The Second Life of Polymers: A Practical Recycling Conference

In 2023, a practical conference on recycling in the polymer industry took place. Participants discussed current problems, questions and tasks of the industry.

Key topics of the conference:

• State support for participants in the "collection–sorting–recycling–production" chain.
• Questions and proposals from business to the relevant ministries.
• Exchange of experience between companies: logistics, import substitution, automation, raw materials.
• Regulation of raw material prices.
• The shortage of recycled polymers (PET, HDPE and others) and ways to overcome it.
• Imported and domestic equipment for recycling polymer waste.
• Methods and technologies for improving the quality of recycled polymers.
• Biodegradable additives.
• Trends and difficulties in producing "green" packaging.

The full interview from the conference is available at the link: https://youtu.be/UO4XjiuEXIM