fassaColour® packaging
Our day-to-day commitment also translates into the choice to use recycled packaging: to date, over 60% of fassaColour® system packaging (excluding metal cans) is made from recycled plastic, and over the coming years we have set ourselves the goal of progressively increasing this percentage, with a view to continuous growth and improvement.
Using post-consumer materials helps enhance and promote all those good practices aimed at reducing and recovering waste. In addition, recycled plastic packaging is an important choice because, besides limiting the use of resources, it reduces the CO2 emissions associated with the extraction of raw materials.
What does packaging designed with environmental aspects in mind actually mean?
It means promoting innovation and driving growth and tangible change, both industrially and environmentally. In the fassaColour® world, this virtuous growth has led us to complement our choice of quality raw materials and our constant focus on formulating products with low VOC (volatile organic compound) content with a new development path towards packaging capable of meeting the needs of the circular economy.
The packaging of the fassaColour® system is undergoing a transition from white packaging made of virgin plastic, i.e. produced using only new raw materials, to packaging made of recycled plastic, which is produced by processing plastic waste, used for the production of a new material to be reintroduced into production processes. Tins are characterised by their dark grey/anthracite colour, which may vary slightly in the different supplies, precisely because they come from regenerated raw materials.
Plastic Second Life Packaging
Tins are made from at least 50% recycled material. Lids, on the other hand, are made of virgin plastic: this ensures the best possible sealing and preservation of the product.
“Plastic Second Life is an eco-label for recycled plastic materials and products. Its purpose is to certify materials and products obtained from the recycling of plastic waste while introducing two very important concepts: the quality and traceability of recycled materials. This is to highlight the great potential of plastics in the realisation of the circular economy”. (www.ippr.it)
