SOCIAL CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY (CONT) .
In 2018 we were pleased to launch our new paint containers made from 100 percent recycled plastic to the market – making us the first paint manufacturer in the UK to do so.
PCWpacks In 2018, wewere pleased to launch our newpaint containers made from100percent recycled plastic to themarket – making us the first paintmanufacturer in theUK to do so. The plastic 2.5 litre and 5 Litre containers, which are available across our Crown Paints retail range have beenmanufactured by packaging solutions expert Emballator, using 100percent post-consumer waste (PCW) plastic for each container.
The innovativemanufacturing process involves separating Polypropylene plastics such as shampoo bottles, yoghurt pots and plasticwater bottles fromunusable plastic, saving thousands of tonnes of PCWplastic fromending up in landfill. Once sorted, the plastic is then turned into individual pellets which are dyed andmoulded to create our 2.5 and 5 litre paint containers. The dark grey shade enables us to be instantly recognizable to our consumers.
Also in 2018, we continued to work with our waste partners, Social Enterprise, NIMTECH, to ensure that we maximised the reuse and recycling potential of our waste streams.
Along with providing support inmanaging, minimising and recycling our waste, theNIMTECH teamalso play a key part in some of our national recycling initiatives such as our KickOut theCan campaign and our Can Back service. The introduction of new granulatingmachinery adds a new dimension to our capabilities withNIMTECH, enabling our teamto prepare on site all used plastic containers, which are then ready for reprocessing. The plastic is granulated down into small pieces, which are then bagged and sent off site for reconstituting into newplastic products. This on-site facilitymeans the need for bulk transportation is no longer required, therefore removing the large-scale transport andmileage implication for thousands of containers.
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