CEFLEX News & Events

An exciting new facility in The Netherlands is providing a cutting-edge test bed for sorting and recycling plastics – and the perfect place to fine tune CEFLEX’s Quality Recycling Process for flexible packaging.

A Quality Recycling Process for flexible packaging from CEFLEX and stakeholders shows product yield and quality for high value applications suitable to replace virgin polymer grades using mechanical recycling.

Two new additions to the CEFLEX team bring expertise and insights to support stakeholder collaboration and ‘Mission Circular’ goals.

CELAB – Toward a Circular Economy for Labels – collaboration of the whole self-adhesive label value chain aims to collect and recycle their used release liner and matrix material.

Facilitating techology is a vital element of delivering the circular economy and one of the ‘5 steps’ in our roadmap. The CEFLEX innovation pipeline process is to scout, engage and support some of the most promising.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) plays a pivotal role in funding, coordinating and facilitating the recycling of consumer flexible and all packaging. CEFLEX and its stakeholders have been working to ensure EPR mechanisms are able to drive cost-effective...

CEFLEX recommends use of recyclable mono-materials for flexible packaging As part of its ‘Issue Alignment’ process, CEFLEX stakeholders are working with Swiss University ETH to collect and assess topics which are essential to realising a circular economy for flexible...

‘Holy Grail 2.0’ technology to better sort post-consumer waste recently took a major step forward towards mass adoption thanks to a AIM brand-led consortium of 85 companies and organisations – including CEFLEX and many of its stakeholders.   “We need to scale and...

Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) recently launched their vision for flexible packaging in a sustainable Europe. The vision reinforces the industry’s commitment to a common position on the circular economy.   The Sustainability Vision is targeted at both the...

A recent blog post from CEFLEX projet coordinator, Graham Houlder argues 'It’s complicated, controversial and surprisingly simple all at the same time' but at the heart of it is three conditions for success... "The good news is that we now understand what the CE4FP...

Feliks Bezati, Global Sustainable Packaging Manager at Mars was nominated as representative of the ‘Brand Owners and Retailers’ segment of the value chain within CEFLEX and will take a seat on the CEFLEX Board and Steering Committee. He takes over from Sokhna Gueye,...

PRESS RELEASE A comprehensive set of guidelines to help the flexible packaging value chain design recyclable consumer packaging solutions and accelerate a circular economy was officially launched today (09.07.20). Produced by the Circular Economy for Flexible...