CEFLEX News & Events
State-run PROs continue to raise concern for circular economy progress
As the EU advances its new Circular Economy Act, concern is mounting over the increasing acceptance of state-run Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) in EU legislation. CEFLEX recently joined a wide coalition of more than 50 associations – coordinated by EUROPEN – in calling on EU policymakers to explicitly prohibit state-run PROs and uphold the core principles of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
New Recycling Technologies to Unlock Circularity in Flexible Packaging – New Report Highlights Enablers of High-Quality Recyclates
The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative has conducted an assessment of five promising recycling technology classses – and how they can work in combination to add value to different feedstocks. The insights are intended to help meet the need for higher-quality recyclates, expand end-market applications, and even improve recycling rates.
Recycling Technologies in Focus: Advancing Circularity with Dissolution Recycling
Interview with Wiebe Schipper, Vice President of European and Asia Pacific Operations, PureCycle
From policy to practice: staying ahead of packaging legislation
As EU rules on packaging and circularity evolve, more companies across the flexible packaging value chain are turning to CEFLEX for clarity, coordination, and real-world solutions.
Recycling Technologies in Focus: Unlocking the Potential of Supercritical CO₂ Purification
Interview with Gilles Dennler, Chief Technical Officer at the French Industrial Technical Center for Plastics and Composites (IPC)
New Recycling Technology Perspectives: Interview with Sebastian Kernbaum, Managing Director, Saperatec
Recycling Technologies in Focus: Scaling Delamination for Circular Flexible Packaging. Interview with Sebastian Kernbaum, Managing Director, Saperatec
Will we hit the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) targets?
Drawing on discussions at CEFLEX’s March 2025 General Meeting, project coordinator Graham Houlder takes a shot at the biggest question around for (flexible) packaging…
Recycling Technologies in Focus: Scaling Innovation for Flexible Plastics
Interview with Andrea Cabanes Gil, CEO of Fych Technologies
Ready for the Mainstream? Dissolution Recycling in Focus
An Interview with Klaus Wohnig, Co-founder of the DROP-IN Dissolution Recycling Initiative
Timely, robust data defining the future of packaging design
Researchers, laboratories and experts across Europe have recently completed a unique testing program of flexible packaging recyclability. Dennis Bankmann, scientific consultant to CEFLEX, tells us how they did it – and what it means for flexible packaging today.
Helping Companies Prepare for PPWR Requirements – CEFLEX and Natureef collaborate to clarify and trigger action in Poland
Starting from 2030, plastic packaging will have to contain a specified percentage of recycled material sourced from post-consumer waste recycling. Currently, collection, sorting, and recycling capacities for plastic packaging in Europe will not be sufficient to meet the projected demand for recycled materials. So, what needs to change?
Recyclability mapped: testing insights equipping an industry for transformation
Stakeholders across the value chain have collaborated to generate robust, independent data and improve flexible packaging design guidance. Q&A with Haulwen Nicholas, CEFLEX design testing program lead.
Flexible packaging innovations recognised at world packaging awards
The World Packaging Organisation (WPO) recently announced the recipients of its prestigious awards program, with CEFLEX stakeholders featuring front and centre among the winning innovations and collaborations.
Modelling the future of flexible packaging – legislative targets and the circular economy
What will the flexible packaging value chain need to look like by 2030 to meet recycled content and recycling rate targets required in European legislation and deliver the circular economy?
Delivering the required transformation: targeted insights to accelerate and implement policy
CEFLEX has developed a unique understanding of flexible packaging material flows, design and secondary markets to help inform policy decisions on PPWR secondary legislation.
Knowing exactly where and how we can use more recycled materials is key to shaping recycling infrastructure and investment
Graham Houlder, CEFLEX coordinator, explains how delivering quality, quantity and price of recycled content for new and existing end markets is a core component of the circular economy and in shaping the initiative’s new recycling strategy