End-of-Life of Plastics

15-16th December, 2023
at IIT,Bombay,
In collaboration with Indian Society of Rheology
&
Columbia University

Two-day focused meeting to discuss various issues regarding the end of life of plastics. This is a hybrid meeting that will be held on campus at IIT Bombay. Speakers will discuss thermomechanical and chemical recycling and micro and nano plastics. We will discuss the current state-of-the-art and deliberate on possible future directions for the community. We propose that this meeting will result in a series of perspective articles that will define potentially interesting research directions.

Talks at the meeting will be by invitation. The format is designed so as to leave ample time for discussions.

Speakers

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Sanat Kumar
Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
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Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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Swaminathan Sivaram
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
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Madan Kumar Lakshmanan
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai
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Michael Shaver
School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester


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Stefan Mecking
Chemical Materials Science, Konstanz University
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Peter Olsen
 Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
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Geoff Coates
Chemistry, Cornell University
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Lynn Walker
Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Minnesota
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Tarak Patra
Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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Shankar Ghosh
Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Panel Discussion

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Sanjay Khajuria

 

Nestle

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Jeevaraj Pillai

 

UFlex Limited

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Suneel Pandey

 

The Energy and Resources Institute

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 Siddharth Singh

 

Center for Science and Environment

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Suhas Dixit

 

APChemi

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Geetanjali Vats 

 

Unilever

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Yogendra Shastri

Moderator

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Schedule

Day 1 (15.12.23)

  • 09:00-09:30 - Registration/Tea

Setting the stage

  • 09:30-10:45 - Sanat Kumar (Columbia University): Plastics Recycling- Path Forward
  • 10:45-12:00 - Guruswamy Kumaraswamy (IIT-Bombay): Plastics: End of Life Issues
  • 12:00-13:00 - Lunch
  • 13:00-14:15 - Swaminathan Sivaram (IISER-Pune): Deconstructing Macromolecules: Understanding the Science Behind Sustainability
  • 14:15- 15:00 - Madan Kumar Lakshmanan (CSIR-CEERI): AI-Driven NIR Spectroscopy for Efficient Plastic Waste Sorting
  • 15:00-15:30 - Tea break
  • 15:30-16:30 - Michael Shaver (Manchester, UK): Sustainability, Plastics and Systems: Recyclate, Credit Cards and One Bin To Rule Them All

Chemical Approaches

  • 16:30-17:30 - Stefan Mecking (Konstanz): Recyclable and Degradable Polyethylene-Like Materials
  • 17:30-18:30 - Peter Olsen (KTH, Sweden: Online, 1300-1400 local time): Green Chemistry, Biomass and the Pursuit of Circular Materials
  • 18:30-19:30 - Geoff Coates (Cornell, USA: Online, 0800-0900 local time): New Methods for the Synthesis of Sustainable Polymers
  • 19:30 - Banquet dinner

Day 2 (16.12.23)

Thermomechanical Approaches

  • 09:00-10:00 - Lynn Walker (Minnesota, USA: Online, 2130-2230 local time): Contribution of shear and shear-dominated flows to catalytic upcycling
  • 10:00-11:00 - Tarak Patra (IIT-Madras): Thermomechanical Recycling of Polymers via Reversible Dynamic Crosslinking
  • 11:00-11:30 - Tea
  • 11:30-12:30 - Shankar Ghosh (TIFR): Decoding tire wear: Power law distribution and possible aerosolization
  • 12:30-13:30 - Lunch

Panel Discussion

  • 14:00-16:30 :Sanjay Khajuria (Nestle)                                                                                                                                                  Jeevaraj Pillai (UFlex Limited)                                                                                                                                          Suneel Pandey (TERI)                                                                                                                                                    Siddharth Singh (Center for Science and Environment)                                                                                                      Suhas Dixit (API)                                                                                                                                                            Geetanjali Vats (Unilever)                                                                                                                                                Moderator (Yogendra Shastri, IIT-Bombay)
  • 16:30-17:00 - Concluding remarks and tea
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