Book your virtual seat for the Plastic Reboot – South Africa hosted webinar, focusing on the development of material subjected to rigorous cleaning and safety standards for its reuse in food packaging.
The process, known as food-contact polyolefin recyclate, and its recycling presents a key opportunity to increase circularity. Developing polyolefin recyclate for integration into primary polyolefin food-contact packaging is a potentially high-impact area that could reduce the consumption of virgin plastic.
By drawing on experiences from both developing and developed countries, the webinar is a knowledge exchange on exploring recycled content in primary, secondary and tertiary packaging as a necessary step in the transition to a circular economy. It will also explore increasing the recycling of polyolefins for higher-value applications (such as personal care and cosmetics packaging).
Date: 1 July 2026
Time: 14:00–15:00 SAST Platform: Microsoft Teams
Register: [Click here]
This webinar will appeal to:
- Value-chain actors in the plastic packaging sector, including resin producers, converters, brand owners and recyclers.
- Government departments, regulators and municipalities.
Key speakers:
- Atul Asawa, Pashupati Group (India)
- Scott Trenor, The Association of Plastic Recyclers (USA)
- Takunda Chitaka, GreenCape (South Africa)
The Plastic Reboot – South Africa project aims to reduce the volume of plastic waste generated and leaked into the environment through implementing strategic circular interventions upstream and midstream in the plastic-packaging value chain in the food and beverage sector in South Africa.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is the national focal point of the Plastic Reboot – South Africa project, while WWF South Africa is the national execution agency, in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and GreenCape.
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