Innovative Methods Turning Waste to Resource

The session will explore innovative methods that help manage today’s complex plastic streams, followed by insights into compostable food packaging and how it performs in current industrial composting systems.

We will also introduce a new home‑compostable bio‑foam material made from seaweed and conclude with a look at how insect larvae can support the breakdown of packaging waste in a natural and efficient way.

Who Should Attend: Retailers, packaging innovators, sustainability professionals, policymakers, and anyone passionate about reducing waste and building a circular economy.

Let’s rethink packaging together — toward a future that’s durable, sustainable, and impactful. 

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Agenda

09.30

Introduction of Sustainable Business Hub, Retail Relooped and the project Circular Ocean-bound Plastic

Deepshikha Singhania and Jenny Bengtsson, Sustainable Business Hub, Sweden

09:45

From everyday plastic to climate solution: repurposing PET waste to carbon capture materials

Iciar De La Fuente Galiano, BÆTA Carbon (University of Copenhagen), Denmark

10:00

From Shelf to Soil: A Circular Story of Food, Packaging, and Regeneration

Patrik Johansson, Solserv, Sweden

10:15

A Bio-Foam Material for a New Type of Home-Compostable Packaging Products

Austėja Platūkytė, Seaweed Foam, Lithuania

10:30

Insect Larvae as Packaging Degraders: A Case Study of Yellow Mealworm and Greater Wax Moth

Michał Krzyżaniak, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland

10:45

Q&A Session and Final Wrap-Up

The webinar is organized as part of Retail Relooped and Circular Ocean-Bound Plastic, which are co-financed by Interreg South Baltic.

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