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The various achievements and activities represent important steppingstones towards the project objectives of CIRCULAR FoodPack.
Below you can find a selection of our achievements to date!
The article “Waste Study on Flexible Food and Non-Food Packaging” in Polymers: From Waste to Potential Reuse (2024), authored by our project partners Fraunhofer IVV and SUEZ, analyses polyethylene-rich fractions from European flexible packaging waste.
Our project partner KIT and Polysecure have collaborated to publish the scientific article “Sorting plastics waste for a circular economy: Perspectives for lanthanide luminescent markers” in Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Vol. 205 (2024).
Watch our production video about the production of flexible coffee packs featuring a laminate made of 50% Post Consumer Recycling materials from CIRCULAR FoodPack.
For the scientific publication “Guidelines on the selection and inventory of social life cycle assessment indicators: a case study on flexible plastic packaging in the European circular economy” in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2024), the authors from Research Group STEN (Ghent University) would like to thank the members of the CFP consortium who helped in identifying the most relevant, achieveable, and easy to interpret indicators.
Our project partner AMCOR has successfully integrated 50% post-consumer polyethylene recyclates (PCR PE) from the CIRCULAR FoodPack project into a triplex laminate film on an industrial scale for the first time.
The CIRCULAR FoodPack project welcomed 85 participants in the premises of the Fraunhofer Institute for Packaging and Process Engineering in Freising, Germany for its first Conference on “Circularity for Food Packaging”!
During our first public webinar together with the EU-funded project CIMPA we gave many informative insights in our work and innovative sorting technologies.
Watch our CIRCULAR FoodPack Explainer video and learn all about how our project aims to enable the ciruclar use of plsstic packaging in the food sector.
Watch our sorting video showing successful large-scale Tracer-Based sorting trials conducted by Polysecure.
The article “Understanding the Complexity of Deinking Plastic Waste: An Assessment of the Efficiency of Different Treatments to Remove Ink Resins from Printed Plastic Film” in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 452 (2023), was published by our project partner Ghent University (Laboratory for Circular Process Engineering (LCPE)) with valuable contributions from Siegwerk, another project partner fom industry.
For the first scientific publication, project members, coming from the industrial sector (SUEZ) and scientific sector (Ugent, Fraunhofer IVV), worked together and published “Tracing the origin of VOCs in post-consumer plastic film bales” in Chemosphere, Vol. 324 (2023) as an open access article.
In Deliverable 7.1 we published our results regarding the initial tasks of WP7, which involve defining scenarios, developing process flow schemes, and calculating mass and energy balances for new value chains with the objective to comprehensively assess the sustainability of these value chains using Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).
In this deliverable we published our results on the development and evaluation of an efficient Tracer-Based sorting process for mono PE-based multi-layer flexible food packaging, demonstrating the circular use of packaging through production, sorting and recycling cycles.
In this deliverlable the polymer composition of flexible packaging waste is analysed. The results show that non-food packaging has a higher polyethylene (PE) content than food packaging, with significant differences in PE content between countries.
Flexible plastic packaging waste sorted in Belgium, France and Germany is analysed in Deliverable D2.1. The deliverable details the sampling and characterisation methodology and compares the composition of flexible packaging waste. The samples were provided for further analysis to support the development of Tracer-Based sorting (TBS) for food grade multi-layer composite (MLC) packaging.