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MATERIALS / RECYCLING PET planet Insider Vol. 20 No. 04/19 www.petpla.net 23 NO. ONE-WAY PRODUCTION. YES. TOP QUALITY RECYCLING. How can your recycled product meet permanently increasing demands? With the CHT range of high performance process solutions with environmental relief for the wet chemical cleaning. We support you directly on site and ensure your quality controls in our laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment. Thus, your strong position in the growing market is confirmed day by day. More about us at www.cht.com PLASTIC RECYCLING SHOW | April 10 – 11 2019 RAI Amsterdam | hall 7 | booth B23 collection. Clarissa mentioned that Scotland, Malta, Portugal, Turkey, Romania, Slovakia and England are currently actively working on the implementation of Deposit Return Systems. The last presentation of the collection focused session was held by An Vossen from Plarebel and focused on the Belgian PET collec- tion system. According to An, Belgium plans to achieve 90% of PET col- lection with curbside collection and improved sorting. Three presentations focusing on collection and sorting were followed by four presentations about trends in PET trays, textile and ODR recy- cling. Paolo Glerean (Aliplast) gave an insight in Petcore Europe’s PET Ther- moforms Recycling Working Group. Paolo stressed the fact that chemi- cal recycling on the one hand, and regional value chain alliances between packaging producers, recyclers and EPR schemes on the other hand, work synergistically to make PET trays truly circular. Paolo was followed by Karla Magruder from Fabrikology who pre- sented the efforts of the textile industry to make polyester circular. With his second presentation of the day, Gian de Belder presented the work of Petcore Europe’s ODR Working Group in detail. Gian gave a summary of the sustainable sleeve and label workshop that Petcore Europe organised in October 2018. An important highlight of his presentation was the announcement of a 3-year temporary endorsement for perforated sleeves on Household and Personal Care (HPC) PET bottles by the Euro- pean PET Bottle Platform. Following on, Johannes Burghaus, an associate of Gian at Procter & Gamble, shared an update from the PET Aerosol Recy- cling Special Industry Group that Pet- core Europe and FEA are running in collaboration to conclude the session. Fabrizio Di Gregorio from PRE proceeded with a presentation on design for recycling. He presented RecyClass, an online tool that ranks the recyclability of a plastic package, as well as other Design for Recy- cling Guidelines such as protocols by European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) and Petcore Europe PET Thermforms Recycling Working Group. Mr Martin Stephan, deputy CEO at Carbios Trends in chemical or back-to-monomer recycling The last session of this year’s Pet- core Europe Conference focused on chemical recycling which was gener- ally seen as one of the most important long-term solutions to make PET even more circular. Wim Hoenderdaal from Indorama Ventures Europe kicked-off the session with a general overview and stressed the following points: