Waste2Energy Scheme

No authority in the UK currently provides a municipal recycling system for multi-laminate materials like those used for FLAVIA Filterpacks. To help with this issue we have established a program, through the non-for-profit organisation Save-a-Cup, that turns the used Filterpacks into energy.

If all UK FLAVIA Filterpacks were part of the scheme, enough energy would be generated to light 10,000 homes for a year. By joining you can reduce the use of valuable natural resources and help generate electricity.

How does it work?

Used FLAVIA Filterpacks are collected by Save-a-Cup and sent to a Energy plant to be turned into electricity. This electricity is fed into the national grid and used to provide energy for the nations homes, reducing the need for non-renewable fossil fuels.

People are sometime concerned about emissions from Energy plants. FLAVIA Filterpacks have been designed to burn cleanly and all chlorine-containing compounds (associated with the production of dioxins) were removed from our packaging several years ago. Whilst some CO2 is released in the process, this gas is actually 20 times less potent a greenhouse gas than methane which is released from landfill sites.

What else are we looking into?

In addition to introducing this scheme, we are also investing into research for a solution to recycle multi-laminate packaging. We hope to have developed a solution by 2010.

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