A new Quality Recycling Process (QRP) for flexible packaging, from CEFLEX and its stakeholders, shows high-value applications for recycled polymers from a mechanical recycling process is viable.
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CEFLEX shows new market potential for recyclates from flexible packaging
Dana Mosora, workstream lead, said: “We have reached a milestone through the power of value chain collaboration and expertise in waste management of flexible packaging. Our trials have shown good yields and delivered recyclate quality suitable to replace virgin polymer grades in a number of demanding film and flexible packaging applications.”
The CEFLEX stakeholder team set out to deliver commercial quantities of PE and PP film quality recyclates for a range of non-food flexible packaging markets not currently open to household collected post-consumer flexible recyclates. With this milestone reached, the CEFLEX workstream is planning industrial trials to underpin the business case for investment in infrastructure which can leverage the QRP into a mainstream solution.
A new ebooklet explores and profiles the process from several perspectives and gives insights from participants in the dedicated action team, which has rigorously tested its potential.
Monica Battistella, Product Manager and Sustainability Advisor at Taghleef Industries, added: “Many applications are possible if we could just understand that recycled plastic does not need to look perfect, just like recycled paper and cardboard are not – and then we would see the higher value that it has in simply being good for the planet. I believe consumers have already understood this.”
