Recycling & environmental protection

The swissplast^® group, as one of the largest companies in the thermoforming sector with four plants in Europe, is once again taking on the pioneering role in environmental protection. Having already been CO₂-neutral in production since 2013, swissplast will go one step further from 2021 onwards! swissplast^® neutralises the complete CO₂ emissions of all products manufactured and sold – from raw material extraction to the customer, including recycling!

swissplast^® is probably the first plastic thermoforming company in the world to undertake full responsibility for the CO₂ emissions caused by all the products it manufactures. Since 2013, long before many other companies in the industry, swissplast^® has been committed to climate-neutral production.

Now it is going one step further. In recent months, the swissplast^® management, together with a certified partner, has carried out a calculation of the CO₂ emissions of all products based on the “Greenhouse Gas Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard” (GHG Protocol).

The calculation followed the “cradle-to-customer plus waste” approach. Thus, the life cycle phases considered include the extraction of raw materials and packaging, relevant logistics processes, the manufacture of the product, the delivery of the goods to the customer’s factory gate and relevant disposal emissions of the product and packaging.

Out of personal commitment, swissplast^® has chosen a project in India. In a rural region in India, wind turbines generate environmentally friendly electricity. They replace the power plants that are common in this region, which are avoided with quantities of greenhouse gases and pollutants.

• Certificate Partner in Climate Protection – Climate neutral swissplast-products

At some point, every thermoformed product comes to the end of its life. Then it is time to dispose of it. Plastics offer three very different options here.

• Recycling through mechanical processing
• Recycling by splitting the plastics
• Recycling by incineration of the plastics

Our company processes almost all plastic waste into a high-quality regenerate by means of mechanical recycling. The waste is pre-sorted, shredded, i.e. mechanically prepared and then processed. This regenerate is reused in our own products to close the cycle there. Read also our report on recycling plastics.

Further information by the Swiss Plastics Association. Our industry takes responsibility. The Swiss Plastics Association provides additional information at: We take responsibility.