Decoupling material inputs and growth – Plastics & Packaging

Dr Adam Read

External Affairs Director, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Dr Adam Read has been External Affairs Director at SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK for just over 3 years after a successful career in academia, local government and consultancy. He has been jointly leading SUEZ’s work with the UK Government on the development of the new English Resources & Waste Strategy and associated consultations, is lead author on all of the SUEZ evidence submissions, and has co-hosted 50 plus workshops in the last 24 months working with the value chain to assess the changes needed to meet higher recycling targets and deliver sector decarbonisation. Adam commissioned the invisible pollutants report, and participated in the expert panel workshop, to draw attention on another emission that society must deal with collaboratively.  Adam sits on numerous industry technical working groups is a Fellow of the CIWM, the RSA, IOM3 and the Royal Geographical Society and is the CIWM ‘s incoming President, taking up the reigns in June 2020 when his presidential theme will be skills for a green recovery.

: www.suez.co.uk/en-gb
: adam-read-3337517
: @AdamRead74

Dr Sally Beken

UK Circular Plastics Network Manager, KTN

Sally holds a degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D in Polymer Science. Her early research work resulted in a number of scientific papers on polymer modification and pyrolysis, and a book on rubber blends. She has led on EU funded elastomer projects and worked for a Malaysian RTO developing tyre and antivibration compounds. Business-wise she holds a number of patents in medical device developments and hundreds of millions of metered dose inhaler units are still being used annually with the elastomer formulation she developed as a response to using less polluting greenhouse gasses as aerosols. She has been in tech transfer for over 15 years and has built numerous collaborations and supported companies accessing funding for innovative projects with expert knowledge of polymers.  She has been an Innovation Lead at Innovate UK and monitored a portfolio of over 60 projects and co-wrote scope for plastics related competitions. Since the Blue Planet II episode featuring plastics aired she has been determined to see less plastic waste entering the environment whilst realising the positive benefits of polymers to mitigating climate change and supporting sustainability. She founded and currently heads up the UK Circular Plastics Network and leads on the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging activity at KTN.

: www.ukcpn.co.uk
: sallybeken
: @Dr_Sally_Beken

Mr Guy Bailey

Head of Intermediates & Applications Research, Wood Mackenzie

Guy leads a research team that focuses on the short and long term evolution of key polymer and fibres markets, with a key focus on how increased circularity will drive change over time. Prior to Wood Mackenzie, Guy was Head of Analytics at risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. He has Masters’ degrees from York and Birkbeck College, University of London.

: www.woodmac.com
: guy-bailey-166688b8
: @guybailey1982

Professor Edward Kosior

Managing Director, Nextek Limited

Edward Kosior  ( FSPE, FIOMMM, FRSA) has been active as an innovator in polymer technology for the past 35 years both within universities and recycling enterprises. He is an Honorary Professor at Brunel University UK and Fellow of The Society of Plastics Engineers; The Institute of Materials, Metal and Mining; Royal society of the Arts. He recently received the Prince Philip Medal for “Polymers in the service of man”

His specialisations are advanced recycling plastics technologies including food grade from post consumer plastics such as PET, HDPE and PP, mixed plastics recycling, minimizing carbon footprint of packaging; bioplastics packaging; reducing plastics in the oceans, and waste plastics to fuel technology.

: www.nextek.org
: edward-kosior-31b00910
: @EdKosior