Circular Cities – Innovating to tackle plastic waste

Start/End date
Event type
Conference
Country
Belgium
City
Brussels
Sector
Plastics, Polymers and Rubber
Scope
EU,
Cities,
Municipalities
Key Area
Waste management,
Innovation and investments
Organising Body
ICLEI Europe
Circular Cities - Innovating to tackle plastic waste
The event will be held during this year’s EU Green Week, among a host of other partner events drawing attention to not only environmental legislation in the EU, but also the bloc’s commitment to circular economy objectives in light of a busy 2018-19 legislative calendar.

‘Circular Cities’ will welcome policy makers, civil society, business, cities, academia and a clutch of Horizon 2020 stakeholders around
  • three plenary panel sessions
  • an ‘Innovation Space’
  • and three parallel interactive workshops:
    • new materials and ecodesign for plastics in a circular economy
    • digitalisation for a circular economy
    • measuring the circular economy with a local approach.
The conference will welcome speakers from the cities of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Copenhagen (Denmark), organisations such as Zero Waste Scotland and Veolia, and also policy makers from the European Commission’s DG Environment, the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), the European Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

Check the full programme on the PlastiCircle website