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Activate – communicate – celebrate!

Over the past year, we’ve shared our learnings and vision for the future with over 2,700 people. We will continue participating in a variety of platforms and events, reaching as many people as possible, to collectively create a better future for plastic and our planet. These are just a few of the events we took part in over the last year.

2019

SEPTEMBER
West Yorkshire, UK: We started year two of our Pledge by inviting senior representatives from the UK plastics industry to an open day at our Featherstone site. It was a celebration of several milestones:
  • 50 years at Featherstone
  • 10-year anniversary of our 100% rPET trays in the UK
  • Positive Plastics Pledge year one
  • kp Infinity™ launch

OCTOBER
London, UK: Our Global Sustainability Director, Lubna Edwards, joined an expert panel at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition® to discuss ‘Pioneering Responsible Sourcing and Optimisation in Packaging Materials’, and led a workshop on ‘Recyclability and Recycled Content’.

Warsaw, Poland: Aida Cierco, our Sustainability Manager, together with Marcin Rutkowski, Commercial Director CEE, talked at the Sustainability Confex, and also received the Innovative Packaging Award on kp’s behalf.

NOVEMBER
Brussels, Belgium: Our Food Packaging Innovation Director, Ana Fernandez, joined the Plastics Recyclers Annual Meeting to discuss ‘Designing for Recycling’.

Adelaide, Australia: Technical Sales & Sustainability Manager for Australia and New Zealand, Adam Waldron, spoke about ‘Powering the Change to a Circular Economy’, exploring the realities of developing a circular economy for plastics at scale and how our Pledge is helping us achieve that.

DECEMBER
Barcelona, Spain: Aida also spoke on ‘Where is your food container going?’ at the Food & Packaging Day organised by the Packaging Cluster and FoodService Cluster.

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2020

FEBRUARY
Valencia, Spain: Our Food Packaging Innovation Manager, Samuel Pardo, participated in a panel at Equiplast’s Sustainable Packaging event alongside other sector experts. He discussed important innovations and solutions for the use of recycled plastic.

Brussels, Belgium: Ana Fernandez attended the Petcore Europe Conference 2020, presenting kp Tray2Tray™.

As a result of COVID-19, we were not able to attend events in person, but participated in some online events.
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