CEFLEX News & Events

Where once it was a concept few had heard of within the worlds of business and policy, circular economy is now enshrined in law, and a key part of business strategy. For those who produce, collect and recycle flexible packaging the way forward is not always clearcut.

CEFLEX and partners PCEP, Petcore Europe, Styrenics Circular Solutions and MORE Recycling team up to understand the reality of today’s collected household packaging waste – a vital step forward towards a circular economy for packaging materials.

In a special series of interviews and articles, we explore the required steps to make a circular economy happen. Collection is a fundamental element on which every part of the value chain depends. We spoke to CEFLEX stakeholder and alignment workshop participant on this issue, Nikola Juhasz of Sun Chemical.

Despite the circumstances, 2020 was a landmark year for CEFLEX – and 2021 promises to be the projects’ most critical to date. Project Coordinator Graham Houlder looks at some recent highlights on our journey to a circular economy…

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...