Salus Sustainability Report 2021 - Report - Page 27
Direct environmental impact
Packaging materials.
100%
OUR TONICS PACKAGING:
Waste has become a worldwide problem, which makes packaging
materials all the more relevant. We aim to produce as little waste
from packaging as possible. As a producer of natural medicines,
this is not an easy task, seeing as protecting our products must
be our priority at all times.
RECY
CLABLE
For our liquid products, including our tonics and tinctures, we
always use glass, for example. Glass offers optimum protection
for our products and can be recycled multiple times.
We are constantly trying to find new, more sustainable packaging. Once we found a material, we run extensive machine
and stability tests. Only if the material meets all our qualitative
and ecological requirements would we start switching over to
the new packaging. Wherever possible, we try to reduce the
amount of packaging material used. In late 2019, we stopped
using transparent wrapping for the folding boxes used with our
flavour-protection tea bags. This helped us save 2.8 t of wrapping
film per year.
A dedicated interdisciplinary team was set up and will boost our
efforts in this regard in the future. Their task will be to thoroughly screen and assess which improvements would help make our
packaging even more eco-friendly.
-2.8 t
WITH OUR TEA BOXES, WE NOW SAVE
Key indicators on land use:
Page 72 – diagram 04 (Salus)
Page 74 – diagram 19 (Schoenenberger)
OF WRAPPING
FILM PER YEAR
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