CEFLEX News & Events

EPR is vital to making flexible packaging circular, sustainable and economically viable. Panel discussion from the Sustainable Packaging Summit brings the issues to life

Input relevant to the ongoing review of the Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) and definition of ‘recyclability’

All recycling technologies are required to ensure material is retained in the economy to be used by end markets and applications says new position statement from CEFLEX.

Agreed common position on collecting flexible packaging waste in a circular economy outlines essential elements to capture resources.

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.

Collection of flexible packaging waste is central to achieving a circular economy. It is the first of CEFLEX’s 5-Step roadmap and subject of a value-chain consensus position paper showing the way ahead.

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.