Home/Sustainability Flexible Packaging and Sustainability Sustainability is one of our long-held core values. Learn about our commitment to sustainable packaging solutions, and how it can benefit both you and your customers. Our Sustainability Story For Scholle IPN, sustainability is a journey, not an end. We cooperate throughout the value chain in multiple markets to provide environmentally-conscious solutions. Our aim is to remain competitive while utilizing internal and external resources to make a positive impact for our employees, our communities, and the Earth. Our total flexible packaging solutions offer significant source reduction compared to rigid containers, resulting in less energy required and less greenhouse gas emissions. Whether your products are intended for a retail, institutional, or industrial application, you’ll see improved yields and shelf life, leading to less food and product waste. With bag-in-drum or IBCs, reusable shipping containers can be incorporated, eliminating the need for single-use containers, which diverts landfill waste. 1.75 Earths Required to meet all of humanity’s raw material needs this year.* Under today’s linear model, the amount of resources extracted from our planet are rising by nearly 2% per year with roughly 82bn tons of raw materials expected to be extracted from the planet in 2020, more than double that required in 1980. And that’s only the stuff that we want. The Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) estimates that OECD countries produce 21bn tons of materials that never enter the economic system, such as harvesting losses, dredged materials, and other by-products. * HSBC – “Waste less, grow more,” September, 2019 Population Growth and Flexible Packaging The world population is predicted to reach 10.9bn people by the year 2100. While our population growth rate is slowing, the amount of new people who need access to resources each year is outpacing the Earth’s ability to support them. With natural and man-made crises looming (access to fresh water and food, fossil fuel depletion, and rising temperatures due to climate change), we must change how we use our available resources to help heal the Earth while sustaining the population. Flexible packaging can directly support the environmentally-conscious production, distribution, and protection of food and beverage products. Specifically, smart flexible packaging solutions can help reduce resource load in critical metrics like: Total Energy Used Total Material Weight Greenhouse Gas Emissions Landfill Space Food Waste It’s clear that business-as-usual is not a sustainable practice. We are at a critical inflection point where significant behavioral changes must occur in nearly every aspect of our lives, including how we package, distribute, and use food, beverage, and non-food products. At the least, we must begin wide-spread source reduction efforts in packaging, including: Downgauging and light-weighting wherever possible. Use mono-material film and fitments to enable recycling. Concentrate liquid products to reduce amount of packaging and energy used to ship water weight. At our best, flexible packaging can empower closed-loop, circular packaging systems with results like: Improved, high-efficient mechanical recycling systems installed at micro-regional sites. Chemical recycling systems that can reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Re-fill style, bulk packaging and dispensing systems for retail outlets like supermarkets. Scholle IPN Environmental Report We're producing regularly-updated environmental, social, and governance reports. Check here regularly for additional downloads and information about our work in creating flexible packaging solutions for a circular economy. DOWNLOAD REPORT A Total Solution for Sustainable Packaging Our products and processes are built upon the responsible stewardship of Earth’s resources. Our business strategy—and resulting solutions—are built around the core idea that we can do more with less. Recyclability Simple, mono-material construction of components to aid recyclability of finished packaging. Lightweight Tenacious approach to removing all waste and unnecessary source material and still do the job right. Product Protection High-barrier film and closed-loop fitment systems that keep products fresh and safe from day one. Equipment Engineer forming, filling, and sealing equipment with high OEE expectations that use the minimum amount of resources during use. Quality Quality and safety are always our first thought. Our products and processes must perform 100% of the time and cannot fail. Legislative Compliance Research and Development considers current and future-state regulatory concerns with novel, timely solutions. Manufacturing Our global footprint and focus on vertical integration ensure we make the right product, in the right places, at the right costs, with the right amount of resources. Communicate and Inform Packaging that provides simple, intuitive use and disposal. Exciting brand and graphical opportunities. Scholle IPN and the Circular Economy The circular economy promotes sustainable development by designing products, systems, and processes that focus on recycling and reuse, ultimately minimizing waste, conserving natural resources, and providing efficiency gains. How We Provide Value Throughout the Circular Economy 1. Raw Material Selection – Aim for circularity by specifying base materials which are post-consumer recycled. 2. Product Development and Production – Design for light footprint, recyclability, and circularity with maximum performance to minimize any waste. 3. Equipment OEE – High-speed, efficient filling and sealing equipment runs on minimal inputs (labor, electric, air, footprint). 4. Logistics – Less weight, more product per pallet and truck. Ambient, aseptic supply chains eliminate reliance on costly cold-chain logistics. 5. Product Waste – Extended shelf life with aseptic solutions. Up to 99% product evacuation with efficient dispensing options. 6. Consumer Use – Extended shelf life of opened products. Simple ergonomics for all ages and abilities. Re-closable fitments reduce the chance of spills and product waste. 7. Recycling – Mono-material components engineered for mechanical or chemical recycling that create value after their initial use. Case Studies in Sustainability Water Packaging Nearly 1.5 million plastic bottles are sold every minute throughout the world. Approximately 70% of these bottles end up in landfills where they take at least 450 years to completely degrade. Scholle IPN has packaged water in bag-in-box all over the world for over 20 years. We’ve produced over 60 million 3-gallon bag-in-box packages, which replace production of 1.3 billion 16.9 oz (500 mL) water bottles. The Environmental Results of Switching to Bag-In-Box Read More Lightweight and Recyclable Pouches Materne’s GoGo squeeZ brand is working to lower their reliance on resources and packaging has been a primary focus. We’ve worked with Materne to develop a recycle-ready film structure for their pouches, and to significantly reduce their closure’s overall plastic weight. The Environmental Results of Recyclable Film and Lightweight Fitments Read More Eliminating Waste in Automotive Lubricant Packaging Shell Lubricants was striving to satisfy their customer’s need for the most sustainable and ergonomic package for motor oil in the industry. Moreover, Shell also needed to respond to service operators’ call for an easier-to-use, faster, and more-economical package by changing their traditional, rigid 1-liter (1-quart) bottles to flexible bag-in-box packaging. The Environmental Results of Bag-In-Box for Automotive Lubricants Read More Pouch Packaging for Concentrated Beverages Coca-Cola’s Freestyle dispensing system was introduced in 2009. With a touchscreen-operated flavor selection interface, consumers can custom-make +100 drink flavor combinations. The key to making this system work was to package super-concentrated flavorings in small pouches separately; then mix the flavors with bulk HFCS from bag-in-box packaging and carbonated water dispensed at the on-site location. The Environmental Results of Concentrating Liquids Weight is Waste Flexible packaging can reduce overall material weight by 93% compared to rigid formats like glass bottles, saving valuable greenhouse gas production. Our Three R's Reduce Reuse Recycle Our Sustainability-Focused Memberships Sustainable Packaging Coalition Our membership in the SPC affirms our commitment to developing packaging solutions that reduce our environmental impact. The SPC is passionate about the creation of packaging that is good for people and the environment - both of which we at Scholle IPN strive for each and every day. Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging As a member of CEFLEX, we are working towards a truly circular economy for flexible packaging used throughout Europe. Their guidelines and resources allow us to ensure our developments are designed to fit easily into recycling streams. Chilean Packaging and Packaging Center In partnership with CENEM, we are part of the APL Group (Clean Production Agreement), which allows packaging companies to carry out comprehensive solid waste management based on the Producer Extended Responsibility Law (REP) and Recycling Promotion. ANZPAC Plastics Pact Our membership in the ANZPAC Plastics Pact affirms our commitment to innovating to remove any unnecessary materials from our packaging as we move towards a truly circular economy. How2Recycle As members of How2Recycle, we strive to engineer packaging that minimizes our impact on the environment, from source reduction to recyclability. .st0{fill:#30B496;} .st1{display:none;} .st2{fill:#FFFFFF;} .st0{fill:#30B496;} .st1{display:none;} .st2{fill:#FFFFFF;} .st3{fill:#FFFFFF;stroke:#FFFFFF;stroke-width:1.3405;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st4{fill:none;stroke:#FFFFFF;stroke-width:1.3405;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st0{fill:#30B496;} .st1{display:none;} .st2{fill:#FFFFFF;} .st3{fill:none;stroke:#FFFFFF;stroke-width:0.572;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st4{fill:#FFFFFF;stroke:#FFFFFF;stroke-width:0.572;stroke-miterlimit:10;} Your total flexible packaging solution from idea to execution. LEARN MORE Packaging for the circular economy LEARN MORE How Can We Help You? 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