Climate certificate from Initiative ERDE for RKW Agri Michelstadt
Recycling of agricultural films saves CO2
Michelstadt/Germany, March 25, 2021 - In 2020, RKW Agri in Michelstadt, together with the other companies in the ERDE initiative, saved more than 30,000 tons of CO2 by collecting and recycling agricultural films. The company has now received a climate certificate for this. RKW Agri is a co-founder of the Erntekunststoffe Recycling Deutschland (Initiative for recycling of agricultural plastics in Germany) - ERDE - initiative and is committed to environmental and climate protection in the area of agricultural films.
The initiative offers farmers to take back used films and nets and feed them back into the recycling cycle. In this way, together with other manufacturers involved in the initiative, RKW Agri actively contributes to improving the climate balance and protecting our environment.
“It's nice to see that most of these goods flow back into the economic cycle. In the past, for example, silage film, round bale nets and other harvest plastics were partly incinerated in fields, disposed of with residual waste or even in landfills, ”says Stefan Kwiatkista, Manager Business Development Agriculture, RKW Agri Michelstadt.
Recyclates can be used very well with agricultural films in particular. This creates a material cycle that not only reduces waste, but also conserves resources and ultimately reduces additional CO2 emissions.
The collections are currently organized at 531 collection points and almost 1,900 mobile collections across Germany. In the past year, all companies involved in the ERDE initiative returned a total of 26,500 tons of agricultural film to the value cycle, or the equivalent of 30,000 tons of CO2. This corresponds roughly to the amount that around 2.2 million trees bind in one year.It is results like these that show that engagement pays off. RKW takes sustainability seriously and, as a plastics manufacturer, is aware of its special responsibility with regard to climate and environmental protection.
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About the RKW Group
The RKW Group is an independent private company headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of excellent film solutions. RKW is the market leader in the areas of hygiene and agricultural films, films for the beverage industry and packaging for powdery goods. Moreover, the company also supplies films and nonwovens for medical applications, for the chemical and processing industries as well as for the construction sector. The RKW Group's sustainable plastic-based films enable its customers to improve the daily lives of consumers worldwide.
RKW employs approximately 3,000 people at 19 locations worldwide. In line with the company's slogan "When excellence matters", the company, founded in 1957, focuses on excellence in quality and service. Respect and reliability are RKW's core values and form the basis of the company's success.
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