Source: UL Solutions

Demonstrate Your Recycled Plastic's Quality and Safety for Electrical and Electronics Applications

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Learn how recycled plastics are evaluated for their safety, quality and performance properties, helping to ensure ongoing compliance for use in end-use product applications.

In this webinar, the safety and performance considerations of recycled plastics used in products where the material is relied upon for its safety will be reviewed. Learn how recycled plastics are evaluated for their safety, quality and performance properties, helping to ensure ongoing compliance for use in end-use product applications.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the difference between regrinding and recycling plastics
  • Evaluate and recognize recycled plastic concerns
  • Learn how to be transparent about your recycled plastic content and how to demonstrate quality and safety

Agenda:

  • Regrind vs. recycled plastics
  • Plastics performance and quality
  • Demonstrating safety
  • Plastics certification

Presenter 1:

Wendy Stikvoort

Global Product Manager, Recycled Plastics and Circular Economy

Wendy Stikvoort is the global product manager for recycled plastics and circular economy in UL Solutions' engineered materials business, working out of their Arnhem, Netherlands office. Her responsibilities include the development and execution of strategy, goals and initiatives that support the global recycled plastics business for UL Solutions.

Wendy built her experience with recycled plastics working as a staff engineer in the EMEA region. She handled projects for plastics recognition, including properties such as flammability, HWI, HAI, CTI and GW, as well as long-term properties (e.g. aging of materials) for virgin, recycled materials and additive manufacturing materials.

Next to project handling she delivered seminars in relation to the use of plastics in end-use products for electrical and electronics (E&E) applications. Wendy was a lead auditor for UL Solutions' data acceptance program from 2008 to 2017. She has a background in chemical engineering and was previously employed by the Dutch Standardization Institute (NEN).

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