UBC TALKS webinar: Plastic plans for sustainable future

Project: BALTIPLAST
Virtual event

Description

The UBC TALKS webinar on 28 November will focus on one of the most pressing challenges the cities are facing – the plastic pollution. We will discuss how forerunning BSR cities address sustainable plastic management in their strategies and action plans.

Life in plastic could be fantastic in fiction – but how to build fantastic plastic-less cities in reality? And how to incorporate sustainable plastic management into the cities’ strategies and action plans? We will discover different approaches to it during the UBC TALKS webinar on 28 November.

 

Agenda

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    Time
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    09:30 - 11:00 (CET)
    Welcome to the webinar

    09:35 - 09:50

    Introduction to the topic and BALTIPLAST project aims

    Andrea Dobri, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

    09:50 - 10:05

    Västerås’ strategy for the sustainable use of plastics

    Olof Bergold, Västerås municipality

    10:05 - 10:20

    Plastic pollution – curing the disease or the symptom?

    Rasmus Boman, City of Helsinki

    10:20 - 10:35

    Public events and reusable dishes in Tallinn

    Liina Kanarbik, City of Tallinn

    10:35 - 10:50

    Discussion: how to design a strategy and get the decision-makers on board

    10:50 - 11:00

    Takeaway messages and closing words

     

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