As part of ongoing H2020 BIOnTop Project dissemination programme, we are organising a Final Scientific Conference entitled:
“Innovations on SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS for textiles, coatings, films and other wide use applications.”
When: Thursday May 11th 2023
Time: from 8:30 a.m. to 15:30 p.m.
Where: Maritim Hotel Düsseldorf
Maritim-Platz 1
40474 Düsseldorf
Germany
How to get there
PROGRAMME

Start | Speaker | Title |
---|---|---|
08:30 | Registration | |
09:00 | Marco de la Feld (ENCO) Chiara Bearzotti (European Bioplastics) | Welcome, logistics, setting the framework |
09:10 | Rafael Alonso (AIMPLAS) | BIOnTop - Novel packaging films and textiles with tailored end of life and performance based on bio-based copolymers and coatings |
09:30 | Q&A | |
09:35 | Philippe Martinez (Centre Technique du Papier) | Celluwiz - Production of all cellulose packaging fully recyclable and biodegradable using two combined processes: MFC wet lamination and chromatogeny |
09:55 | Q&A | |
10:00 | Marta Redrado Notivoli (AITIIP) | MANDALA - A sustainable future for multilayer packaging |
10:20 | Q&A | |
10:25 | Maria Beatrice Coltelli (INSTM) | POLYBIOSKIN - High performance functional bio-based polymers for skin-contact products: plasticized bionanocomposites films |
10:45 | Q&A | |
10:50 | Coffee break | |
11:15 | Jose Lagaron (IATA-CSIC) | USABLE PACKAGING - Unlocking the potential of Sustainable BiodegradabLe Packaging |
11:35 | Q&A | |
11:40 | Willem Uyttendaele (Centexbel) | PRESERVE: PHA coating for fibre based packaging |
12:00 | Q&A | |
12:05 | Francesca Braca (ARCHA) | LCA and general sustainability in MANDALA |
12:25 | Q&A | |
12:30 | Steven Verstichel (OWS Normec) | Compostable and biodegradable materials part of a sustainable world - innovative examples of EU research |
12:50 | Q&A | |
12:55 | Lunch break | |
13:45 | Nico Snoeck (Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant) | REPurpose Rubbery plastics designed for recycling |
14:00 | Q&A | |
14:05 | Amparo Verdú Solís (ITENE) | SEALIVE project developments: Strategies of circular Economy and Advanced bio-based solutions to keep our Lands and seas allVE from plastics contamination |
14:20 | Q&A | |
14:25 | Enrique Moliner (LOMARTOV) | NENU2PHAR For a sustainable and european value chain of PHA-based materials for high-volume consumer products |
14:40 | Q&A | |
14:45 | Maria J. Lopez (Univ. Almeria) | RECOVER - Development of innovative biotic symbiosis for plastic biodegradation and synthesis to solve their end of life challenges in the agriculture and food industries |
15:00 | Q&A | |
15:05 | Patrizia Cinelli (Univ. Pisa) | ECOFUNCO- Eco sustainable multi Functional biobased Coatings with enhanced performance and end of life options |
15:20 | Q&A | |
15:25 | Closing Remarks |
Why this conference?
While modern economies highly depend on plastics in Europe with consumes in the range of 50 million tons per year, only 25-31% of the plastic waste in Europe is currently recycled and the larger share is incinerated or even landfilled (high variability between countries). We still landfill nearly 40-50% of plastic waste. Today, in Europe 70% of the packaging used in a wide variety of applications in different market sectors – including food, pharmaceuticals and clothing – is not recyclable. It consists mostly of multi-layer packaging, with each layer composed of different polymers that perform specific functions, making it technically non-recyclable. The end-of-life phase for this packaging, therefore, is either incineration or landfill. Moreover, the compostable bio-based packaging that is currently available mainly ends up in industrial composting facilities. This is because other biological waste treatment processes like anaerobic digestion and home composters are generally not suitable for most of the current compostable polymers.
What are the Potential Solutions?
In the past few years several projects funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Technology Initiative such as BIOnTop Project, Usable Packaging, CelluWiz, and many others have developed novel alternative solutions to ‘eco-design’ packaging products to avoid the incineration and landfill routes at their end-of-life phase, rerouting them instead towards approved and accepted applications, where they can add value without adding an environmental burden.
For whom is this conference?
This conference is open to representatives of projects and organisations working on the development bio-based packaging products that are biodegradable/ compostable and/or recyclable. It is open to research organisations, industrial representatives, but also to consumer organisations, recyclers and composting plant representatives.
While modern economies highly depend on plastics in Europe with consumes in the range of 50 million tons per year, only 25-31% of the plastic waste in Europe is currently recycled and the larger share is incinerated or even landfilled (high variability between countries). We still landfill nearly 40-50% of plastic waste. Today, in Europe 70% of the packaging used in a wide variety of applications in different market sectors – including food, pharmaceuticals and clothing – is not recyclable. It consists mostly of multi-layer packaging, with each layer composed of different polymers that perform specific functions, making it technically non-recyclable. The end-of-life phase for this packaging, therefore, is either incineration or landfill. Moreover, the compostable bio-based packaging that is currently available mainly ends up in industrial composting facilities. This is because other biological waste treatment processes like anaerobic digestion and home composters are generally not suitable for most of the current compostable polymers.
What are the Potential Solutions?
In the past few years several projects funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Technology Initiative such as BIOnTop Project, Usable Packaging, CelluWiz, and many others have developed novel alternative solutions to ‘eco-design’ packaging products to avoid the incineration and landfill routes at their end-of-life phase, rerouting them instead towards approved and accepted applications, where they can add value without adding an environmental burden.
For whom is this conference?
This conference is open to representatives of projects and organisations working on the development bio-based packaging products that are biodegradable/ compostable and/or recyclable. It is open to research organisations, industrial representatives, but also to consumer organisations, recyclers and composting plant representatives.
ATTENDANCE REGISTRATION
Attendance is free of charge (coffee and lunch included). To attend the conference, please complete the following registration form.
In order to fulfil the constraint on the number of attendees, attendants will be confirmed on a first come first served basis.