In a bid to improve the reprocessing of industrial sacks after use, Gascogne Sack in south west France has launched GascoGreen Natura, targeting all business sectors including construction materials, chemicals and food processing.
GascoGreen Natura is said to be the first film-free organic paper sack which is recyclable, compostable, biodegradable, and certified by Vinçotte to European standard EN 13432 as OK compost, OK compost HOME and OK biodegradable SOIL.
After use, the GascoGreen Natura sack can be reprocessed as waste, the company says. It can be removed from the waste cycle through the available processes and programmes, collected, treated and reused in the form of raw materials or products, in accordance with ISO 14021.
Thorough laboratory tests have shown that it can be broken down naturally by living organisms, disintegrating within less than 12 weeks in an industrial composting facility.
GascoGreen Natura is a valve sack made of PEFC certified natural kraft paper (brown or white), which is coated, rather than using the film usually present in traditional cement sacks. Thus, GascoGreen Natura contains no film, whether of plant or fossil origin, nor any heavy metals.
Like all paper base sacks by Gascogne Sack – France’s leading multi-specialist producer of wood products, based in the Landes forest – GascoGreen Natura is printed with water-based inks, in order to reduce adverse impact on nature.
The coating has a water repelling effect, which provides a good barrier against water and better protection over time of the inks used in the printed visual on the bag.
No special machines are required for GascoGreen Natura’s use – it can be used on the entire bagging line at industrial production rates.
In the spring of 2012, the Holcim group, a leading supplier of construction materials worldwide and long-term partner of Gascogne Sack, will be the first to use the GascoGreen Natura sack for its Premium Multi-Use cement – an eco-designed product in the Cimcool range.
A priority for Gascogne Sack, the construction sector represents 61% of all sacks sold (source: Euroac, Jan-Sep 2011), of which 30% go to cement packaging.
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