Die REMONDIS-Welt der Nachhaltigkeit
REMONDIS' World of Sustainability
De REMONDIS-wereld van de duurzaamheid
The whole notion of sustainability will be a lost cause unless we take action here and now to conserve our planet's natural resources. Future generations and today's developing countries will only be able to enjoy prosperous lives if steps are taken right now to counteract the growing shortages of raw materials. For us – being one of the world's leading recycling, service and water companies – there can be only one goal: to tackle this problem and lead by example. Why not join us on this path?!
Everyone agrees that global warming must be limited to 2°C – or preferably 1.5°C – if we wish to prevent our ecosystem from being irreparably damaged. Large areas of woodland in Germany are dying as the country suffers ever longer periods of drought. Pussyfooting around is not going to stop climate change. Some major action needs to be taken. And not just switching from fossil fuels to renewables but from virgin to recycled raw materials as well. We are showing how this can be done.
The Lippe Plant in Lünen is not only a high tech site, it is also an important project for combatting global warming. The various activities carried out at the site help to cut carbon emissions by 488,000t every single year. For a forest to have the same effect, it would need to contain 37 million trees. Certainly a lovely place to take a walk in but perhaps not an ideal place for creating 1,400 jobs.
People searching for an argument in favour of plastics recycling need look no further than at our seas and oceans. Vast areas of waste are floating around in them and are so big that they can even be seen from space. This problem, however, can only be solved on Earth – with more responsible consumer behaviour and systematic plastics recycling.
Talking the talk but not walking the walk? Not at REMONDIS. It goes without saying that our all-encompassing view of sustainability also includes us being sustainable ourselves. This covers all aspects of our business – from the energy efficiency levels of our head office buildings, all the way through to ensuring that all our locations adhere to our high social standards, no matter where in the world they may be.
Every company tries to make a profit. And things are no different at REMONDIS either. For us, however, money is always a means to a good end – which is why a large part of the profits we make is invested in developing new and innovative recycling processes and technologies. Helping to preserve our planet’s valuable natural resources.
Sustainability is not a state or a condition but an ongoing process. First and foremost, sustainability is team work. Which is why we cooperate closely with experts and research institutes that also feel strongly about conserving our planet’s natural resources and preventing climate change. Such work always leads to new approaches and innovations.
Wherever we see an opportunity to drive forward the notion of sustainability and to fix it even more firmly in the minds of people, then we are there, full of passion and enthusiasm for the cause. This covers a whole range of activities – from educational projects, to acting as advisers, to supporting universities.
Everyone is talking about the scarcity of raw materials and about sustainability. But what exactly is behind it all? We decided to do some research to find out what it’s all about – so that we could put together some pages with the most important background information for you to read.
The famous – or rather infamous – Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the many other images of our oceans clogged up with plastic waste provide perhaps the most compelling arguments that more progress needs to be made in the area of plastics recycling – but arguments can be found elsewhere as well. A quick glance at the amount of waste we produce every day also makes it clear just how big this problem is. Plastic can be found in practically every product we use. Moreover, the combination of materials inside the products are getting more and more complicated and the individual pieces smaller and smaller – making them more difficult to recover but also making the need for recycling even greater.
According to the UBA (German Environment Agency), there were between 100 and 150 million tonnes of waste in our oceans in 2013. 60% of this was plastics.
The recipe for recycling plastics successfully is actually quite simple: the better the different materials are sorted and separated from each other, the better – and more sustainable – the result. REMONDIS operates the highest possible levels of plastics recycling in order to achieve these goals. We have, for example, set up REMINE, a specialist company whose sole focus is on developing sorting processes that are so sophisticated that they are able to retrieve and recycle plastics from products that are, at the moment, impossible to recover. For the most part, the company will be concentrating on products that contain various types of recyclable materials that are in very small amounts or which have been joined together to form so-called composite materials.
REMONDIS' subsidiary REMINE is located in the Recycling Park in Brandenburg where it operates a plastics and metals processing plant that is setting new standards in the recycling sector. Here, plastics are recovered and separated more effectively than is possible at any other facility in Germany. The company is able to achieve these results by deploying a combination of different mechanical/physical processes. These include:
REMONDIS has been working in the field of plastics recycling for over 50 years now. The company realised just how important sustainability is many years ago. The crux of the matter here is not simply to avoid a build-up of waste but also to conserve our planet's valuable natural resources. Several million litres of crude oil are used to produce plastics every single year. We are able to reduce consumption of the primary raw material, oil, by supplying our industrial clients with pellets made from recycled plastic.
Increasing recycling rates by developing more and more innovative processes is just one way of solving our planet's plastics problem. Another method is to adjust consumer behaviour. In many cases, consumers can deliberately avoid using plastic products – and what you don't have, you can't throw away. Simply choosing not to use plastic bags can have a positive impact.
Being one of the world’s leading recycling, service and water businesses with over 30,000 employees, everything we do revolves around sustainability. We ensure that the environment is protected and that natural resources are conserved in over 30 countries across four continents.
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