News & Events

This summer, we were able to perform our first sorting trials in large scale to proove the feasibility and effectiveness of our Tracer-Based-Sorting approach within CIRCULAR FoodPack.

The French Society of Plastics Engineers (SFIP) and IMT Nord Europe (Institut Mines-Télécom) invite key players in the plastics and composites industry to a new international congress in Douai (France), on 18 and 19 May 2022, which is dedicated to circular economy and eco-responsibility.

With the joining of the Circular Plastics research group from Maastricht University, the project will benefit from their professional expertise in mechanical recycling and product design.

On 16 – 17 February 2022 in Antwerp (Belgium) the European Food & Beverage Plastic Packaging Summit gathers experts from industry and research as well as policy-makers and civil society to explore the best strategies for sustainable packaging including recycling and packaging performance.

The initial characterisation of the European waste stream composition is almost done. The first insights will be published in a report in March, in which the different multi-layer food packaging (MLP) formats currently found in the flexible packaging waste stream are analysed by different means.

Analysis of the multi-layer food packaging in European waste streams

CIRCULAR FoodPack aims to facilitate the circular use of plastic packaging addressing the most sensitive product category: Food.