Advanced Recycling Conference 2025: From Industry Crossroads to Circularity

Date of the event: 19.11.2025,

🗓️ 19.+22.11.
🌎 Cologne

On 19-20 November 2025, the Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) in Cologne, Germany, once more unites industry leaders, technology providers, researchers, innovators, and policy-makers to address urgent recycling challenges in various waste-streams. Alongside core-topics like plastics and polymer recycling, this year’s event places strong emphasis on pollution-intensive sectors like textile and automotive, that pose significant environmental problems due to their complex material streams. While textile recycling rates in the EU remain below 20 %, hindered by difficult fibre blends, automotive plastics und rubbers face regulatory pressure and material complexity under the End-of-Life Vehicle Directive.

While putting a focus on plastics and polymers, the programme provides a comprehensive overview in different focus-sessions:

  • Physical Recycling via Dissolution 
  • Advanced Recycling as a Pillar of Renewable Carbon and its Challenges
  • Thermochemical Recycling
  • Biochemical Recycling 
  • Textile Sorting and Recycling
  • From Py-Oil Quality to Valuable Resources and the Chain of Custody in Advanced Recycling 
  • Recycling Solutions for End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) 
  • Sustainable Polymers 
  • Thermochemical Solutions for the Recovery of Valuable Resources and Energy 

The full conference program is available here: