CEFLEX News & Events
How can mechanical and chemical recycling work together in practice?
Creating, planning and investing in meaningful synergies starts today… #MissionCircular spoke with Clemens Kitzberger and Klaus Lederer of EREMA Group to help unpack how they work together to boost circularity.
Investment in infrastructure – an urgent requirement
For the circular economy to be truly sustainable, we need it to be demand-driven. Powered by a pull for recycled content in clearly identified existing and significant new end markets for these materials as they re-enter the economy.
Expanding collection of flexibles for recycling
Collecting flexible packaging is key for a circular economy because it sources the feedstock for future sustainable products. Minor adjustments to Europe’s existing waste systems can help send more of these soft plastics where they need to go.
Radically improving flexible packaging design
A core activity of the flexible packaging value chain to transform how packaging is designed is aligning and accelerating progress.
Flexible packaging – the urgent actions needed to deliver circular economy solutions
CEFLEX welcomes Ellen MacArthur Foundation call for urgent innovation and investment in flexible packaging.
Complementary Recycling Technologies for a Circular Economy
How can mechanical and chemical recycling work together in practice to achieve full material circularity? Dana Mosora helps us understand what it means in practice and the road ahead…
Putting recycled plastics to better use in more products key to unlocking major circular gains
Developing new and growing existing markets for recycled materials can go a long way in helping the EU meet its circular economy ambitions. CEFLEX has now identified major opportunities to focus supply and demand for alternatives to virgin materials and boost circularity in flexible packaging.
CEFLEX awarded UK Research and Innovation funding for flexible packaging design testing programme
Major collaboration to co-fund investigations into how flexible packaging can be designed for sorting and recycling and boost circular economy applications
How to (re)design flexible packaging for circular prosperity
Widespread adoption of circular design will increase the share of recyclable flexible packaging in the waste stream, providing more valuable recycled materials to use again, but to achieve this economic ripple affect the industry first needs to rethink how they design and make their products.
Designing, developing and delivering a ‘demand-driven’ circular economy
This year marked a definitive shift from designing a circular economy for flexible packaging, to developing and delivering it. While that transition had already begun, 2021 crystalised key proof points, initiatives and industry wide alignment.
CEFLEX launches plan for next generation recycling plant by 2023
Project and stakeholders are looking to create the first commercial waste processing plant based around its Quality Recycling Process (QRP).
International study of plastic packaging waste to deliver a circular economy reaches Germany
Work to research the type and amount of flexible packaging and rigid plastic packaging in the post-consumer waste stream across Europe reaches Germany thanks to collaboration with Resource Futures, cyclos GmbH, KAVG and PreZero
Closing the loop on difficult to recycle plastics: Introducing a Quality Recycling Process
Discover key insights on how to address and improve mechanical recycling of flexible packaging supported by an emerging business case for infrastructure investment with this webinar
Unpacking Extended Producer Responsibility: what is it all about?
EPR plays a vital role in coordinating and convening elements of a circular economy for packaging. Many of the key challenges ahead fall within their scope: incentivising sustainable design, supporting investment and delivery of collection, sorting and recycling; as well as stimulating essential end markets.
The Circular Economy Path for Flexible Packaging Emerges
Always recycled: navigating flexible packaging’s multiple paths towards the circular economy. The diverse range of flexible packaging products has made it hard to find the best circular path for some of society’s trickiest waste streams, but a clearer way forward is starting to emerge for the industry.
Unpacking Extended Producer Responsibility
Joachim Quoden of EXPRA spoke to Mission Circular about the critical convenor of circularity for (flexible) packaging – EPR schemes