Solution: Cardboard cup recycling service. Owner: Versoo. Circular Strategy: Recycling.
Description
The recycling service includes Versoo distributing cardboard bins for cardboard cup disposal to companies across France. Once full, Versoo will collect these bins and take them to a nearby recycling facility to be processed. Versoo makes collection efficient by taking into consideration already existing routes to these facilities, which lowers their CO2 impact. The recycling process extracts the paper fibres from the cardboard cups to create moulded fibre products and packaging solutions, which are biodegradable, recyclable and renewable.
Location
Boulevard de la Chanterie, Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou, France.
Scale
Small company, under 10 employees.
Potential circular economy impact
Only 2% of cardboard cups are currently recycled in France as they are composed of a mix of plastic and cardboard making them difficult to recycle. This solution tackles this problem by offering a recycling collection and processing service.
In addition to that, the cups are transformed into other packaging material that can then be used.
What’s involved?
People: Collection team; processing team; sales team.
Resources: Bins; cardboard cups; trucks.
Technology: Machine for the pulping, moulding, and drying.
Implementation: Collection of the coffee cups; pulp the cardboard; mould and dry; transform into new cardboard packaging; deliver to user.