Snips chooses Tritan™ Renew for a new sustainable line of housewares

Snips sustainable water bottles and food storage containers can be found in the present day and help the corporate’s eco-friendly initiatives. “Sustainability is on the core of our enterprise,” says Snips proprietor Raffaele Piacenza. “Reusable housewares are a sensible strategy to eradicate single-use plastic waste. We have to begin enthusiastic about new options to benefit from the benefits that plastic presents whereas lowering waste. Eastman shares our dedication to sustainability and recycling. Now and sooner or later, Snips will likely be a steadfast participant within the round financial system.”

Tritan Renew is made by means of Eastman’s Superior Round Recycling — also called molecular recycling — which breaks down plastic waste into elementary constructing blocks for use once more in manufacturing processes. By changing conventional fossil feedstocks with recycled content material, the corporate helps to divert plastic waste from landfills, incinerators and our oceans. The method additionally produces fewer greenhouse fuel emissions than manufacturing with fossil feedstocks.

Not like these comprised of mechanically recycled plastic, merchandise made with Tritan Renew current no trade-offs in high quality, offering the efficiency shoppers demand. That is as a result of Tritan Renew is chemically similar to legacy Eastman Tritan™ copolyester, the business customary for readability, shatter resistance and dishwasher sturdiness.

The brand new 4 Recycle line of Snips water bottles and plastic storage containers represents the primary adoption of Tritan Renew within the EMEA market. “We’re excited to assist Snips increase its eco-friendly lineup,” says Eastman Market Growth Supervisor Arnold van den Berg. “We imagine Tritan Renew, as a manner of lowering plastic waste, will resonate with their prospects. These sturdy bottles and containers characterize each ‘R’ within the eco-conscience mantra we embrace at Eastman: cut back, reuse, recycle. We stay up for a protracted and collaborative relationship. In reality, to increase the supply of our Renew merchandise, we’re constructing a new plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facility in Kingsport, Tennessee. This will likely be one of many largest on the earth, changing greater than 100,000 metric tons of plastic waste to make new sustainable supplies.”

Manufacturers can be taught extra about how Tritan Renew may help meet their sustainability objectives by visiting eastman.com/tritanrenew. For extra info on molecular recycling and the round financial system, go to eastman.eco.

*Through its Superior Round Recycling applied sciences, Eastman produces round merchandise which can be licensed by the Worldwide Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) by mass stability allocation. ISCC is a third-party international certification system that addresses sustainability necessities for all feedstocks and markets. Mass stability accounting tracks recycled content material utilized in advanced manufacturing programs. When plastic waste is damaged down, the building-block molecules are positioned in a digital stock of the quantity of sustainable content material generated. To supply merchandise that carry licensed recycled content material, a withdrawal is comprised of the credit score financial institution to account for the recycled constructing blocks.

About Eastman
Based in 1920, Eastman is a world specialty supplies firm that produces a broad vary of merchandise present in gadgets individuals use on daily basis. With the aim of enhancing the standard of life in a fabric manner, Eastman works with prospects to ship revolutionary merchandise and options whereas sustaining a dedication to security and sustainability. The corporate’s innovation-driven development mannequin takes benefit of world-class expertise platforms, deep buyer engagement, and differentiated utility growth to develop its main positions in enticing finish markets akin to transportation, constructing and building, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and numerous firm, Eastman employs roughly 14,500 individuals around the globe and serves prospects in additional than 100 international locations. The corporate had 2020 revenues of roughly $8.5 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For extra info, go to www.eastman.com.

About Snips S.r.l.
One of many guiding ideas of the corporate is that introducing a small enchancment as a day by day occasion turns into a bonus that multiplies over time, enhancing individuals’s lives. The fixed consideration to sophisticated design, the pattern in direction of sturdy, extremely useful merchandise, results in the continual seek for new supplies and new processes. Snips desires, designs and manufactures its merchandise in Italy to acquire the best high quality in each side of the product at each stage of manufacturing: creativity, innovation, expertise, aesthetic worth — 100% made in Italy. All manufacturing, meeting and packaging is carried out in Italy. Every cargo leaves from the Ossago Lodigiano plant to attenuate the dealing with of products, guaranteeing a decrease environmental impression alongside all the provide chain.

The manufacturing vegetation use low power consumption programs. Every processing and cargo is supervised by the High quality Division. Headquartered in Ossago Lodigiano, Italy. For extra info, go to www.snips.it.

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