LBS Greenteam

The LBS Greenteam is a group of colleagues from various departments who focus completely on sustainability.

REASON: AT LBS CONVEYOR BELTS, WE THINK SUSTAINABILITY IS IMPORTANT!

In recent decades, the world's population has grown enormously and with it the demand for food and other products. To meet this demand, we have started producing more and more. In many cases even more than we need. As a result, more natural resources are needed than the earth can provide and depletion is a very realistic scenario.

We also make extensive use of polluting resources such as oil and gas in our daily lives. Large-scale burning of these, as a result of producing, transporting and consuming products, releases CO2 into the air. This leads to the earth warming at an ever-increasing rate and significantly increases the likelihood of destructive natural disasters.

Climate change is currently already in full swing. It can be seen and felt all over the world. For example, many animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, forest fires, earthquakes and floods follow at a furious pace, and the number of deaths and millions of euros of damage as a result are only increasing. Also, more and more areas are becoming uninhabitable and a healthy and carefree future for succeeding generations is increasingly unlikely.

At LBS Conveyor Belts, we consider sustainability important and believe it is our responsibility to contribute to a sustainable and healthy future. To give substance to this, the GreenTeam was set up. A group of colleagues from various departments who focus on making the company and its surroundings greener and more sustainable.

2. Separating waste: Various types of waste are generated in the operations of LBS Conveyor Belts. These include Rubber, A/B Wood, Paper/Carton, Iron, Aluminium, Stainless Steel, PP-Raffia, Plastic, Cans, Chemical and Residual Waste. With a view to sustainable processing, we choose to collect and dispose of the streams separately. This approach leads to efficient processing of the various materials and minimises the burden on the environment in relative terms. After all, waste processing costs energy and leads to greenhouse gas emissions.

From this perspective, we also try to give a second life to as many materials as possible. Below are some examples:

• Cans are collected and returned to the supplier for recycling;
• Remnants of PVC cleats & strings are collected and, after being processed into granulate, used as raw material for the production of boots and wheelbarrow tyres.
• A/B wood is collected and, after processing into wood pellets, used as a raw material for the wood fibre and chipboard industry or serves as fuel in bio-energy plants, among others.
• Paper/cardboard: Around 75% of the paper collected is recycled and, after processing, reused in the paper industry to produce, for example, boxes and newspapers.
• Packaging film is baled after collection and processed in renewed form into, for example, plastic gloves or fleece jumpers.