CEFLEX - A Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging

Knowing exactly where and how we can use more recycled materials is key to shaping recycling infrastructure and investment ♻ 📈 👉 Delivering quality, quantity and price of recycled content for new and existing end markets is a core component of the circular economy. So what's key? 📦 **Optimal design for recyclability** is a foundation stone and helps accelerate the circular economy in three ways: boosting feasibility, increasing efficiency and improving the quality of recyclate produced ♻ As markets for conventionally recycled plastics become saturated, a shift towards **developing and using more advanced mechanical processes and ultimately chemical recycling capacities** 📊 We need to establish or adapt **sorting facilities to meet specific recycler bale specifications and optimise collection strategies**. CEFLEX data suggests a significant portion of flexible packaging waste, 50% in many countries (and nearly 100% in some), still ends up in the residual waste stream, reflecting a considerable need to improve collection infrastructure and practices. What else is CEFLEX and partners doing to sow the way forward? 🧠 Extensive insights and value chain input is shaping the CEFLEX initiative’s new recycling strategy - showing the required capacities and technologies required in detail. This is currently being shared and refined with CEFLEX stakeholders and partners. Check out our interview with Graham Houlder to discover more. Link in the comments below. #PackagingEurope #Packaging #PPWR #RecycledContent EuRIC - The European Recycling Industries EUROPEN

How do we achieve 10 - 30% recycled content targets for flexible packaging by 2030? Check out some detailed analysis and targeted actions for the value chain to take 👉 Latest #MissionCircular bulletin is up and exploring the practice and economics of increasing recycled content #PackagingEurope #Packaging #RecycledContent #PPWR

What's on your radar for flexible packaging right now? 💭 Things that caught our eye from #CEFLEX stakeholders this week: #MissionCircular is a major challenge - but collaboration and innovation leads to incremental but major steps forward. 👏 Saperatec GmbH's first commercial plant designed for 30,000T of input aluminium containing packaging structures is up and running 🙌 Dow & RKW Group collaborated to launch two new “REVOLOOP™” plastic resin grades made with up to 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content - pushing the prospects for recycled content and its applications ♻ Attero signed a Memorandum of Understanding with chemical manufacturer Sabic - supplying post-consumer plastic waste feedstock for Sabic’s chemical recycling plant in Geleen, the Netherlands Lots more going on... let us know below. Klaus Wohnig Fabrice Digonnet Berry Bellert Dana Mosora

Collaboration + Innovation = circular economy progress. Every part of the value chain debating the actions to take today 💯 👉 After an intense morning mapping the future of flexible packaging with data & insights - participants at our general meeting in Amsterdam 18 June are pushing their common understanding and clarity of the actions to take. Guided by our steering committee, we are debating: 🚦 Progress on key actions ⛔ Challenges & barriers 👩⚖️ What does it mean for delivering PPWR 💬 How can CELFEX best respond and support Want to be part of the discussion? Join stakeholders in-person at our general meetings 3 x a year. Thanks to everyone for their input Karlheinz Hausmann, Andreas Michalsky, Graham Houlder, Dominika Maruszak-Dankbaar, Feliks Bezati, Liz Morrish, Joachim Quoden, Marius Tent Dana Mosora and many more... #MissionCircular #Packaging #CircularEconomy #PPWR

How can Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) plan strategically for PPWR and optimise flexible packaging to meet plastics recycling targets? Today, CEFLEX and PROs are hosting a workshop to explore a wide range of research and analysis from along the supply chain. 🎯 The objective: openly share packaging insights to help make the most of materials entering sorting centers - today and over the next 5-10 years. 📊 Data on flexibles - and rigids - in household waste streams, sorting and recycling testing and end market analysis for recycled polymers are all on the menu for participating PROs to explore and use to optimise in a quest to boost circularity and activate PPWR implementation. Interested in working with #CEFLEX and partners on this? Get in touch... [email protected] #Packaging #PPWR #Recycling @PROsPA, EXPRA - Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance Ursula Denison MUNICIPAL WASTE EUROPE Zero Waste Europe EPRO

How can we put more recycled plastics to better use in a wider range of products...? Adopting and applying more recycled content is key to the circular economy and fundamental to CEFLEX's mission. Today, it also comes with legislative targets to achieve it! 👉 10% recycled content in contact sensitive; and 👉 35% in non-contact sensitive by 2030 Building on 2022 analysis, CEFLEX and stakeholders are bringing a deeper understanding to existing and potential end markets – plus the technical and performance criteria needed to support its adoption. Understand the key dynamics of materials ‘placed on market’, recycled content and the potential applications to use it with this factsheet. It represents just a small snapshot of data and insights CEFLEX stakeholders see as part of our program of work packages and general meetings - but shows our approach to advance recycled materials from flexible and rigid polyolefin packaging supported by robust data and analysis. #RecycledContent #CircularEconomy #PackagingEurope James Marshall Liz Morrish AMI

Sharing data and insights - listening and learning 👉 Challenges and opportunities in feedstock supply and Chemical Recycling... Two crucial fields for the future of packaging and circular materials were highlighted at back to back AMI conferences this week in Brussels. **Feedstocks**: CEFLEX shared results from a multi-country compositional analysis to research the type and amount of flexible packaging and rigid plastic packaging in the post-consumer waste stream 🚮 The research is providing valuable data to understand the collection, sorting and recycling infrastructure needed in each country and helping value chain and EPR collaborate together 💡 It shows the impact of a well-established, consistent and comprehensive collection system for recyclables; opportunities to better sort and recycle 40-60% of 'ready to recycle' mono-materials from the residual waste stream; and for continued progress in sustainable design. Great presentations, including an overview of Green Dot actions from Alexandre Dangis - including their tie up with Plastic Energy - and AMI consultant Elizabeth Carroll amongst others. 👩🔬 ♻ **Chemical recycling** is a key lever for food and contact sensitive packaging - which makes up nearly 50% of flexible packaging. Discussions are in full sway, including a panel today with Dana Mosora, Sander Defruyt and Raphaël Jaumotte on the future place, pace and development of chemical recycling in Europe and beyond. Thanks to Silke Einschuetz, Olivia Poole and team for keeping speed on the development pipeline and context for wide-scale deployment of planned investments in Europe, US and Asia. #MissionCircular #Recycling #PlasticRecycling

CEFLEX EXCLUSIVE: How does flexible packaging perform in eddy current and metal detection sorting? Independent testing of >150 samples showed us how 👉 Improving design and sorting to achieve recycling targets and accelerate the shift to a circular economy. Build your understanding of how the overall EC and MD sorting is affected by: 🤲 layer thickness of aluminium (from vacuum metallisation to thick foil) 🏋♀️ weight share of aluminium in different structures 🔏 metallic pigments as part of the printing on flexible packaging 📑 size and shape of packaging, including its state (crumpled vs. flat) ⚙ machine type and settings, i.e., sensitivity/power, baffle distance and belt speed Available as a resource on the CEFLEX Stakeholder Portal 🖥 AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics HTP Engineering Service Steven De Meester UK Research and Innovation Liz Morrish Dennis Bankmann Haulwen Nicholas European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) #MissionCircular #Packaging #PPWR #flexiblepackaging #plasticrecycling

Stakeholder EXCLUSIVE: In-depth reports on Spain 🇪🇸 & UK 🇬🇧 on how flexible packaging is collected, sorted and recycled >>> Understand the dynamics of key Eruopean markets with a series of reports looking at all the fundamentals of flexible packahing in the country, plus a clear overview of EPR, legislation and end markets... The most recent additions 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 complement available reports profiling France 🇫🇷 and Germany 🇩🇪 Further reports will soon be available for Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Austria. All available on the 'Stakeholder Portal' along with a host of other resources 👉 https://portal.ceflex.eu/ Interested in participating CEFLEX to decipher packaging legislation, understand what it means for your business and implementing PPWR? Drop a mail to [email protected] #MissionCircular #Packaging #FlexiblePackaging Recyda GmbH Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE)

How do we accelerate using more recycled plastics in more products? Its not always as easy as seems... CEFLEX guides you through the untapped opportunities and challenges 👉 📊 ♻ After a major analysis of new and existing opportunities for recycled content in 2022, our end market expert James Marshall and stakeholders have been refreshing analysis across 50 different product categories. 🇪🇺 📈 With European legislation requiring flexible plastic packaging to incorporate **35% recycled content in non-contact sensitive plastic packaging and 10% in contact sensitive applications by 2030** the drivers and desire are in place to make a significant step forward! CEFLEX stakeholders have been discussing data and analysis since late 2023 to build their post-PPWR strategies in detail. You can now read more about the approach and insights ahead of sector-specific factsheets launching later this year 🔄 https://lnkd.in/e5bZzsqn #MissionCircular #Packaging #FlexiblePackaging #PlasticsRecycling CEFLEX is continuing to seek more engagement with organisations and experts from across the value chain to continue developing our end market analysis: >> Reviewing data assumptions >> Aiding understanding of qualities and sources of mechanical PCR used in various applications >> Building more understanding of non-packaging sector-specific recycled content targets not being driven by packaging regulation (i.e., automotive, construction…) Contact James Marshall, [email protected], to participate and exchange on ahead-of-time insights