Coveris anticipates its system will repurpose more than 1000 tonnes of additional waste per week for regeneration or recycling
Coveris has launched a recovery system, Recoveris, which enables the delamination and separation of label stock from silicone backing paper for reprocessing.
The company has spent over two years developing a high-speed recovery system which will manage customer and set-up waste more sustainably. Coveris anticipates that this will now enable it to repurpose more than 1000 tonnes of additional waste per week for regeneration or recycling.
Recoveris will address the disposal of redundant customer label waste collected mainly as a result of seasonal forecasting challenges and general spoilage within the supply-chain, including set-up waste. As composite laminate constructs, these finished labels were previously unable to be processed for regeneration or recycling as they consisted of both mixed backing-paper and label material waste.
The company’s facilities, which have relocated to a larger premises in Boston, recovers around 10,000 tonnes of customer and production waste a year, the equivalent in weight to around 5,500 cars in the UK. Operating a zero-landfill waste initiative throughout its paper division, Coveris’ environmental facility recycles its own production and redundant manufacturing waste as well as other paper and plastic used throughout the supply-chain, including tertiary packaging.
Tim Lennon, Coveris’ environmental services manager said, ‘The launch of Recoveris marks a new step in our ability to recycle more product waste more sustainably than before and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the environment. We plan to continue investing in our recycling facility in 2018 to develop new processes and solutions for dealing with waste, whilst also working more closely with customers to look at ways in which we can collaborate to improve recycling across the entire supply-chain and in new product areas.’
