Plastic Waste Free World 2023, Cologne, Germany

Plastic Waste Free World Conference and Expo has rapidly become the must-attend international conference and exhibition for any company looking for new technologies, materials, and solutions to help realize their plastic waste targets and source the latest innovations driving the new circular economy. 

The event presents an unbiased opportunity to explore and discuss this highly complex issue with world-leading experts from a number of different industries, and to offer a wide range of new technologies, materials and business practises that will have a positive impact in reducing global plastic pollution, as well as increasing the sustainability of your products. The event attracts more than 4,000+ attendees from the entire supply chain including major manufacturers, brand owners, retailers, materials experts, circular economy experts, government organizations, NGOs, the recycling industry, and the plastics sector to engage in discussions that will help reduce waste plastic in the environment.

In 2023, the event will take place in-person at Koelnmesse 8-9 November, and will be held alongside The Greener Manufacturing Show. As well as 3 targeted conference tracks, Plastic Free World will now include a free-to-attend exhibition featuring more than 250+ companies leading the way forward in producing new materials, packaging solutions, manufacturing technologies, and new ways to use plastic waste as a valuable manufacturing resource for a wide range of industries and applications.

With ever-evolving regulations on single-use plastics and increasing global urgency to find new solutions that will address the global plastic waste challenge - particularly in light of global pandemic perhaps delaying or derailing many sustainability goals and objectives - this is your opportunity to get back on track and connect and exchange the latest innovations to enact meaningful change.

Conference attendees benefit from:

- Access to 3 conference streams and sessions, including 130+ Speakers
- Delegate dining
- Delegate refreshments
- All event proceedings (post-show)
- Complimentary Expo entry - Meet with 250+ suppliers
- Event is co-located with The Greener Manufacturing Show

Speakers: Sian Sutherland, A Plastic Planet, Susanne Marczian, Ford, Kristin Hughes, World Economic Forum, Rolph Payet, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, Martin Ekenbark, H and M Group, Werner Bosmans, European Commission, Kathleen Rademan, Fashion For Good, Thomas Marinelli,Signify, David Harding-Brown, Ecoveritas, Graeme Smith, Mondi, Jo Rowan, PriesstmanGoode, David MacDonald, Cullen, Jurgen Eizinger, Lenzing, Tara Nitz, Covestro, Jürgen Dornheim, Proctor and Gamble, Volker Maier, COTY, Tuomas Mustonen, Paptic, Sophie Tuviahu, UBQ Materials, Joanna Dupont Inglis, European Bioplastic Association, Dr Christian Haessler, Covestro, Douglas Johnson-Poensgen, Circulor, Ruth Farrell, Eastman Chemical, Mark Hoff, SLR, Jack Bigio, UBQ Materials, Gary Bearden, Deloitte, Jennifer Patel, Cargill, Nicola Noponen, Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, Luis Hoffmann, Sulzer, Bettina Siggelkow, Clariant, Paul Bjacek, Accenture, Angela Smits, CRODA