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A global treaty to end plastic pollution and accelerate circularity
CEFLEX is seeking harmonised and mandatory design criteria and sustainably funded systems for collection, sorting and recycling of plastic packaging that include flexibles from the outset....
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Plastic packaging circularity – an opportunity not to be wasted
Working together, legislation and industry can transform the plastics packaging value chain – making significant steps in recyclability and use of recycled content. Separate collection of packaging...
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Multi-country study setting new benchmark for detail and understanding of...
CEFLEX and partners are conducting 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...
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CEFLEX ‘Design Check’ tool to accelerate sustainable design
Online tool gives valuable guidance to designers, packaging technologists, customers and suppliers of flexible packaging – helping them collaborate and innovate throughout the design process....
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A global opportunity? The UN treaty to end plastic pollution and flexible...
The third round of negotiations (INC-3) for the UN’s Global Plastics Treaty take place in Nairobi, Kenya 13-19 November – another important step forward for the global effort to eliminate plastic...
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NIR test programme reveals factors influencing sorting flexible packaging...
A major international collaboration to provide independent, scientific data linked to design, sortability and mechanical recyclability of flexible packaging has published its first report – with a...
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New NIR insights provide rigorous data for flexible packaging design and...
Sandra Beckamp, Managing Director at Institut cyclos-HTP GmbH, discusses how a unique and in-depth Near-Infrared (NIR) study showed how different designs of flexible packaging affect recognition and...
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Achieving a deeper understanding of flexible packaging sorting with NIR – Q&A...
A process engineer at the Dutch National Test Centre for Circular Plastics (NTCP), Dawn Manjaji, shares insights from a recent industrial Near-Infrared (NIR) study conducted for CEFLEX, which shows...
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Producer responsibility… without producers?
EU legislation happening now will be critical in shaping Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for decades to come – and international best practice and progress on EPR could be undermined, with fees...
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Key issues shaping a global treaty to end plastic pollution – a guide to INC4...
Governments, NGOs and businesses at the forefront of pushing for global rules to reduce plastic pollution meet for a decisive 4th round of intergovernmental negotiations 23-29 April in Ottawa, Canada....
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A truly transformational time for packaging
On the journey towards CEFLEX’s ‘Mission Circular’, our collective understanding and actions is normally measured in small increments; but recent months have seen just the opposite. A period crowned...
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Without sustainable end markets, there is no circular economy – James Marshall
A circular economy for flexible packaging requires more end markets for recycled materials along with value chains that prioritise consistent quality of post-consumer recyclate, according to James...
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Knowing exactly where and how we can use more recycled materials is key to...
Graham Houlder, CEFLEX coordinator, explains how delivering quality, quantity and price of recycled content for new and existing end markets is a core component of the circular economy and in shaping...
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Delivering the required transformation: targeted insights to accelerate and...
CEFLEX has developed a unique understanding of flexible packaging material flows, design and secondary markets to help inform policy decisions on PPWR secondary legislation. The Packaging and...
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Modelling the future of flexible packaging – legislative targets and the...
What will the flexible packaging value chain need to look like by 2030 to meet recycled content and recycling rate targets required in European legislation and deliver the circular economy? To answer...
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