Responding to the demand of their hundreds of respective customers, The two specialized Reunionese companies, one in the cleanliness of the premises, the other in waste management, have put their skills in common to design an innovative system for recovering office papers for recycling. A device that leads to see the used paper in another way.
A new office accessory and a new gesture are invited this 2023 school year in Reunionere companies with the individual eco -box, Fruit of the partnership between Scte and Suez Recycling and Réunion Valuation. This new accessory is a cardboard box with a horizontal opening. Unlike the anonymous invisible paper basket at the foot of the office, The ecobox is displayed, either on the desktop, either on a nearby piece of furniture. It is distinguished from existing office eco -ecoes by this visibility and proximity enabled by its smaller and individual volume. With eco -box, We no longer throw the paper by grazing it in a ball without thinking about it, it is slipped into the slot of the box with perfect knowledge of the facts. Everything is explained on the sides of the container. The eco -box is the first step in the route leading this paper to its recycling. The box is emptied in a tank by the SCTE maintenance agent taking care of the office. The next step sees the collection and regular replacement of this tank. The paper collected then passes into the hands of Suez for the part of the industrial pretection which leads to its shipment and its recycling via the export sectors.
"You are sorting, They take care of the suite ! »
It is at the request of their own customers that the two companies, who have been cooperating for over twenty years in depollution operations, have looked into this problem, one year ago. They opted for the simplest and easier solution for the user. The client company assesses its paper consumption. It acquires the number of eco -boxes and boxes corresponding to this need (up to ten possible cases). Eco -boxes are also intended to be positioned at strategic points such as photocopier. Bac variants exist for documents spent at the crusher and, For confidential documents, such as hospitals medical files for example, Roots. The staff are made aware of the approach. With a monthly subscription, The new service takes place in the office maintenance service, mobilizing the professionals of the two partner companies. "You are sorting, They take care of the suite ! »Summarize their two leaders, Franck Perez, Director of the Suez Réunion Agency, and Vincent Bernard, CEO of SCT.
Used paper, A noble matter
"With this marriage of a proximity collection of small quantities and an industrial tool dealing with large volumes, We complete and improve what already exists in terms of treatment of used papers in Reunion. Our solution allows us to recover a noble material which if not, in the best of cases, would have been mixed with cardboard and, In the worst case, with household waste ", underline Franck Perez and Vincent Bernard. In support, Three significant figures, Also valid in Reunion : 75 %, The share of paper in office waste ; 60 kg, the annual quantity of paper waste per tertiary employee ; 25 %, the share of documents thrown five minutes after their printing ! Another virtue not to be overlooked, It is made in Reunion.
The traceability of the paper collected
The other contribution of the eco -boiled system, It is to ensure the complete traceability of the route of the recovered paper. The service includes monitoring of the quantities recovered throughout the year. An annual proof of the volume of paper collected is issued to the company. The eco -box therefore responds not only to the obligation of sorting at the source of waste given to companies by law AGEC, but also to the project to extend the declaration on sustainability which, Gradually from next year, should concern more and more companies, supporting documents.
