Lydia Tempel is head of the Department `Recycling and Digitalization´, in the business unit ‘Smart Services & Products ’. She holds an engineering diploma in ‘Waste Management and Contaminated Sites’. Since 2009 she has worked at PTS, contributing and managing various research and consultant projects in the area of recycling.

Her fields of expertise are recovered paper management, circular economy, recyclability and end-of-life strategies for fibre-based products.