Katja Slokan

Unirec d.o.o. (Slovenia), Managing director

Katja Slokan

Unirec d.o.o. (Slovenia), Managing director

About the speaker

Katja Slokan is an expert in packaging waste management systems. She participated in establishing legislative framework and setting up packaging waste management systems in Slovenia and Croatia. She manages the company Unirec , second largest packaging waste management scheme in Slovenia.

The project bottle for bottle partnership involved three Slovenian companies. Company Unirec collects PET packaging waste on the market and arranges its recovery. The company Gastro PET recycled raw material is formed into PET preforms and supplies them to Fructal. In Fructal preforms are inflated into new bottles and the bottles are filled. Half of each new bottle is composed of recycled material. Manufacturing of bottles containing 50-percent of recycled material decreases its carbon footprint by 60 per cent, mainly on account of the conservation of natural resources, lower energy consumption and optimization of transport routes.

Specialized companies – such as Unirec – play an important role in a circular economy as an interface between the various stakeholders in the packaging waste management circle. Unirec is constantly investing in development projects and in finding solutions for the circular economy.

Speech

Giving packaging waste a new chance: Plastic Bottle for Plastic Bottle project.

13:00 - 15:00