News & Events

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.

On 29 June from 13h30 to 15h30 (CET)

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