PODCAST: ICIS experts’ key takeaways from the 3rd ICIS Europe Recycled Polymers Conference 2024

LONDON (ICIS)–European senior editor for recycling, Mark Victory, and Helen McGeough, global analyst team lead for plastic recycling at ICIS, joined senior editor for recycling Matt Tudball to discuss their highlights from the recent 3rd ICIS Recycled Polymers Conference that was held in Berlin on 7th November.

Topics covered ranged from ICIS’s own outlook for the recycled markets, panel discussions on collection systems and the ever-popular chemical recycling sector, plus electrical and electronic waste and EU regulation 2022/1616 around food contact, among others.

Some of the key takeaways included:

• Unexpected positivity despite challenging market environment
• The need for and demonstration of strong collaboration through the recycling chain
• Regulatory uncertainty still a core challenge for the recycling market

The issue of regulation was clearly on the mind of many delegates, as the two surveys conducted throughout the course of the conference show.

The first question was: “What do you see as the key enabler to improved collection in Europe?”, followed later in the day by: “What is the missing piece of the puzzle to accelerate chemical recycling growth?”