News & Events

The CIRCULAR FoodPack partners, who cover the entire value chain of plastic packaging waste recycling, have drafted a Policy Brief. This document summarises the key findings of the project and provides policy makers in the European Union with recommendations for urgent and necessary actions to enable a sustainable circular economy for flexible plastic packaging.

The EU project CIRCULAR FoodPack invites you to attend its Final Event on 28 November 2024 in Brussels, Belgium, where it will present its key findings and results.

Do you want to find out how a sustainable circular economy of flexible plastic packaging can be established and learn about the technologies used to achieve this ambitious goal? Then join the project's Technical Webinar on 27 November 2024, and ask the experts!

Our consortium devoted to the research and development of more sustainable recyclable packaging solutions is drawing first conclusions on the feasibility of using packaging material made of recycled plastics.

Meet our CIRCULAR FoodPack experts at the Innovation Forum 4 Plastics on 19 April 2024 in Brussels!

On 23 November 2023, 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”.

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.

On 23 November 2023, we invite you to our first conference on circularity for food packaging. The event will take place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising, Germany, and is organised in cooperation with BayFOR.

On 29 June, CIRCULAR FoodPack held its first public webinar on “Innovative sorting for plastic packaging waste: Tracer-Based-Sorting and digital watermarking, in conjunction with NIR sorters".

CIRCULAR FoodPack attended the Plastics Recycling World Expo in Essen, Germany, from 14 - 15 June 2023 together with 5 other EU-funded projects from the Circular Plastics Cluster.