CEFLEX News & Events
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
Without sustainable end markets, there is no circular economy – James Marshall
A circular economy for flexible packaging requires more end markets for recycled materials along with value chains that prioritise consistent quality of post-consumer recyclate, according to James Marshall, CEFLEX’s end market expert.
A truly transformational time for packaging
On the journey towards CEFLEX’s ‘Mission Circular’, our collective understanding and actions is normally measured in small increments; but recent months have seen just the opposite.
Key issues shaping a global treaty to end plastic pollution – a guide to INC4 and flexible packaging
Governments, NGOs and businesses at the forefront of pushing for global rules to reduce plastic pollution meet for a decisive 4th round of intergovernmental negotiations 23-29 April in Ottawa, Canada.
Producer responsibility… without producers?
EU legislation happening now will be critical in shaping Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for decades to come – and international best practice and progress on EPR could be undermined, with fees allocated to ‘public revenue’ rather than directly supporting required collection, sorting and recycling infrastructure.
Achieving a deeper understanding of flexible packaging sorting with NIR – Q&A with Dawn Manjaji, NTCP, about CEFLEX’s extensive test programme
A process engineer at the Dutch National Test Centre for Circular Plastics (NTCP), Dawn Manjaji, shares insights from a recent industrial Near-Infrared (NIR) study conducted for CEFLEX, which shows how different designs of flexible packaging affect sortability
New NIR insights provide rigorous data for flexible packaging design and sorting – Sandra Beckamp, Institut cyclos‑HTP GmbH
Sandra Beckamp, Managing Director at Institut cyclos-HTP GmbH, discusses how a unique and in-depth Near-Infrared (NIR) study showed how different designs of flexible packaging affect recognition and sortability.