Plastic multi-layer composites are often used to package food in a functional and safe way. However, current recycling technologies are unable to reprocess these multi-layer composites into high-quality materials and so they are excluded from the circular economy.
For flexible food packaging, recyclability is even more complicated due to the high hygiene and safety standards that recyclates must meet when reused in contact with food. This is why CIRCULAR FoodPack is developing innovative solutions along the entire recycling value chain to make flexible food packaging circular.
At the Circularity FoodPack conference on 23 November, project partners and experts will present the latest findings and developments.
On 23 November (15:00-16:30 CET), the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) and Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) will host a webinar on “Circular economy: raising climate ambition”.
The first in a series accompanying multilateral meetings over the next 12 months, this webinar will explore how applying the circular economy approach can support the goals of COP28.
The Asia-Europe Environment Forum supports entrepreneurs committed to driving circularity in their businesses and provides an opportunity to discuss the circular transition of SMEs. This year, the Forum will be organising a conference on Empowering innovation in Asia & Europe - SMEs at the heart of circular transition, to take place on 21 and 22 November in Brussels.
CircularInvest and DEFINITE-CCRI are launching the Circular Investment Readiness Network, a Europe-wide community of practice to help circular economy projects overcome development and funding challenges.
The initiative will officially kick off online on 21 November, from 10:00 to 12:00 CET.
This Brussels based event on 21 November 2023 will bring together industry leaders, policymakers, and innovators to explore the path towards a more sustainable and circular textile sector.
The Circular Republic Festival will take place from 15 to 18 November 2023. Join top circular economy visionaries for innovation, networking and inspiration. Showcase initiatives, meet relevant players and be inspired by good practices. Experience keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops and online collaboration. We want to accelerate the circular economy together!
AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, will hold the second edition of PLASREC, its International Seminar on Plastics Recycling, on 15 and 16 November 2023.
For two days, experts will discuss the importance of plastic waste recycling and recovery in a circular economy model that makes it possible to use different kinds of waste as new resources and sustainable raw materials. Also the challenges and opportunities facing the plastics recycling sector will be analysed with the support of around 20 sponsors, media partners and collaborating companies.
In six sessions, 26 speakers will discuss leading topics affecting the sector, such as innovation in collection and sorting, mechanical and chemical recycling technologies, the challenges facing the sector and advanced techniques.
The conference on Green PLM 2023 - We enable the shift to sustainability will feature presentations and discussions on data management and digital solutions for product carbon footprints, secondary material rates and circularity.
There is a fee to take part in this conference, which will be held in Berlin on 9 November 2023. The event will be partly in German and partly in English.
How can the EU meet its growing demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) through domestic recycling?
This hybrid event on 8 November 2023 (10.30–12.00 CET) at Press Club Brussels (Rue Froissart 95, 1040 Brussels) explores the gaps between EU ambition to ramp up CRMs recycling and the current state of play.
