comparative LCA of recycled PET and virgin PET with a case study of fibers.

Karishma Sameer Tijoriwala, Nayan Sonawane, Harsha Reddy, Soumen Munshi, Avinash Chandra, Anand Sharma, Pattaraporn Khamhongsa, Vishwesh Pavnaskar, Samrat Bose

Indorama Ventures PCL

(Short Oral + Poster)

Life Cycle Assessment of a toy demonstrator, manufactured by recycled plastic toy waste

Despoina Antypa¹, Anastasia Gkika¹, Foteini Petrakli¹, Raquel Berbegal², Ana Ibáñez², Asunción Martínez², Elias P. Koumoulos¹

¹IRES, Belgium; ²AIJU, Spain

(Short Oral + Poster)

Advancing Plastics Disaggregation in Multi-Regional Input-Output Databases

Maddalen Ayala Cerezo¹, Albert Osei-Owusu², Maik Budzinski², Mathieu Delpierre¹, Philip L. Coenen¹, Jannick Schmidt^1,2

¹2-0 LCA consultants, Denmark; ²Aalborg University, Denmark