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EuskeraWaste as a competitive source of resources
5th thematic parallel session
19/09/2017
Closing the materials loops is one of the priorities of the European Union’s Circular Economy Action Plan, not only to lower the environmental impact but also to secure a supply that is stable in price and quantity in order to make the European economy more resilient to fluctuations in the raw materials market.
Valuable materials still continue to end up in landfill. Innovative technical solutions combined with the appropriate policy instruments are still needed to close the loops. However, recycling waste is only viable if there is a real market for products manufactured with a smaller environmental footprint using secondary materials and if, from an integral approach, synergies between different value chains and private-public partnership are strengthened.
This parallel session will focus on secondary materials and leave the extremely important recovery of components and products to other sessions. It will analyse case studies of integral solutions to close the materials loop. It will consider the challenges of complex materials and scraps recycling, generally plastic-metal waste flows. It will also show the reality of the manufacturing of products using secondary material envisaged in the new EC Plastics Strategy.
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1:00 p.m.
The Basque County, an industrial symbiosis and circular economy laboratory. 50 business projects, lessons learnt and recommendations
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1:10 p.m.
The Basque experience in C&DW and steelworks by-product closing cycles. Private-public solutions aimed at fostering the consumption of secondary material in construction
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1:30 p.m.
Socially innovative solutions when closing the textile cycle. Generating competitive products for the textile industry, automotive and construction market
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1:45 p.m.
Closing the aluminium cycle by developing new value solutions. Developing competitive products based on recycling waste from the aluminium industry.
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2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Break. (Free time for lunch)
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3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Coffee. Networking area
Joint meeting of all delegates.
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Block 2: Optimising the recovery of materials of value on plastic-metal complex scrap
Block moderator: Hipólito Bilbao, Viceconsejería de Medio Ambiente, Basque Government
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4:00 p.m.
Regulatory changes of the European circular economy package. Challenges to deploy the European targets for zero waste in automotive and equipment and its implications
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4:10 p.m.
Recycling automotive plastics in practice. Recyclability versus the reality of recycling, operational-technological barriers and solutions being developed
4:20 p.m.Recycling complex scrap from electronic and electrical equipment and machinery. Current situation, operational-technological barriers and solutions being developed
4:30 p.m.Reducing alloy losses when recycling metal scrap. Results of the Kriteus eco-innovator project
4:45 p.m.LThe R&D&i road map for recycling Scrap Vehicles and WEEEs. Results of the European New Innonet project towards “zero waste”, beyond technology
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Block 3: New products using secondary plastic materials
Block moderator: Joseba Gonzalez Artaza, Viceconsejería de Medio Ambiente, Basque Government
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5:00 p.m.
The Plastics Strategy of the European Commission, vision of the industry. Pointers to foster the use of recycled material post-consumption and success stories
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5:15 p.m.
Towards new products using more affordable secondary carbon fibre. Transferrable and practical results of the C-Recycling eco-innovative project
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5:30 p.m.
Quality secondary material, fundamental for a reluctant industrial market. Recommendations to facilitate the incorporation of post-consumption and post-industrial recycled plastic to manufacture new products.
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5:40 p.m.
Composite recycling in the wind power sector
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5:50 p.m.
Diversifying the product range based on plastic waste. Experiences, innovative project results and practical recommendations.
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6:00 p.m. – Conclusions and closing session
