UK Plastics Pact Annual Summit 2024
Event details
Date and time:
Venue:
By invitation only
Thursday 11 July 2024
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)
66 Portland Place
London
W1B 1AD
That’s a WRAP on our UK Plastics Pact Annual Summit 2024, and what a day it was!
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all our attendees, speakers and exhibitors for being a part of the day. Without you, the Summit wouldn’t have been as energetic or engaging as it was.
We loved seeing the open conversation and active collaboration that was mentioned continuously throughout the day come to life. We hope you found the day as inspiring and worthwhile as we did.
Please spare a couple of minutes to give us some feedback on the day, we are always looking to improve.
The highlights from the day:
Key Publications
Roadmap to 2025 - Full Report Film and Flexible Roadmap
Slide Deck
Final artist sketch output:
We love Ali's sketch visual output that brings the key themes of the day to life, make sure you zoom in to see the detail and we encourage you to share!
Photos from the day:
Agenda
Arrivals, coffee and networking
Opening address – Sebastian Munden: Chair, WRAP
Critical Pathway to Hitting all Four Targets
Guest Speakers: Paul Davidson - Director, UKRI Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, Thomas Merry - Commercialisation & Innovations Manager at SUEZ and Joe Muscat - Environmental Stewardship and Innovation Senior Director at Haleon.
Outlining the critical steps to meet each target and the challenges and solutions for each. The policy landscape impacts and featuring member case studies, reinforcing urgency and the need for action.
Roadmap to 2025 - full document
X TRILLION - Eleanor Church
Coffee break and networking
Flexible Thinking: Creating Solutions for Circular Films and Flexible Packaging
Led by: Claire Shrewsbury, Director of Insights and Innovation, WRAP
Guest Speaker: Louis Lindernberg, CEFLEX
Roundtables facilitated by Adam Herriott, Senior Specialist, WRAP
Exploring innovative solutions to the challenges posed by films and flexible packaging. CEFLEX will launch us into the latest landscape of films and flexible and outline key challenges. Then it will be over to you on our roundtables to innovate and find solutions in technologies, innovation, infrastructure through sharing key issues, insights and building actionable steps to advance the Plastics Pact impacts.
Lunch and the UKRI Innovation Show
UKRI exhibition stands to showcase the latest breakthroughs and solutions. For members to explore, engage with and network to drive innovation.
A Global Challenge: Sharing Solutions and Insights - Cher Mereweather, Managing Director, Canadian Plastics Pact
Cher is the Managing Director of the Canada Plastics Pact, focused on convening key stakeholders within the plastics value chain to advance a circular economy for plastics in Canada, so we can keep plastics in the economy and out of people, animals and nature.
Collaboration on a global scale to drive change and accelerate new solutions is crucial. This session will explore the success of the global initiatives and key learnings. Bringing global solutions to our members.
Scaling Up Reuse: How Collaborative Action can Accelerate Reuse to the Next Level
Led by: Seb Munden, Chair, WRAP
Guest Speakers: Sam Jones - Director Sustainability and Policy at CCEP, Jolanda de Rooij - Senior Global Sustainability Manager at Unilever and James Bull - Environmental Stewardship and Innovation Senior Director at Tesco.
Providing an in-depth examination of the reuse landscape, incorporating perspectives from policy, innovation, and partnerships. Members will gain valuable insights into the evolving policy environment at Global, European, and UK levels, including the implications of upcoming regulations.
Preparing for the Future
Harriet Lamb, CEO, WRAP in conversation with Emma Bourne, DEFRA + Q&A
We are thrilled to announce that Harriet Lamb, WRAP CEO, will be joined by Emma Bourne giving her insights from the first week of the new government.
Followed by a panel chaired by Catherine David, Director of Behaviour Change & Business Programmes, WRAP with Margaret Bates from DEFRA, Will Blomefield from MARS,
Summary and close
Networking drinks
