03 Mar 2022 --- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has awarded The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative funding for a flexible packaging design testing program. The collaboration will co-fund investigations into how flexible packaging can be designed for sorting, recycling and boosting circular economy applications. An extensive testing program will draw on a network of leading laboratories, universities and industry experts, generating data to update and improve the “Designing for a Circular Economy” guidelines (D4ACE) originally issued in 2020.