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New Recycling Technologies to Unlock Circularity in Flexible Packaging – New Report Highlights Enablers of High-Quality Recyclates
The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative has conducted an assessment of five promising recycling technology classes – and how they can work in combination to add value to different feedstocks. The insights are intended to help meet the need for higher-quality recyclates, expand end-market applications, and even improve recycling rates.
“To deliver our ‘Mission Circular’ vision and ambitious targets of the PPWR – including a 55% recycling rate for flexible packaging by 2035 – we must continue to innovate, supporting technologies that can significantly upgrade material quality. This enables more demanding end-market applications for recycled content, and increases recycling rates by addressing complex waste streams that conventional approaches cannot yet process effectively.” Dana Mosora, Senior Consultant at CEFLEX.
Project Coordinator Graham Houlder observed, “Evolving and new technologies are not replacements for improving packaging design, mechanical or chemical recycling, but nevertheless essential additions to the existing recycling toolbox. The recycling technologies – and how they can work together – identified in our latest report highlights some of the key benefits and steps needed to develop and deploy them at commercial scale in the next five years.”