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1 2011 Identifying drivers to avoid wasting plastics in landfills Restricting landfill: the catalyst to turn waste into a valuable resource Discussion panel moderated by jounalist Laura Shields French experimentation: high value applications for household mixed plastics packaging Géraud Delorme Director General, Valorplast Eco-efficiency as a key driver in the Green Dot System for plastics in Spain Oscar Martín Director of Materials and Waste Treatment You simply can t let this opportunity go to... waste IdentiPlast Conference Real Fábrica de Tapices, Madrid (Spain) 3-4 October 2011

2 Preliminary Programme - IdentiPlast October, Real Fábrica de Tapices, Madrid (Spain) Day 1: 3 October :00-10:00 Registration and welcome coffee 10:00-10:30 Opening and welcome speech Alejo Vidal Quadras, Vice-President, European Parliament (EU) Jesús Guinea, Managing Director Chemicals, Repsol (ES) Day 1: Political, environmental and economic perspectives on end-of-life plastics Session 1 Panel discussion Moderator: Laura Shields (former BBC journalist) 10:30-11:40 Restricting landfill: the catalyst to turn waste into a valuable resource European Commission: Soledad Blanco, Director, Sustainable Resources Management, Industry & Air, DG Environment (EU) European Parliament: Oreste Rossi, Member of the European Parliament (EU) Municipalities representative: Jean-Pierre Hannequart, President, ACR+ - Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and sustainable Resource management (EU+) Waste Industry representative: Michael Topham, Recycling Director, Biffa (UK) Plastics Industry representative: Paul Augustowski, President and CEO, Basell Orlen Polyolefins - Vice-President PlasticsEurope (PL) Waste-to-Energy representative: Ella Stengler, Managing Director, CEWEP - Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants (EU) 11:40-12:00 Coffee break Session 2 Is the EU legislative framework effectively contributing to avoid wasting plastics in landfills? 12:00-13:15 How the WFD supports the Resource Efficiency 2020 Roadmap Where do we stand in: Spain Poland Europe Landfill Directive Benefits and learning from using landfill tax as a means to divert waste from landfill Teresa Barres Benlloch, Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs (ES) Szymon Tumielewicz, Director of Strategic Planning, Polish Ministry of Environment (PL) N.N., DEFRA - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK) Voluntary Commitment VinylPlus Committment to sustainable development (the new 10-year programme of the PVC Industy chain) 13:15-13:25 Q&A session 13:25-14:30 Lunch break 13:25-15:00 Press conference Helmuth Leitner, General Manager, ECVM - The European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (EU)

3 Day 1: Political, environmental and economic perspectives on end-of-life plastics Session 3 To avoid wasting plastics in landfills: it all starts with collection 14:30-15:45 Co-mingled collection concept Michael Topham, Recycling Director, Biffa (UK) Eco-EPS initiative: ambitious plan to boost the collection and increase the recovery rate of EPS packaging waste French experimentation: high value applications for household mixed plastics packaging Raquel López de la Banda, General Director, Anape (ES) Géraud Delorme, Director General, Valorplast (FR) 15:45-15:55 Q&A session 15:55-16:25 Coffee break Status of the system of collection and sorting of plastic packaging waste in the Netherlands Stuf Kaasenbrood, Director, PlasticsEurope Netherlands (NL) Session 4 Key trends and market drivers to maximise value from collected used plastics 16:25-17:25 Mixed plastics for recycling why and how? Michael Scriba, Managing Director, MTM Plastics (DE) Figures on polyolefins recycling in EU Sylvain Lhôte, EU Affairs Director, Borealis (EU) EUCertplast developing a standardised audit and certification scheme for European plastics recyclers How to shape LCA tools to promote the use of recycled plastics The Vinyloop case 17:25-17:35 Q&A session 17:35-18:00 EPRO award 19:30-24:00 Gala dinner (business attire required) Cesare Spreafico, Managing Director, Corepla (IT) Richard Thommeret, Marketing Manager, SolVin (EU) Day 2: 4 October 2011 Day 2: Scientific, technological and market perspectives on end-of-life plastics Session 5 Innovation and progress in latest sorting technologies 08:00-08:30 Welcome coffee 08:30-09:30 Innovative optical sorting solutions for household and industrial wastes Frédéric Demarez, Vice-President Marketing and Development, Pellenc Selective Technologies (FR) Automated sorting technologies for waste and recycling N.N., Steinert Elektromagnetbau (DE) Innovative process of sorting and treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment to obtain secondary raw materials with high levels of quality 09:30-09:40 Q&A session Pablo Balaguera, Managing Director, Recytel (ES) Session 6 Holistic approach to waste management 09:40-10:55 Integrated Waste management system in Western Africa (IWWA project) Joseba Basterretxea, Researcher, Mechanical Recycling, Gaiker Technology Center (ES) Across the Atlantic: Developments in US recycling and recovery Eco-efficiency as a key driver in the Green Dot System for plastics in Spain Craig Cookson, Director of Sustainability and Recycling, ACC - American Chemistry Council (USA Oscar Martín, Director of Materials and Waste Treatment, Ecoembes (ES) 10:55-11:05 Q&A session 11:05-11:35 Coffee break Overview of plastic waste management in Japan Hisao Ida, Executive Director, PWMI - Plastic Waste Management Institute (JP)

4 Day 2: Scientific, technological and market perspectives on end-of-life plastics Session 7 Second life for used plastics from main applications (closed loop, open loop and recovery routes) 11:35-12:50 Packaging From mixed municipal waste streams to tailor-made recycled material for food contact purposes Food grade recycled PP: can it be achieved? Agriculture Recovery of agricultural plastics waste. Why not a voluntary agreement of the plastics industry in Europe? Manica Ulcnik-Krump, Technical Development, interseroh recycled - resource (DE) Paul Davidson, Special Advisor, WRAP (UK) Bernard Lemoine, Délégué Général, CPA ADIVALOR - Comité des Plastiques en Agriculture (FR) Electrical and Electronic Recycled content in E&E equipment (LCD TV backpanels) N.N., Total Petrochemicals (?) 12:50-13:00 Q&A session 13:00-14:15 Lunch break Session 8 Processes to capture the value in used plastics 14:15-15:45 Agilyx-Plastics to oil conversion Chris Ulum, Chief Executive Officer, Agilyx (USA) Alternative resources use in the Holcim Group: a case for sustainability Valorisation in change to Geocycle in Spain Thomas Guillot, Alternative Resource, Holcim Group Support Ltd (Int.) Francisco Toscano, Geocycle España (ES) Gasification or pyrolisis of polyolefins? Technical and environmental approach 15:45-15:55 Q&A session Beatriz Ferreira, Sustainability Division, Itene (ES) Session 9 15:55-16:15 Wrap up 16:15-16:30 Closing remarks and invitation to Poland

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