Advanced Recycling Conference 2023 to focus on innovative solutions

Fibre2Fashion, the knowledge and media partner for the Advanced Recycling Conference, will present its knowledge paper titled ‘From Waste to Wonder: An In-Depth Exploration of Plastic Recycled Yarn and its Sustainable Impact’ at the event.

All new and innovative recycling solutions will be covered by the conference such as physical processes based on extrusion and dissolution, chemical processes based on solvolysis, biochemical processes based on enzymolysis, as well as thermochemical processes based on pyrolysis, thermal depolymerisation, gasification, and incineration with Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU), organiser nova-Institut GmbH said in a press release.

Topics that will be presented at the Advanced Recycling Conference include markets and policy, circular economy and ecology of plastics, physical recycling, biochemical recycling, chemical recycling, thermochemical recycling, other advanced recycling technologies, and upgrading as well as pre- and post-treatment technologies.

The Advanced Recycling Conference aims to provide an overview and in-depth insight into all available recycling technologies for various streams of different plastics wastes as well as into political topics and environmental impacts. The conference will offer a new home for technology providers, related industries, waste management companies, brands, and investors as well as policy makers and scientists active in the versatile and interdisciplinary field of recycling. By bringing together all relevant topics and experts, the event will provide a framework for new partnerships, ideas, approaches, and value chains.

With 230 participants from 21 countries, the Advanced Recycling Conference 2022 was a great success and gave attendees the opportunity to discuss future opportunities and celebrate technology success stories. The variety of presentations and speakers showed that many of the ambitious recycling goals can only be achieved jointly, added the release.

One of the event’s focus topics was the polymer PET, which is part of numerous waste streams with vastly different recycling requirements. In consequence, PET waste streams are as diverse as the recycling technologies tackling this issue. Yet, the Advanced Recycling Conference proved that new and unique solutions are already available to the market, e.g., various twin-screw extruder setups. Those extruders can function as reactors for chemical recycling processes, as well as pre- and post-treatment elements and realise high throughputs of up to 20 t/h. They depolymerise PET into its building units that then can be reintroduced into the production cycle, chemical PET recycling techniques like the intensely discussed solvolysis utilise solvents or other chemicals to initiate alcoholysis or hydrolysis. Thus, advanced recycling technologies secure the renewable carbon supply for the chemical and materials industry.

While the deadline for submitting abstracts is August 30, 2023, posters can be submitted until October 15, 2023. Exhibitors can also make their bookings on the Advanced Recycling Conference’s website.

The offline venue for Advanced Recycling Conference 2023 is Maternushaus, Kardinal-Frings-Str. 1-3, in Cologne, Germany.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (NB)