environmental stewardship also plays a part. As individual consumers of resources, and businesses with product demands, we need to demonstrate that we are thinking about our impact on the world. As RPC bpi recycled products is a company that relies on the recycling of others, we need to be particularly committed to the recycling message.
The company achieves this by maximising recycling on site – achieving Zero Waste to Landfill accreditation at three of its four manufacturing sites – and exploring ways to include full lifecycle analysis and carbon metrics on packaging.
In 2018, RPC bpi recycled products was awarded ‘Plastics Recycling Business of the Year’ in the Awards for Excellence in Recycling and Waste Management, for its recycling and overall sustainability performance. This has been delivered through heavy investment in technology, the adoption of circular economy principles, lowering the business’s carbon footprint, and reducing the volume of waste sent to landfill.
RPC bpi recycled products is also a company which engages with a wider audience, supporting and making links with suitable partners to achieve maximum effect. For example, partnering with the Great British Spring Clean – an annual event run by UK-based charity ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ – was an obvious choice, since both companies share the same goals of embracing the environment and preventing waste.
Keep Britain Tidy inspires volunteers to clean up areas around their homes, including beaches and rivers. For this year’s campaign in March, it mobilised over 370,000 volunteers across 13,500 events. Around 600 local authorities, towns and parish councils also participated. RPC bpi recycled products supplied the charity with 250,000 blue branded, 100% recycled refuse sacks for volunteers to use throughout the clean-up.
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This autumn a new recycling initiative with local schools close to the RPC bpi recycled products’ Stroud site has been launched. Named ‘Recycle with Riley’, it involves presenting at school assemblies the importance of the 3R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) and encouraging the children to bring into school domestic plastic film which local authorities are unable to collect and recycle. In return the schools receive a Plaswood bench, made from 100% recycled plastic, to illustrate the circular economy and how plastic can be used again and again and again.
The company has also sponsored the Cardiff stop-over of the world-famous Volvo Ocean Race, using the elite yachting event to highlight the creative and business potential of recycling plastic. The prestigious race arrived in Cardiff for the first time in its 40-year history, with thousands of people visiting the Race Village throughout the two-week celebratory festival which ran alongside the event. RPC bpi recycled products worked with Cardiff Council, recycling all the recovered plastic film generated. The material was taken to its factory in Rhymney, Wales, where it was sorted, washed, and made into plastic pellets ready to be manufactured into second life products.
Lorcan Mekitarian, Sales Director at RPC bpi recycled products, said: “We thought it fitting, and highly relevant, to support such a world-renowned sailing event, to highlight how we can help solve one of the world’s most pressing problems – plastic in our oceans. RPC bpi is at the forefront of efforts to recycle and remanufacture plastic to keep it out of the waste stream.”
To ensure genuine sustainability and longevity of resources, every part of the supply chain needs to rethink, redesign and build a positive future circular economy.
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