A year ago, the SUP (Single Use Plastics) Act was introduced in our country, which is intended to limit the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. . This is an EU requirement. And as it turns out, very expensive.
The cosmic costs of the “nut” revolution. “We have already spent PLN 30 million”
Tadeusz Mroczkowski, president of Mlekpol, said during the European Economic Congress in Katowice that the company he manages has already spent PLN 30 million on an integrated cap. He also added that Mlekopol had to “modernize machines” and replace some of them completely. – The intention may be right, but no one has effectively explained the assumptions of this regulation – said Mroczkowski, quoted by . He emphasized that many of his company’s clients were irritated by the change. – There were thunderstorms – he said. Mlekpol was one of the first companies in Poland to introduce such a cap.
Polish companies are adapting to EU requirements
Although the regulations introduce the requirement only from July this year, many companies in our country have already taken appropriate adjustment actions. For example, the water producer Żywiec-Zdrój boasted that its bottles are 100 percent are recyclable, including the cap and label. The company emphasizes that until now, if the cap was thrown away separately from the bottle into the plastic bin, it passed through a sieve into the fine fraction in the sorting plant. “As a result, the cap – fully recyclable – was not recovered and the raw material was lost. By permanently attaching it to the bottle, it will have a chance to be recycled along with the entire packaging,” says the manufacturer.
Source: Gazeta
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