Sixteen partners launch InFACT project to recycle flexible plastics into new packaging. Sixteen international partners led by Danish Technological Institute have launched InFACT, a project to turn household flexible plastic waste such as crisp packets, coffee bags and meat films into new packaging, including food packaging. Less than 15 per cent of this material is currently recycled.
The project runs from 2026 to 2028 with a total budget of EUR 3.2 million, funded by Innovation Fund Denmark through the TRACE programme. Flexible plastics account for nearly half of all plastic packaging on the European market but are often incinerated or downcycled because they combine multiple polymer layers, barrier films, inks and adhesives that resist conventional mechanical recycling. InFACT combines several recycling technologies and is designed to help industry meet the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, which entered into force in February 2025 and tightens recyclability and recycled content requirements by 2030.
The 16 partners span the value chain from collection to retail: Nestlé Danmark, BKI foods, Hilton Foods Denmark, Cloetta, the City of Copenhagen, Interzero, TotalEnergies, Fraunhofer IVV, ARCUS Greencycling Technologies, Re:Lab, Topsoe, Coveris, Dapofa, the University of Southern Denmark, VANA and project lead Danish Technological Institute.
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Sixteen international partners led by Danish Technological Institute have launched InFACT, a project to turn household flexible plastic waste such as crisp packets, coffee bags and meat films into new packaging, including food packaging. Less than 15 per cent of this material is currently recycled.