Stronger data builds confidence in circular flexible packaging
Channel: CEFLEX A Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging
Date: 2022-10-05

How can flexible packaging be better designed for circular sorting and recycling? A new testing programme is generating a wealth of independent data to accelerate the design of circular flexible packaging, according to reviewer Professor Kim Ragaert, chair of Circular Plastics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

"All the design guidelines today are a condensation of existing expert knowledge and expert judgment. And there’s very rarely any hard data to support them. So, what we want to do is generate data to establish the facts beyond question. And then out of that data, generate updated, more specific and relevant guidelines." says Kim Ragaert