Overview
Lobbying Costs
17,500€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Plastic Energy LTD (PE)
EU Transparency Register
988395011853-48 First registered on 12 Sep 2013
Goals / Remit
Plastic Energy is the world’s leading chemical recycling company with its head quarter in Madrid, Spain and its technology HQ in the Innovation Centre, London and industrial plants in Almeria and Seville, Spain. The newly formed company has a viable and proven solution to the global problem of plastic waste pollution by transforming waste destined for landfill – globally, more than £240 billion worth a year – or the ocean, estimated to be eight million tonnes a year, into hydrocarbon products and back to plastic through chemical recycling. The industrial plants can produce up to 19,000 litres of hydrocarbon products from 20 tonnes of plastic feedstock. Real end of life plastics (ELP) from domestic wastes are recycled rather than treating “industrial plastics”, which are typically of one type and relatively clean. Unlike many companies working on similar solutions, who are either in the laboratory, at pilot plant stage or processing limited quantities of narrowly selected clean post-industrial plastics, Plastic Energy’s UK based team of technology specialists have more than 10 years’ experience developing the unique, patented thermal anaerobic technology (TAC) chemical recycling process. Plastic Energy’s TAC Plants are uniquely controlled using non-contaminated thermal degradation, agitation and carbon chain length selectivity to produce a variety of outputs. Through its practices, Plastic Energy is a champion of the circular economy, rescuing plastic waste from landfill and transforming it through chemical recycling into hydrocarbon oils used to make new virgin-quality plastics. Our aim is to apply our expertise across the world to establish industrial plants producing products relevant to our business partners as well as helping to tackle pollution, increase recycled content in food-grade products, and stimulate local economies.
Fields of interest: Plastic Energy’s mission is to be the world leading, sustainable and profitable producer of feedstock for new plastics from end-of-life plastic. The company has plans to expand further in Europe, the USA, Asia, as well as South America.Main EU files targeted
- Circular Economy Package
- EC 10/2011
- EC 282/2008
- 2008/98/EC Waste Framework directive
- 2004/12/EC Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive
- End of waste legislation
- RED / Renewable Energy Directive
- FQD / Fuel Quality Directive
- AFID / Alternative Fuel Infrastructure DirectiveAddress
Head Office
Mr Carlos Monreal
Plastic Energy LTD
LONDON EC4V 5DY
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The person full time person involved is our head of Policy and Sustainability, Cloe Ragot, and supported by our CEO and Founder, Carlos Monreal
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Carlos Monreal (Director, CEO, Founder)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Carlos Monreal (Director, CEO, Founder)
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Categories
Category
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
Chemical Recycling Europe https://www.chemicalrecyclingeurope.eu/
Cicloplast, www.cicloplast.com
Ecoembes, www.ecoembes.com
fGer, www.foro-ger.org
Cotec,http://cotec.es/Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
17,500€
Other financial info
Plasticenergy began planning the project in 2011. The first plant ordered by Plasticenergy in Spain became operational in August 2014.
A second plant has been built in Seville, Spain.
More plants have been ordered for Tenerife in the Canary Islands, the Netherlands, France, among other European countries. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Plastic Energy supplied the fuel that enabled pilot Jeremy Rowsell to make his historic flight in a light aircraft from Sydney to Melbourne using conventional fuel blended with 10 per cent fuel manufactured from plastic waste. Jeremy's flight and preparation and the role of Plastic Energy in his success received global coverage. The United Nations Environment communications unit interviewed Jeremy for their newsletter and he as able to talk about the nature and importance of Plastic Energy's role in his success. Plastic Energy features in the award-winning film ‘A Plastic Ocean’ as an example of one of the solutions to the global problem of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. Dubbed "the most important film of our time" by Sir David Attenborough the film shows the devastating impact of plastic pollution in the world's oceans. The film has received more than 500 screenings across the world and has been released on Netflix and Amazon. Plastic Energy in December 2018 receive the sustainability film award from TVE and Sky.
In 2018-2019, Plastic Energy extensively appeared in global media and industry news on its leadership position in developing chemical recycling, the various projects it is developing, and the validation of the Plastic2Plastic process announced in Davos 2019 and later certified with the entire value chain.Other activities
2008/98/EU (Waste)
2009/28/EU (Energy)
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 28 Nov 2017 Location Brussels Subject The potential impact of the revised Renewable Energy Directive on chemical plastic recycling Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Miguel Arias Cañete Portfolio Climate Action & Energy Attending - Maria Cristina Lobillo Borrero (Cabinet member)