Thursday, October 31, 2013

Brazil: cartons are used to manufacture tiles

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And if the aseptic packaging of Tetra Pak ' s card were used to fabricate tiles? At the outset, common sense would say that this process will be complicated, but nothing is impossible in the world of innovation: since 2000, in the Brazilian market, which it is possible to find tiles made of packaging, explains the Protects What's good.

According to the portal, Tetra Pak supports the marketing of tiles produced with plastic and aluminum in their cartons. "Manufacturers of tiles, in conjunction with Brazilian universities, cooperate in evaluating the material and introduction of major improvements in the final product," explains the site.

Currently, about 15 Brazilian tiles manufacturers are responsible for the annual production of a million tiles made from cartons for liquid foods. Used packaging, of course.

Tetra Pak has a global objective, until 2002, reaching 40% recycling rate of their packaging, post-consumer phase. This would mean tripling the amount of recycled packaging between 2010 and 2020, reaching about 100 billion packaging recycled in the year 2020.

Projects such as this, who value the residues, are a strong help to pursue this objective. Learn more about the strategy of recycling of Tetra Pak packings in Protects What's good.  And see also, on this link, the techniques used in this process.

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