Conference Speakers

Tamsin Ettefagh

Chief Sustainability Officer, PureCycle Technologies

BIOGRAPHY

Tamsin Ettefagh is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief Commercial Officer at PureCycle Technologies. She has over 34 years of experience in the areas of recycling and plastics recycling, including implementing a recycling collection program, running the recycling operations for a manufacturing recycling facility, purchasing raw materials, and selling recycled resins for plastic recycling companies. Previous to PureCycle, she worked as a Senior Consultant both in an independent capacity and for major consulting firms in the plastics recycling space, focusing on strategy and implementation to advancements in process, primarily in polyolefins. She has consulted for agencies, banks, potential plastic manufacturers on market conditions, types of supply, and how to evolve and diversify markets for recycled resins.

Ettefagh has been an avid public speaker at conferences, symposiums, and webinars for the past 25 years. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Plastics Industry Association. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Texas A&M University.

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Creating a Circular Economy for PP

The PureCycle process has been developed to recycle products made from polypropylene and provide a purified source of PP, as close to virgin PP as possible (or necessary) for the full range of PP applications. Fiber and nonwoven/fabric applications are among the more demanding applications. PureCycle is not just scaling up an R&D process, it is a demanding learning project to deal with the difficult realities of recycled materials. The consistent aspect of recycled materials is their inconsistency. This affects not only the specific PureCycle recipe but also performance and rapid degradation of processing stages. What consequences does this have and what are the approaches to alleviate those challenges in process design, recycling methodologies and ultimate applications of PureCycle PP products. Can dilution be a solution to some of the challenges? There will be samples of different batches to review and discuss.