The SODALITAS SOCIAL AWARD established in 2003 to reward the best practices of Corporate Sustainability, is recognized as one of the initiatives in recent years which has contributed greatly to propagate the culture of corporate sustainability and its integration into business strategies.
Thanks to the results achieved and for having been able to jointly meet the expectations of Growth, Sustainability, Innovation and Inclusion, the Lucart (http://www.lucartgroup.com) spa Fiberpack® project has won the special award “Best in Class”, as part of the 14th edition of the “Sodalitas Social Award “.
Almost 2 billion (considered on 1Lt cartons) retrieved beverage cartons, approximately 900,000 (cfr. United Nations Environment Programme Report 2011: Towards A Green Ecnomy) trees saved, which would have been necessary for the production of the equivalent amount of virgin fibre paper, over 52,000 (accordingly to ELCD) tons of CO avoided, thanks to the would be landfill waste of beverage cartons. These are the environmental benefits achieved in three years from 2013-2015 from the Lucart Group’s Fiberpack® project.
Lucart’s innovative process, which is unique in Italy, was inaugurated in 2011 in collaboration with Tetra Pak® and required an investment of approximately 10 million euro. The Fiberpack® project aims to produce paper and other objects without cutting down any trees, alternatively through the recycling of used Tetra Pak® beverage containers composed of cellulose fibres, aluminium and polyethylene. Lucart produces tissue paper products for hygienic use with the former, while with the latter, parts of aluminium and polyethylene (plastic materials) are used by third parties to produce other objects, such as pallets, other products for the building industry and mooring poles used in the Venetian lagoon. The paper products are distributed both in the Professional sector and in the Household sector.
