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| Start (EST) | End (EST) | Day 1 Live Program - Tuesday November 2, 9 AM - 12:10 PM EST |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Welcome Remarks |
| Dr. Raymond Girard R. Tan (De La Salle University) and Peng Jiang (Sichuan University) | ||
| 9:10 AM | 9:40 AM | Keynote Talk: 637686: Mike Levy, First Environment. ISO TC 323 Circular Economy Standards Development Update - How Will the Plastics Industry be Impacted? |
| 9:40 AM | 9:55 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 9:55 AM | 12:10 PM | Session 1: Recycle and Re-use |
| Session Char: Dr. Raymond Girard R. Tan (De La Salle University) | ||
| 9:55 AM | 10:20 AM | Invited Talk: Katrina Knauer, NREL |
| 10:20 AM | 10:45 AM | Invited Talk: DingDing Yao, Huazhong Agricultural University |
| 10:45 AM | 11:05 AM | 637900: Helen Little, Re:3d. Towards Distributed Recycling with Additive Manufacturing of PET Flake Feedstocks |
| 11:05 AM | 11:30 AM | Invited Talk: Wan-Ting (Grace) Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | 637920: Austin Lehr, Rowan University. Optimization of Solvent-Assisted Plastic Recycling Processes Via Economic and Environmental Metrics |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 PM | 637924: Emilye Garner, University of Kentucky. GC/MS Analysis Results for Fuel Oil Produced from Polyolefin Plastic Waste |
| Start (EST) | End (EST) | Day 2 Live Program - Wednesday November 3, 9 AM - 12:30 PM EST |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Welcome and Last Day's Takeaway |
| Dr. Raymond Girard R. Tan (De La Salle University) and Peng Jiang (Sichuan University) | ||
| 9:10 AM | 9:40 AM | Keynote Talk: Dr. Yee Van Fan and Dr. Jiři Jaromír Klemeš |
| 9:40 AM | 9:55 AM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 9:55 AM | 11:55 AM | Session 2: Technology Challenges and Opportunities |
| Session Char: Peng Jiang (Sichuan University) | ||
| 9:55 AM | 10:20 AM | Invited Talk: Jill Boughton, Waste 2 Worth |
| 10:20 AM | 10:45 AM | Invited Talk: Rick Cochrane, Cyclyx |
| 10:45 AM | 11:10 AM | Invited Talk: 638008: Teni Butler, Eastman. Eastman in the Circular Economy – How Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Enables Commercial Scale Molecular Recycling |
| 11:10 AM | 11:35 AM | Invited Talk: Jeffrey Seay, University of Kentucky |
| 11:35 AM | 11:55 AM | 637694: Philip Tominac, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Hidden Value of Plastic Waste – Building Coordinated Plastics Economies |
| 11:55 AM | 12:10 PM | Hallway Chats and Stretch Break |
| 12:10 PM | 12:30 PM | Poster Session |
| 637889: Dhananjay Dileep, Iowa State University. “Trojan Horse Implants for Implosive Chemical Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate” |
| Start (EST) | End (EST) | Day 3 Live Program - Thursday November 4, 9 AM - 11:20 AM EST |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Welcome and Last Day's Takeaway |
| Dr. Raymond Girard R. Tan (De La Salle University) and Peng Jiang (Sichuan University) | ||
| 9:10 AM | 10:10 AM | Networking Break |
| 10:10 AM | 11:10 AM | Panel: Continuous Innovation & Investment—A necessary pathway towards sustainable plastics |
| Session Description: Can plastics ever be sustainable? What would a circular economy for plastics look like and who might be involved? In this panel discussion learn from three plastics innovators about the challenges and opportunities they face trying to scale up technologies to help us advance end of life options for plastic waste. These Innovators participated in of a US Chamber Foundation project seeking to understand and map out challenges and opportunities to support sustainable plastics research and technology to advance sustainable plastics. Learn from their insights and how the Chamber Foundation hopes to capture their lessons to advance innovation efforts in the US | ||
| Moderator: Kyla Fisher, Circular Economy & Sustainability Fellow, (US Chamber of Commerce Foundation) | ||
| Jennifer LeRoy, Chief Technology Officer (Novoloop) | ||
| Ed Grieser, CEO & Founder (HydroBlox) | ||
| TBD (AMP Robotics) | ||
| 11:10 AM | 11:20 AM | Conclusions and Next Steps |
| Dr. Raymond Girard R. Tan (De La Salle University) and Peng Jiang (Sichuan University) |