Understanding the future of flexible packaging...
CEFLEX - A Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging
Mission Circular
What will the flexible packaging value chain need to look like to meet #PPWR recycled content and recycling rate targets required in European legislation and deliver the circular economy?
In this edition: Modelling material flows and infrastructure required for the circular economy & a selection of recent developments powering its' progress...
Circular ambitions and legislation converge - who does what to achieve them?
Today, our ‘Mission Circular’ and legislative targets are happily converging to accelerate circular materials. In particular, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is giving additional focus and urgency - including three critical pillars shaping a circular economy for flexible packaging: Design for Recycling, Recycling at Scale and Recycled Content.
It is therefore critical to understand key targets of the legislation and assess the conditions, investment and steps needed to achieve them.
To answer these questions, CEFLEX has developed an updated model – called Möbius - designed to bring greater understanding of the material flows and infrastructure required to develop the circular economy for flexible plastics.
Although a continual work in progress, participating organisations in CEFLEX have been key to evolving and sense-checking the modelling work as well as having privileged access to its conclusions and results through our stakeholder-only general meetings, work package sessions and ad-hoc webinars.
It builds on a long-standing collaboration with the University of Gent, assessments of sustainable end markets, our ‘Quality Recycling Process’ project data and our analysis of chemical recycling yields and feedstocks – plus expert input to investigate potential scenarios and explore different choices and their implications.
Ultimately, it aims to help CEFLEX stakeholder businesses and beyond refine their understanding and better identify the actions needed to deliver on EU legislative targets and exceed them in the future.
CEFLEX also uses Möbius to support our collection , sorting and recycling strategy recommendations among other pieces of work. By exploring a number of different combinations of technologies and capacity choices required we can assess and inform industry of the implications of delivering on recycled content and recycling targets in #PPWR legislation.
Bringing this together, it provides a solid basis for engaging the wider value-chain, other material sectors and decision-makers with data-supported insights within feasible established boundaries.
Keen to discover more? Read on or attend our next General Meeting is 22-23 October 2024 in Brussels Belgium and online. Stakeholders check your inboxes or contact info@ceflex.eu to see how you can participate.
Developments shaping the future and delivering the circular economy for flexible packaging
Catching our eye in the world of flexibles
♻ Advanced physical and chemical recycling integration
LyondellBasell (LB) acquired full ownership of APK AG with plans to adopt the solvent-based recycling technology for low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and increasing recycling rates for hard-to-recycle flexible plastic waste. LB has plans to produce and market at least 2 million metric tons of recycled and renewable-based polymers annually by 2030 and connect complementary mechanical and advanced recycling operations.
👁 Smarter sorting - HolyGrail flexibles pilot
The HolyGrail 2.0 Initiative has announced the successful validation of digital watermarking technology in combination with NIR for advanced sorting of flexible packaging.The focus was on sorting flexible packaging to create specific types of output fractions – food-grade PP flexibles and hygiene-grade PE flexibles – from a mixed waste stream.
✅ Chemical recycling capacities coming online
SABIC’s new hydrotreater plant in Geleen, The Netherlands, has been successfully commissioned - a major step towards advanced recycling at commercial scale. The SABIC Europe steam cracker and hydro-treater are twinned with partner Plastic Energy driven pyrolysis plant
📊 Recycled content demand
Amcor reported higher volumes of recycled resin purchases despite a drop in total raw material consumption, according to its 2023 sustainability report. In 2023 Amcor bought about 200,000 metric tons of recycled resin and aluminum, representing nearly 7% of total materials purchased and 8.5% of total resin purchased. Up from 155,000 metric tons, or 4.8% by volume, of recycled materials in 2022.
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