145 tons of label media recycled over five years

In five years, from 2015 to 2020, thanks to the RafCycle project, Cantina di Soave has recycled 145 tons of silicone paper for self-adhesive labels. By avoiding sending this waste to the incinerator and deciding rather to recycle it, the winery has saved 34.8 tons of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to what a medium-sized car would emit to travel about 229,000 km, or 1,445 times the turn Lake Garda, to say it with an image.

Cantina di Soave has always paid great attention to the issue of sustainability, both in the vineyard and in the cellar. The expansion and total logistical-production reorganization of the headquarters in Viale della Vittoria, in Soave, certainly represent the most important step in this direction, but also all the other plants of the group, over the years, have been protagonists of investments and interventions aimed at improving energy savings.

The collaboration with UPM Raflatac is also part of this perspective. In fact, to produce a bottle of wine, waste is necessarily generated: for example, the silicon paper supports of the self-adhesive labels. Exhausted reels until recently were difficult to recover and were therefore disposed of as waste. Now, thanks to the RafCycle project, it is possible to recycle these waste from the supply chain into new paper produced by Upm paper mills.

«The participation of Cantina di Soave in this project - comments the General Manager of Cantina di Soave Wolfgang Raifer - is an excellent example of circular economy. Clearly we have a considerable consumption of silicon paper supports for labels and by choosing to recycle them, rather than send them to the incinerator, we are making our small contribution. Everyone must do their part to try to improve performance and impact the environment as little as possible. In fact, it is a question of using materials and resources with intelligence ”.