Logifruit celebrates World Environment Day every 5 June to raise awareness of the importance of creating productive models that seek to address the three areas of sustainable activity: society, the economy and the environment. This day allows us to reflect on the environmental challenges we are facing and the economic models that allow us to construct a more sustainable future.
The main theme of World Environment Day 2023 is solutions to plastic pollution. According to a UN study, less than 10% of the 400 million tonnes of plastic produced every year is recycled. What’s more, much of the plastic waste ends up in our rivers, lakes and seas.
Plastic has a series of characteristics that make it a very versatile material. This versatility lends itself to a circular model entailing the re-use of zero-waste packaging materials, as we are implementing at Logifruit. Our packaging solutions are used to transport products from supplier to distributor, ensuring quality, safety, robustness and sustainability.
Logifruit’s circular economy model is based on its ‘6 Rs System’, which expands on the traditional ‘3 Rs rule’ of the circular economy:
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
to incorporate Logifruit’s own ‘3 Rs’
Rationalise, Re-design, Repair.
With our ‘6 Rs System’, we focus on extending the useful life of our packaging solutions. Our packaging solutions are sanitised after each use to ensure safety and quality. When one of our packages breaks or suffers damage, we first seek to repair it, thus extending its useful life.
Our packaging solutions are modular, which means that damaged parts can be separated from the rest of the package. This means that we only need to transport and recycle one part of the package, rather than the whole unit. Recycling processes also generate emissions through transportation, which requires energy. We at Logifruit seek to rationalise these processes by being more efficient in the way we carry them out.
When the parts that no longer meet these guarantees are converted into “gravel”, our suppliers re-inject it during the production of new packaging solutions. Currently, 100% of the plastic that we recycle is re-used.
Our circular recycling model has been even been endorsed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Through this endorsement, the authority guarantees that the material resulting from this process is 100% safe to be in contact with food. We feel that it represents added value to the sustainability of our packaging solutions. We now form part of a small group of companies at the international level to have received the EFSA’s endorsement.