Ecofuturo Festival is a major event dedicated to eco-technologies and sustainable lifestyles, held every year in Rome. On May 9th Roberta Bongiovanni, coordinator of Esperanto Project and professor at DiSAT Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (Department of Applied Science and Technology), spoke at one of the festival’s panels on the theme ‘Farewell to Plastic’, presenting the Esperanto Doctoral Network and talking about the sustainable evolution of plastic.