Creating a Circular Economy
CEFLEX is a collaborative initiative representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging
The CEFLEX ‘Mission Circular’
The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative is a collaboration of over 180 European companies, associations and organisations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging. Together, we work to make all flexible packaging in Europe circular.
CEFLEX’s ‘Mission Circular’ commits to collection of all flexible packaging and over 80% of the recycled materials channelled into valuable new markets and applications to substitute virgin materials
A 5-step roadmap to build a circular economy for flexible packaging has been endorsed by CEFLEX stakeholders, together with a set of actions needed by each part of the value chain to make it happen.
We target an established collection, sorting and reprocessing infrastructure and economy for post-consumer flexible packaging across Europe. It will be based on end-of-life technologies and processes which deliver the best economic, technical and environmental outcome for a circular economy.
CEFLEX News & Events
Can flexible packaging be sorted, recycled and achieve EU targets in Romania? National six-month trial offers a different question
RoFLEX is one of CEFLEX’s leading pilots in an implementation program already active in 15 Member States – catalysing action and analysing the technical, infrastructural and policy conditions needed to operationalise the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). The pilot has become the first full-scale validation of sorting and recycling to meet 2030 and 2035 legislative targets for flexible packaging at national level – informing critical success factors for circular economy implementation across Europe.
Transforming flexible packaging, together… FlexCircular initiative aims to match ambition and insights to infrastructure in the UK
Accelerating progress for the entire value chain increasingly means acting nationally. At CEFLEX do this with a Europe-wide program of collaboration, instigation and catalyst projects.
Unlocking recycled content at scale: from regulatory targets to functioning markets
A conversation with Fiona Durie, CEFLEX Advocacy Consultant