Climate protection through circular economy
Our circular economy stands for establishing a new initiative—a resource-conserving circular strategy with selected partners. Valuable materials are to be returned to production in this way.
Our goal is the establishment of a regionally oriented, continuous, closed-loop circular economy in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.
For this purpose, we direct plastic packaging waste - with a focus on bottles, canisters, buckets and cans - after use to a new recycling stream. We produce our own regranulate, thereby saving new material in the production of plastic packaging, which in turn leads to reduced resource consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
The current situation with plastic recycling
Plastic, colloquially also called plastic, is a relatively cheap and versatile raw material with many positive properties and is therefore found everywhere in our daily lives. Packaging made of plastic can do many things that other packaging materials cannot – among other things they are extremely flexible in the design of the packaging form and durable. In addition, plastic packaging is considerably lighter than, e.g., packaging made of paper or glass and thus, in comparison, cause less CO2 emissions during transport. Through recycling, the CO2 footprint of plastic packaging can be further improved.
As far as recycling is concerned, Germany still has several measures ahead regarding the plastic recycling cycle. Because despite high collection and recycling rates, the German plastic recycling system is currently still mostly linear, thus a one-way street from production to disposal. Currently, too large a share of plastic waste is still being used as substitute fuel for energy recovery. This must change. We need a transition from a linear to a circular value chain for materials.
Our Solution
We are firmly committed to making the future of the plastics industry more sustainable. To achieve this, we must minimize the extraction of fossil resources while enabling a genuine circular economy (reuse) of plastics.
The Rixius circular economy, which we launched in early 2022, plays a central role in this. In close collaboration with our partners - including leading companies and public institutions - we have developed an innovative take-back system for plastic containers and closures. These are collected at various sites and brought together at our Mannheim site.
With every step we take, we move closer to our goal: to view plastics not as waste, but as a valuable resource that is used again and again.
The advantages of the Berlin Packaging Rixius circular economy for the environment/community:
✓ Increase in the availability of products made from regranulate (recycled material)
✓ Reduction in the use of virgin material (Virgin)
✓ Short transport routes through regional alignment
✓ Sortierung von Altplastik ermöglicht die effiziente Produktion hochwertiger Rezyklate aus Regranulat für neue Verpackungen
✓ Increase in the recycling rate of plastics
✓ Win-Win situation for all participating partners
Your benefits as a partner in the program
- Provision of C-Boxes for collection at your location branded with your logo
- We guarantee effective recycling of your waste, so you make a valuable contribution to sustainability
- As a partner, you will receive a certificate confirming your recycling efforts and the collected material quantities to strengthen your brand
- Rixius handles the organization of the collection at your location
- By agreement we will include you in image-promoting communications
- Be part of this movement toward a real circular system and support us in expanding our regional collection network!
Here's how it works
In conventional plastics recycling, consumer plastic waste ends up in the yellow bag after use. To date, only a very small portion is directed to a plastic recycling process. The majority is still burned or exported.
1. C-Boxes
We offer selected partners – companies and public institutions – special containers, the so-called C-Boxes. These containers are strategically positioned at predefined collection points in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region.
2. Collection:
Ideally, resealed plastic containers are collected. The collected materials are centralized at the Mannheim site of Berlin Packaging Rixius GmbH.
2. Recycling:
Forwarding the plastics to our partner recycling company. There, high-quality regranulate is produced, from which new plastic packaging is manufactured, thereby creating a closed loop.
Each partner (companies or public institutions) that has been admitted to the program has the opportunity to intelligently dispose of plastic waste by using the C-Boxes, thereby strengthening our program. In this way, we can make a difference together, use existing resources, and reduce CO2 emissions.
Which plastics do we want to recycle?
Our focus is on bottles, cans, buckets, jerrycans, and drums. When it comes to bottles, not on the well-known beverage bottles (PET), which are already being collected through the bottle deposit system, but on bottles that are used predominantly for industrial purposes (cleaning agents, numerous applications in hardware stores, etc). These are PP and PE (HDPE, LDPE).
In the meantime, sorting technology has also significantly improved for the above-mentioned plastics that we have focused on, and similarly consumer awareness has also changed. For example, during production the recyclability of the individual packaging components is already taken into account. The consumer also has a responsibility here: the cleaner the household waste is already separated, the easier the sorting for recycling becomes.
How can recycling contribute to climate protection?
If we steadily increase the share of plastic packaging waste instead of exporting it or incinerating it, significantly fewer CO2 emissions are produced and at the same time valuable raw material is recovered. Thus, by increasing the recycling rate, energy and CO2 emissions can also be saved.
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