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
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Setting up an ecosystem that encourages greater use of recycled plastics in new and existing end markets has dual benefits. It can help redirect #plasticwaste away from landfills and the environment and allow for lesser dependence on virgin, fossil-based resources. But what's key to enabling such an ecosystem? [Spoiler alert] Advanced recycling is one of the core components! CEFLEX - A Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging sheds more light on this in the post below👇 #circulareconomy #plasticrecycling #chemicalrecycling #AduroCleanTech #TheBetweenChemistry
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
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Reposting this key compositional analysis of post-consumer waste study in case you missed it. A fundamentally important data point, which I hope we can expand.
We conducted a uniquely detailed and comparative compositional analysis of both flexibles and rigids in the waste streams in 4 major European countries... The data gives powerful insights for EPR schemes, infrastructure development, brands and designers 👉 📍 The study builds an understanding of all material available across both residual and recyclable post-consumer waste streams, potential yield per household, per year CEFLEX and its partners Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP), Petcore Europe, Stina Inc. and Styrenics Circular Solutions joined forces to assess both residual and recyclable waste streams for: ✅ types of packaging ✅ materials ✅ polymer types and ✅ product groups and applications The wealth of extensive data has given us much to reflect on - with more analysis still to do! This year, #CEFLEX stakeholders have already seen exclusive insights through a workshop, our general meetings (available on the ceflex.eu portal 🖥 ) - and the CEFLEX team have been working with national associations and EPR schemes to plot a better pathway to circularity for flexibles. We are pleased to slowly be sharing more publicly - including a session at Packaging Europe summit last week and AMI Recycling Flexible Packaging this - ahead of some executive summaries and technical report. Top of the list for flexible packaging to date: 👉 Significant quantities of recyclable, mono-material flexibles are potentially available to be sorted and returned to the economy - a quick win 👉 We still need to work on reducing complex and multi-material structures - using the D4ACE guidelines 👉 Separate collection schemes have a major influence on increasing circularity Intuitively, all things we already know... but the precise, nationally-scaled data to pinpoint exactly what happens to placed on market materials is priceless. We will not be able to achieve circularity without capturing these missed resources and materials #MissionCircular #Packaging #CircularEconomy #EPR #globalplasticstreaty Resource Futures EXPRA - Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance Alliance to End Plastic Waste
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Fantastic to see data shared from CEFLEX - A Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging and partners’ cross-European composition analysis of flexible and rigid plastic packaging found in post-consumer household waste and recycling streams. We provided the waste composition analysis, and using insights from CEFLEX, partners, and stakeholders on the types of packaging they use, we developed a detailed categorisation to help verify the proportions – by percentage weight – of different packaging types. ✅ The data gathered has enormous potential to bring about significant change, providing a necessary baseline of intelligence on the composition of flexible and rigid plastic packaging. Helping to determine and accelerate development of the infrastructure and end market applications – as well as schemes such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) – required to help deliver a circular economy for packaging materials. We look forward to more insights being shared soon. #circulareconomy #plasticpackaging #EPR #plasticstreaty
We conducted a uniquely detailed and comparative compositional analysis of both flexibles and rigids in the waste streams in 4 major European countries... The data gives powerful insights for EPR schemes, infrastructure development, brands and designers 👉 📍 The study builds an understanding of all material available across both residual and recyclable post-consumer waste streams, potential yield per household, per year CEFLEX and its partners Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP), Petcore Europe, Stina Inc. and Styrenics Circular Solutions joined forces to assess both residual and recyclable waste streams for: ✅ types of packaging ✅ materials ✅ polymer types and ✅ product groups and applications The wealth of extensive data has given us much to reflect on - with more analysis still to do! This year, #CEFLEX stakeholders have already seen exclusive insights through a workshop, our general meetings (available on the ceflex.eu portal 🖥 ) - and the CEFLEX team have been working with national associations and EPR schemes to plot a better pathway to circularity for flexibles. We are pleased to slowly be sharing more publicly - including a session at Packaging Europe summit last week and AMI Recycling Flexible Packaging this - ahead of some executive summaries and technical report. Top of the list for flexible packaging to date: 👉 Significant quantities of recyclable, mono-material flexibles are potentially available to be sorted and returned to the economy - a quick win 👉 We still need to work on reducing complex and multi-material structures - using the D4ACE guidelines 👉 Separate collection schemes have a major influence on increasing circularity Intuitively, all things we already know... but the precise, nationally-scaled data to pinpoint exactly what happens to placed on market materials is priceless. We will not be able to achieve circularity without capturing these missed resources and materials #MissionCircular #Packaging #CircularEconomy #EPR #globalplasticstreaty Resource Futures EXPRA - Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance Alliance to End Plastic Waste
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We conducted a uniquely detailed and comparative compositional analysis of both flexibles and rigids in the waste streams in 4 major European countries... The data gives powerful insights for EPR schemes, infrastructure development, brands and designers 👉 📍 The study builds an understanding of all material available across both residual and recyclable post-consumer waste streams, potential yield per household, per year CEFLEX and its partners Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP), Petcore Europe, Stina Inc. and Styrenics Circular Solutions joined forces to assess both residual and recyclable waste streams for: ✅ types of packaging ✅ materials ✅ polymer types and ✅ product groups and applications The wealth of extensive data has given us much to reflect on - with more analysis still to do! This year, #CEFLEX stakeholders have already seen exclusive insights through a workshop, our general meetings (available on the ceflex.eu portal 🖥 ) - and the CEFLEX team have been working with national associations and EPR schemes to plot a better pathway to circularity for flexibles. We are pleased to slowly be sharing more publicly - including a session at Packaging Europe summit last week and AMI Recycling Flexible Packaging this - ahead of some executive summaries and technical report. Top of the list for flexible packaging to date: 👉 Significant quantities of recyclable, mono-material flexibles are potentially available to be sorted and returned to the economy - a quick win 👉 We still need to work on reducing complex and multi-material structures - using the D4ACE guidelines 👉 Separate collection schemes have a major influence on increasing circularity Intuitively, all things we already know... but the precise, nationally-scaled data to pinpoint exactly what happens to placed on market materials is priceless. We will not be able to achieve circularity without capturing these missed resources and materials #MissionCircular #Packaging #CircularEconomy #EPR #globalplasticstreaty Resource Futures EXPRA - Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance Alliance to End Plastic Waste
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Would you like to know by which recycling method your feedstock generates the best output? Especially for waste that is difficult to recycle, it is not easy to find a suitable process. With the CCPE recycling cascade for waste containing plastics, consisting of a combination of three Fraunhofer technologies, high-quality plastic recyclates can be generated with an optimized product yield. #plastics #recycling #weknowhow #technologies https://lnkd.in/ey8HpU35
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Very much supported and therefore happily shared! Chemical and physical recycling are therefore of fundamental importance to the circular economy, sustainable carbon cycles, the defossilization of the chemical industry and carbon management, and have a potentially high volume, but significant investment is needed to exploit it. To achieve this, secure demand must be created, in particular through the policy framework. A few remarks from my side: ♻ Closed-loop recycling is not so often a good approach …. enforce recycling (incl clear context and conditions) and let the market decide for the optimal recycling pathways ♣ Carbon use is very often unavoidable ..... even humans are made of it 😉 ➕ With regards to the complementary approach - check out https://ap.lc/IGrEf CPI - Circular Plastics Initiative, Circular Plastics NL, nova-Institut GmbH #carbonmanagement #plasticrecycling #advancedrecycling #mechanicalrecycling #chemicalrecycling #gasification
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🌍 RECOUP's latest reveals over 120,000 tonnes of plastics at UK recycling centers go unrecycled. That's a staggering £13 million in lost funds (via Interplas Insights) 💡 Matics' real-time data solutions can: 1. Pinpoint recycling inefficiencies. 2. Ensure quality recycling processes. 3. Support sustainable circular economy models. Harnessing technology can turn recycling challenges into opportunities. We can't wait to discuss at the upcoming #InterPlas conference - are you attending? https://hubs.ly/Q022v4z50
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🌍 eco-dec not only sells used solvent recycling solutions. We are committed to research and development for new recycling technologies for various materials. 🇧🇪 Since 2023, eco-dec has been actively involved in a groundbreaking R&D project on recycling used PVC, as part of the CIRC-PVC consortium led by INEOS Inovyn. This collaborative effort is supported by several Belgian companies, universities, and research institutions. 🔧 Our Role: researching and developing solutions for the separation of specific elements in PVC through solvent dissolution. This cutting-edge technology is key to advancing the recycling processes for materials that are not mechanically recyclable today. 📣 Key Partners: Our consortium includes industry leaders such as Entreprises Générales Louis Duchêne, Vanheede Environment Group Logistics, ROVI-TECH S.A., Avient Corporation, Centexbel and the Université de Liège. Together, we aim to achieve full circularity for PVC, contributing to Europe's green transition. 🤝 Collaboration Highlights: ַ› Sustainable Innovation: Developing new technologies for recycling complex PVC waste. ַ› Comprehensive Analysis: Centexbel provides analytical capabilities, while the University of Liège focuses on life cycle analysis and supply chain optimization. ַ› Industrial Impact: INEOS Inovyn’s pilot plants will lead the way in PVC recycling, setting the stage for industrial-scale solutions by 2030. 🔍 Read More: https://lnkd.in/dNpjZZr4 #EcoDec #CIRC_PVC #Sustainability #PVCRecycling #GreenTransition #Innovation
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Legislation is accelerating a transformational time for packaging... with both challenges and opportunities. Urgency and focus on design, recycling and circular materials is welcome says Graham Houlder 👉 Read the blog: https://lnkd.in/dzuNDssc Delivering transformation towards circular materials is CEFLEX’s very reason for existing. We welcome the focus and urgency on higher recycling rates, recycled content and increased quality – and have the insights and collaboration to help make them work. Legislation a key enabler of our ‘Mission Circular’ vision, and the PPWR is a transformational Europe-wide regulation towards these goals. Design for Recycling, Recycling at Scale and Recycled Content are three critical pillars shaping a circular economy for flexible packaging. #MissionCircular #Packaging #PPWR #CircularEconomy
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