Circular Foodpack Conference

On 23 November 2023, the EU project CIRCULAR FoodPack invites you to its first conference on circularity for food packaging. At the time being, plastic multi-layer composites are often used to pack food in a functional and safe way. However, current recycling technologies do not allow a reprocess of these multi-layer composites into high-quality materials. As such, they are excluded from the sustainable circular economy. For flexible food packaging, recyclability is even more complicated due to the high hygiene and safety standards that the recyclates must meet when reused in contact with food.

This is why CIRCULAR FoodPack develops innovative solutions along the entire recycling value chain to make flexible food packaging circular. At the "Circularity for Food Packaging" conference, the project partners and experts will present the latest findings and developments on the following topics:

• Consequences of the European plastic packaging waste directive/regulation (PPWD)
• Circularity in plastics
• European waste streams in collection and sorting
• Recyclates in food contact applications
• Design for recycling, inks and deinking
• Recycling potential of multi-material flexible packaging

The event will take place at the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising, Germany, and is organised in cooperation with BayFOR.

Martin Schlummer, a staff member at Fraunhofer CCPE, will give a presentation on "Recycling Technologies for Packaging" from 11:45 to 12:05.