What can your Agri business do to reduce plastic waste?
12 mars 2020
The Knowledge Transfer Network Tuesday, 17 March 2020 from 08:00 to 11:15 (GMT) Peterborough, United Kingdom
The speakers will focus on the agriculture sector, highlighting the environmental effects and discussing solutions to reduce single use plastics, for example, silage wrap, silage sheets, bale net, bale twine, mulch film, greenhouse film, tunnel film, food packaging and labelling.
Agenda
8:00am: Registration, Breakfast, Networking
8:30am: The Circular Peterborough Initiative – Trevor Gibson, Project Lead
8:45am: “Working sustainably with plastics: innovations and funding opportunities supported by government”, Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) – Veronica Sanchez Romaguera, Knowledge Transfer Manager for Circularity and Smart Functional Materials
9:15am: RECOUP - Stuart Foster, CEO
9:30am: Agricultural Plastics Europe (APE) - Carlo Banchero, UK project manager
9:45am: VIRIDOR - Marcus Du Pree Thomas
10:00am: Simon Fisher, National Farmers Union
10:15am: Environment Agency - Fiona Tovey
10:30am: Understanding the challenges with Agri. plastics - group discussions
