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FIRMS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
G 7 - Bologna - June 11, 2017
John PERSENDA
Chairman - SPHERE Group
www.sphere.eu
A LEADING PLASTIC BAG PRODUCER
DEDICATED TO A BETTER ENVIRONMENT
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FOUNDED IN 1976 IN FRANCE, SPHERE is still independent and
has become a mid-size European Group and a European leader with :
A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS FOR OUR EVERYDAY LIVES:
• Plastic bags: garbage bags, freezer bags, fruit&vegetable bags,
reusable carrier bags …
• Paper bags for bread, food protection and packaging…
• Household wrappings: aluminium foil and containers,
cling film, baking paper, plastic containers…
• Tableware, protective equipment…
• … and Bioplastic compostable granules
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SPHERE GROUP
Plants: 14 Sales: €600 M Employees: 1300
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Not only useful but fundamental in any
environmental approach.
SPHERE started using Life Cycle Analysis in 1991.
On plastic bags, LCA helped understand that the main
two environmental impacts are:
ARE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS USEFUL?
Raw material used:
60 to 80 % of global impacts
End of life:
20 to 30 % of global impacts
RECYCLED PLASTICS
BIO-BASED PLASTICS
BIODEGRADABLE/COMPOSTABLE
AND BIO-BASED PLASTICS
Main goals for SPHERE:
• Design products allowing the most relevant end
of life solution
• Stop using fossil virgin plastic raw material
A three-pillar strategy for plastic
raw materials based on:
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Share of raw materials in SPhere production
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SIGNIFICANT IMPACT OF RAW MATERIAL MIX
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INNOVATING FOR
EVERYONE’S
LIVES IN THE FUTURE
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SPHERE STRATEGY: INNOVATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
SPHERE HAS BEEN INNOVATING FOR 40 YEARS
RECYCLED BAGS BIO-BASED BAGS BIODEGRADABLE BAGS
• To reduce dependency on oil,
• To reduce air, earth and marine pollutions
• To imagine a new development scheme
• To build more eco-friendly solutions
• To contribute to the Circular Economy
HYDROBIODEGRADABLE
PLASTICS
Now up to 100 %
in garbage bags
Vegetal Origin products
made from biobased
polyethylene
initially: industrially
compostable ( EN 13432 )
now: Home compostable
very soon, on a large scale, a
plastic that can be bio-
assimilated without any harm
done to nature and animals in
marine and fresh water
environmentsSPHERE is preparing BLUEPLAST which will be marketed next year
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For a medium size firm like SPHERE, such instruments and available specialists are very important
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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS
AND SPECIALISTS
CERTIFICATION ORGANISMS LCA SPECIALISTS SCIENTIFIC PARTNERS
SPHERE encourages the whole plastics industry to use these instruments
… … …
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• The economic world is opening up more and more.
• Regulations must help to face up to environmental
problems,
• But they should not be systematically detrimental to
local producers, who can be controlled more easily.
• International standards should be developed as much
as possible to:
• ensure free and fair trade
• avoid multiplication of national standards
• make sure that the levels of European requirements
are respected
• They should be easy to test on finished products in
order to make controls more realistic.
Environmental issues deserve the involvement
of all concerned : populations, ngo’s,
governments, firms…
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
LET’S TALK AND WORK TOGETHER TO CHANGE BEHAVIOURS
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FIRMS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
G 7 - Bologna - June 11, 2017
John PERSENDA
Chairman - SPHERE Group
www.sphere.eu
A LEADING PLASTIC BAG PRODUCER
DEDICATED TO A BETTER ENVIRONMENT