Industrial enterprises face numerous challenges in this day and age. As well as having to reduce their carbon footprint and make supply chains more sustainable, they must also find a way of dealing with the increasing shortage of resources.
Eco-friendly industrial packaging that favours recycling and reusing can make a decisive contribution to solving both problems.
At Schütz, this principle is particularly evident in the company’s Green Layer packaging.
The IBC inner bottles, jerry cans and plastic drums in this product range include 30 per cent high-quality, natural-coloured recycled material.
What makes this process special is that Schütz uses the recyclate exclusively for the middle layer of the inner bottle.
New HDPE is used to make the inner and outer layers, meaning that the filling product and the environment only come into direct contact with virgin material.
In terms of quality, there is no difference between Green Layer packaging and other packaging ranges. However, by using recyclate, up to 6.8 kg of CO2 per IBC and up to 3.8 kg per drum is saved. Green Layer products are ideally suited as eco-friendly solutions for numerous applications, especially the transport of hazardous goods. As Schütz takes a holistic approach to sustainability, the recycled pellets are obtained from empty packaging collected as part of its global collection scheme and processed at the company’s own recycling centre.
In this way, customers return used products to a closed material cycle with the help of the Schütz Ticket Service.
Schütz created the necessary infrastructure for this scheme many years ago and can guarantee low CO2 transport thanks to short distances and software-supported route optimisation.