Driving Towards Circular Economy
- CEFLEX is the collaborative initiative of a European consortium of companies and associations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging.
- The CEFLEX Mission is to further enhance the performance of flexible packaging in the circular economy by designing and advancing better system solutions identified through the collaboration of companies representing the entire value chain.
- The CEFLEX Vision
- By 2020 flexible packaging will have a comprehensive sustainability and circular economy roadmap for flexible packaging, including widely recognised design guidelines and a robust approach to measure, demonstrate and communicate the significant value flexible packaging adds to the circular economy. The roadmap will address:
- resource efficiency
- waste preventions benefits
- sustainably returning recycled flexible packaging materials to supply identified end markets
- elimination of leakage.
- By 2025 there will be an established collection, sorting and reprocessing infrastructure/
economy developed for post-consumer flexible packaging across Europe, based on end of life technologies and processes which deliver the best economic, technical and environmental outcome for a circular economy.
- By 2020 flexible packaging will have a comprehensive sustainability and circular economy roadmap for flexible packaging, including widely recognised design guidelines and a robust approach to measure, demonstrate and communicate the significant value flexible packaging adds to the circular economy. The roadmap will address:
CEFLEX News & Events
Creating a paradigmatic shift – flexible packaging in a circular economy
Incremental innovation in silos not enough, says Dr. Catharina Bening, of the Group for Sustainability and Technology (SusTec) at Swiss university ETH Zurich – working with CEFLEX to increase common understanding and action towards a circular economy for flexible...
Developing a Quality Recycling Process: stakeholder voices – EREMA
In this series of interviews, we speak with CEFLEX stakeholders leading the circular economy transformation. Here, Clemens Kitzberger, Business Development Manager Application Post Consumer at EREMA Group gives insight on elements of a sustainable end market for...
Developing a Quality Recycling Process: stakeholder voices – ATTERO
CEFLEX Sustainable End Markets workstream is planning industrial scale trials delivering higher-value end market applications for flexible packaging. This work is building the business case for investment and delivery of a Quality Recycling Process, able to unlock the...