Sustainability

REPI promotes sustainable development to protect the environment and future generations by offering solutions that favour the use of recycled plastics.

For REPI development is only possible if it is sustainable over time. This means, for REPI, having particular attention and sensitivity in its business choices and in recognizing the need for continuous evolution and achievement of objectives that protect and improve the world we live in today and that we will leave to our children tomorrow.

The REPI GROUP undertakes to manage its plants in full compliance with current regulations on environmental protection, minimizing energy consumption and fighting against any waste of resources. Inside the REPI plants there is rigorous collection and recovery of waste, so that nothing that is recyclable is lost. The REPI offices are also committed to promoting civic education for students in their area, who will be the adults of tomorrow.

For REPI development is only possible if it is sustainable over time. This means, for REPI, having particular attention and sensitivity in its business choices and in recognizing the need for continuous evolution and achievement of objectives that protect and improve the world we live in today and that we will leave to our children tomorrow.

The company of REPI undertake to prefer local suppliers when possible, to contribute to the development of the community of which they are part. REPI offices are also committed to promoting civic education for students in their area, who will be the adults of tomorrow.

In pursuing sustainable development REPI is inspired by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which represent an urgent call to action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership.

At REPI, we are guided by a compelling vision and a clear mission shared among our employees and our stakeholders alike. We commit to consistently behave with the values and principles we aspire to.

Guided by its four core values — excellence, care, synergies, long term – REPI works to be a leader in responsible and sustainable development.

A Whistleblowing reporting channel called REPIdirect is made available for all employees and stakeholders to report potential cases of misconduct or other fraudulent activity securely and confidentially.
REPI encourages the reporting of any instances of suspected unethical, illegal, corrupt, fraudulent, or serious misconduct involving REPI’s business and provides protections and measures to individuals who make a disclosure in relation to such conduct without fear of retaliation.
The Whistleblowing Policy available on request applies to all employees, collaborators, consultants, suppliers, partners and all other stakeholders of REPI Group.

The economic growth model that has characterized the world economy in the last century is defined as a “linear economy”, a market economy based on the extraction of raw materials, on mass production and consumption and on the disposal of waste once the product’s end of life is reached.

The incessant flow of extraction and disposal, expensive and inefficient, is one of the main causes of phenomena such as the emission of greenhouse gases, marine and terrestrial pollution and consequential climate change, as well as having implications for the global geopolitical balance. The implementation of an alternative development model is necessary and desirable: the valorisation of consumption waste, the extension of the product life cycle, the use of recycled raw materials, the use of energy from renewable sources, are all able to trigger a responsible way of producing and consuming, which improves the environmental conditions of our planet and the life of its inhabitants.

The alternative developed by illustrious thinkers such as physicists, economists, architects, designers is that of a new, more sustainable model called the “circular economy”.

An economic system designed to be able to regenerate itself, where the flows of materials are divided into two types:

• Biological waste, capable of being reintegrated into the biosphere;
• Technical waste, destined to be revalued without entering the biosphere.

This definition comes from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, one of the most active organisations in promoting this development model, which has estimated that the circular economy can generate an economic benefit of 1,800 billion euros by 2030, can give a boost to GDP by an additional 7 percentage points, can create new jobs and increase annual resource productivity by 3%.

The circular economy is based on three principles:

• Reduce product packaging, waste of raw materials, quantities of products and materials that are not needed and that are thrown away without even being used;
• Reuse what we throw away and reintroduce it into production cycles, thus extending the life cycle of goods;
• Recycle non-usable scraps and waste, in such a way as to recover materials, to create new products, avoiding waste of resources and reducing the overall quantity of waste destined for landfills.

It is precisely around these three aspects that world economies are building a new paradigm of sustainability, innovation and competitiveness, in a scenario where even waste is turned from a problem into a resource.