{"id":1703,"date":"2024-08-21T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispt.eu\/cpc\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1703"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:49:15","slug":"thor-tummers","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/ispt.eu\/cpc\/speakers\/thor-tummers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thor Tummers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-intro wp-block-paragraph\">External Affairs at Unilever<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thor is representing Unilever externally focusing on Circular Economy and Innovation Policy. Accelerating the transition towards a Circular Economy by scaling by developing &amp; scaling key innovations partnerships &amp; collaboration. In parallel crafting an enabling regulatory framework by engaging with governments, trade &amp; industry associations, policymakers, societal organisations (NGOs) and knowledge institutes on both partnerships as well as policy &amp; legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">External roles include the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), the Acceleration Table for Chemical Recycling of Plastics, the Dutch Food &amp; Drink Federation (FNLI) and the Dutch Sustainable Growth Coalition (DSGC), with key publication Transition Time! A Circular Economy for Plastics. At EU level Thor is active industry-collaboration accelerate the transition towards a Circular Economy, through collaboration with brand-owners, incl. the Flexible Packaging Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His current focus area is scaling innovative recycling technologies to address both recyclability challenges (multi-material flexible plastic packaging) as well as increasing the uptake of sustainable &amp; circular plastic in new high-quality applications (incl. contact sensitive materials).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A personal quote Thor shares with us towards the CPC&#8217;24 is: \u201cWhen we stop blaming and start collaborating, we can create circular value chains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1705,"menu_order":0,"template":"","speaker-group-tag":[29],"speaker-edition-tag":[51],"class_list":["speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thor Tummers - Circular Plastics Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ispt.eu\/cpc\/speakers\/thor-tummers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thor Tummers - Circular Plastics Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"External Affairs at Unilever Thor is representing Unilever externally focusing on Circular Economy and Innovation Policy. 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