Green Packaging 2.0: Why is the Future Taking So Long?
In the occasion of the Week of Circular Economy, ACN joins forces with SustainaLab, offering you an event around Sustainable Packaging
Chem Together #23
Green Packaging 2.0: Why Is the Future Taking So Long?
As Amsterdam advances its ambition to become a fully circular city, the role of packaging has moved to the center of the transition. Reducing material use, designing for reuse, and enabling high-quality recycling are essential to cutting waste streams and closing resource loops.
Sustainable packaging is no longer a distant ambition: it is a scientific, technological, and societal necessity. Yet despite rapid advances in materials chemistry, biopolymers, recycling technologies, and circular design, large-scale transformation remains slower than expected.
This event brings together leading experts from academia, brand owners, startups, and scale-ups to explore the gap between innovation and implementation. Through scientific insight, practical case studies, and critical discussion, we will examine the technical and economic challenges of the transition toward truly sustainable packaging.
As always with ACN, join us for a forward-looking conversation on how chemistry can accelerate the shift from promising solutions to real-world impact.
Keynote speakers
- Poonam Dharman - Lipton Teas and Infusions - Packaging & Artwork Innovation Director
- Ingrid Goumans - Avantium - Director Public Affairs & Sustainability
- Rianne Hagen - Albert Heijn - Packaging Specialist
- Sarvesh Poddar - Sustanix - Co-founder and CEO
- Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter - University of Amsterdam - Professor of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry
The Challenges We’re Putting on the Table
Why Packaging Is a Materials Challenge, Not a Waste Problem?
What Happens When Circular Design Meets Consumer Reality?
Why Is It Hard To Scale Sustainable Materials, Even When The Science Works?
Can Private Labels Work as Circularity Accelerators?
If Paper Is Recyclable, Why Is Plastic Still Indispensable — And How Can We Change That?
Timetable
14:00 Doors open
14:30 Word of Welcome
14:45 Round of 3 Talks
15:30 Short break
15:45 Round of 2 Talks
16:15 Panel Discussion
16:45 Closing Remarks
17:00 Networking Drinks
Event made possible by ChemistryNL and the City of Amsterdam
In the occasion of the Week of Circular Economy, ACN joins forces with SustainaLab, offering you an event around Sustainable Packaging
Chem Together #23
Green Packaging 2.0: Why Is the Future Taking So Long?
As Amsterdam advances its ambition to become a fully circular city, the role of packaging has moved to the center of the transition. Reducing material use, designing for reuse, and enabling high-quality recycling are essential to cutting waste streams and closing resource loops.
Sustainable packaging is no longer a distant ambition: it is a scientific, technological, and societal necessity. Yet despite rapid advances in materials chemistry, biopolymers, recycling technologies, and circular design, large-scale transformation remains slower than expected.
This event brings together leading experts from academia, brand owners, startups, and scale-ups to explore the gap between innovation and implementation. Through scientific insight, practical case studies, and critical discussion, we will examine the technical and economic challenges of the transition toward truly sustainable packaging.
As always with ACN, join us for a forward-looking conversation on how chemistry can accelerate the shift from promising solutions to real-world impact.
Keynote speakers
- Poonam Dharman - Lipton Teas and Infusions - Packaging & Artwork Innovation Director
- Ingrid Goumans - Avantium - Director Public Affairs & Sustainability
- Rianne Hagen - Albert Heijn - Packaging Specialist
- Sarvesh Poddar - Sustanix - Co-founder and CEO
- Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter - University of Amsterdam - Professor of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry
The Challenges We’re Putting on the Table
Why Packaging Is a Materials Challenge, Not a Waste Problem?
What Happens When Circular Design Meets Consumer Reality?
Why Is It Hard To Scale Sustainable Materials, Even When The Science Works?
Can Private Labels Work as Circularity Accelerators?
If Paper Is Recyclable, Why Is Plastic Still Indispensable — And How Can We Change That?
Timetable
14:00 Doors open
14:30 Word of Welcome
14:45 Round of 3 Talks
15:30 Short break
15:45 Round of 2 Talks
16:15 Panel Discussion
16:45 Closing Remarks
17:00 Networking Drinks
Event made possible by ChemistryNL and the City of Amsterdam
Lineup
Poonam Dharman
Ingrid Goumans
Rianne Hagen
Sarvesh Poddar
Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter
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Highlights
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- In person
Location
Science Park 301- Matrix One
Science Park
1012 WX Amsterdam
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