雷诺丽特走向循环-我们走向循环经济的路径
塑料比任何其他材料都更能影响我们的现代生活。它们质轻，耐用，灵活，用途广泛。但是，世界各地越来越多的塑料制品在短暂使用后被当作“废弃物”处理，这对人类、环境和气候构成了威胁。作为一个领先的高品质塑料薄膜及相关产品的制造商，我们有自己的责任：随着我们对更循环经济的承诺，我们正在帮助保护当前和未来几代人的生活基础及生活质量，你可以确切了解这意味着什么。
与此同时，我们知道，从长远来看，地球有限的资源不足以满足线性经济战略。到2021年，地球“过度使用”的比例将达到178%，这意味着我们将需要1.78个行星来满足我们的资源消耗需求。
这一认识导致了近年来许多领域的经济模式转变，开创了一个循环经济的新时代，以保护地球上人类的生存环境。通过节约和合理地利用资源，循环经济有可能将全球原材料消耗量减少28%，温室气体的排放量减少39%。
因此，这是一项将全球变暖控制在1.5度以内的重要战略，这是约194个国家在2015年巴黎联合国气候协议中承诺的目标。
“雷诺丽特走向循环”倡议
为了节约资源、保护环境，我们已经向循环塑料联盟(CPA)做出承诺，成为更循环的经济。诚然，在实现这一目标的道路上，我们仍然需要克服许多挑战。这一倡议的重点是在产品的整个生命周期实现可持续发展，并尽可能使原材料和能源循环利用。您可以在下面找到我们在“ 雷诺丽特走向循环”倡议下整理的目标和行动的摘要，以便长期实现循环经济。
Design
RENOLIT focuses on product longevity and recyclability from the design stage. Many products are already 100% recyclable. We're expanding our product portfolio to include more recycled materials and will collaborate with partners to enhance expertise in this area. As an innovation leader, we're also developing products with new properties and added value.
Resources
We mainly use materials such as polymers (plastics), esters, additives, color pigments, fillers and printing inks. The recyclable materials generated during production are fed back into the production process wherever this is technically feasible.
Where feasible and permitted by law, we want to replace fossil raw materials with biologically produced raw materials without the use of (fossil) oil and gas.
Production
By further improving processes, we are trying to make even more efficient use of the materials. These recyclables are collected, sorted and fed into internal recycling. Our internal recycling rate of recyclables is around 60 percent (as of 2022). By 2025, we are committed to increasing this rate to 100 percent.
For transport packaging within Europe, too, we will only use plastic products that are either reusable or recyclable by 2025. In addition, 50 percent of the packaging material should consist of recycled or renewable raw materials.
Usage
In around 50 percent of applications, RENOLIT products are known for their durability. We want to increase this share through innovations, because the greatest CO2 savings can be achieved with long-term use. Another aspect that pays off in terms of sustainability is the fact that many of our plastic films and applications extend the service life of other products, thus enabling multiple uses. We will also take multiple use of our own products into account in innovations.
Collection and recycling
Recycling is the second-best option for plastic products, conserving resources and reducing CO2 emissions. We view recycling as part of sustainable production and are gradually integrating it. Our goal is to increase the recycled content in our products through innovation, thus improving our material usage and emissions. In addition to our own production waste, we also process customer waste, which is collected, separated, sorted, and recycled. End-of-life recycling is a challenge we are addressing to return valuable materials to the production cycle.
我们自愿承诺到2025年发展循环经济
作为循环塑料联盟(CPA)的成员，雷诺丽特德国公司向CPA承诺将实现以下目标：
百分之百的可回收物将被内部回收，并被用于新的或现有的产品。
到2025年，16700吨生产中产生的可回收物将被用于内部回收。
10个客户回收的可回收材料将被整合到雷诺丽特材料循环过程中。
100%的可回收或可重复使用的塑料材料将用于包装。
50%的可回收或可再生的原材料将用于我们的包装材料。
我们通往循环经济道路上的挑战和优先事项
与其它转型一样，从线性经济到循环经济的转变是一项高度的复杂的任务。要掌握它，就需要所有为我们工作的人、与我们合作的人、以及我们的客户，摒弃旧的思维模式，以建立新的流程——为了更美好的未来。为了实现我们自己制定的目标，我们确定了以下优先事项:
In order to operate a circular economy in future, we must optimize, reorganize and harmonize our processes worldwide to be able to exploit synergies. This task is our top priority, which is why our Operational Excellence Team focuses just on this.
We recycle residual materials at the point of origin wherever possible.
In addition, we have been operating our own recycling plants at our sites for several years. In comparison to PET bottles, for example, which consist of a single raw material, RENOLIT films are more complex: they consist of several layers, different polymer materials or contain additives that give them special properties, are coated or firmly bonded to their carrier materials. In order to process these recyclable materials for recycling, various technologies are required, which we are researching in various co-operations:
- Extraction technologies to dissolve plasticizers out of the films
- Separation technologies to separate different polymers laminated together
- Solvent-based separation, to dissolve laquers .
However, not all raw materials can yet be recovered in this way: Due to the very long service life many of our products consist of ingredients for which recycling processes on an industrial scale do not yet exist today. Products used for medical purposes must meet the highest legal requirements and may only be recycled to a limited extent. Last but not least, taking back used products is not only a logistical task, but also a challenging one in terms of separation by recyclable groups, which we will tackle together with our customers and partners.
A major task for us is to optimize our high-quality films for recycling later on.
However, we can only achieve the highest possible recycling rate of recyclates by adding new products to our portfolio.
长期目标：使用更多可持续资源
我们产品的高质量要求对原材料的质量提出特定要求。只有通过创新，我们才能成功获得尽可能高质量的二次原材料。如果出于生态原因需要妥协，我们将与我们的客户一起找到解决方案。
我们已经能够显著提高一些产品的回收率。在2020年，我们位于西班牙圣塞洛尼的工厂将约8000吨回收物纳入其产品中，占总物料投入的19.3%。这个比例将会进一步提高。
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- 环球足迹网络，生态足迹报告2010。环球足迹网络已经开发出一种衡量我们对地球资源使用情况的方法。它衡量一个人需要多少土地和水域可以满足生产其消耗的资源并吸收其产生的废物。它涵盖能源、食物、木材和废弃物。生态足迹报告2010
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循环经济、2021年度循环差异报告，第5页
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合国巴黎气候协定》于2015年12月通过，并于2016年11月生效。其中包括以下要点：将全球升温幅度控制在远低于2摄氏度的范围内，并努力将升温幅度控制在1.5摄氏度以内；承诺帮助贫穷国家减少破坏气候的排放并适应气候变化；在应对气候变化时考虑到人权问题；采取措施提高应对气候变化的能力；承诺工业化国家为减少二氧化碳排放设定具体目标；并随着时间的推移增加气候目标. 巴黎气候协定