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CEFLEX launches open consultation on Circular Economy Guidelines
CEFLEX has launched an open consultation to hear from the wider flexible packaging industry and other interested parties
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After input and feedback from hundreds of CEFLEX stakeholders, an open consultation has been launched to hear from the wider flexible packaging industry and other interested parties.
CEFLEX, The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging initiative, has announced it is inviting feedback, between 6 December 2019 – 17 January 2020, to enhance and refine phase one of the Designing for a Circular Economy Guidelines before publication in the first quarter of 2020.
This first edition focuses on the largest proportion of the post-consumer flexible packaging waste stream, polyolefin-based flexible packaging structures.
The guidelines aim to make packaging suitable for collection, sorting and recycling after use – giving clarity to brand owners, retailers, converters and others in the value chain and a clear roadmap for recycling infrastructure.
Interested parties can have their say here.
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