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This platform is created as part of the NODES project, funded by the MUR on M4C2 funds - Investment 1.5 “Innovation Ecosystems” Notice, as part of the PNRR funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU (Grant agreement Cod. n.ECS00000036)
The numbers of 25 years of activity of the Consortium speak for themselves: 63 million tons of wooden packaging have been released for consumption, essential to ensure modern and sustainable logistics, 34 million tons of wood have been recycled and 10 million tons of packaging have been reused, equal to 800 million regenerated pallets and returned for consumption. (April 7, 2024)
• Allow damaged pallets to be repaired and returned to the market, to extend their life cycle and avoid the generation of waste (pallets represent one of the fundamental elements of tertiary wine packaging due to its unsafe handling);
• Promote, where possible, forms of recovery wooden goods preventive for recycling;
• To contribute to the objectives set by the PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation) European, in terms of reducing packaging waste.
In 11 Italian regions (in the North-West in Piedmont and Lombardy) there are pallet regeneration structures (repairers), which work following the phases of:
• collection: organized by the users, or reception directly at the headquarters;
• selection: identification of pallets that can be immediately reused, those that need to be regenerated and those that are not repairable or do not comply with the rules of use;
• regeneration (which involves two sub-phases):
- repair: removal of defects and damage in compliance with technical regulations on permitted interventions (unscrewing broken solids or blocks and replacement of defective elements with new or undamaged semi-finished products);
- reconstruction: reuse of elements recovered from packaging that can no longer be repaired;
• treatment: the non-reusable parts of the pallets are transformed, thanks to recycling, into secondary raw material.
regenerated and returned to consumption
Of pallets in the North-West
• 1957 members;
• CONAI (National Packaging Consortium): waste management system within which it operates.
Research conducted by the Politecnico di Milano, curated by professors and researchers Marika Arena, Giovanni Azzone, Lauradell'Agostino and Giulia Piantoni, and presented in May 2023, quantified the systemic advantages of the activities of the consortium, with a zoom dedicated to the impacts of the regeneration activity:
Social:
• value 4,481 of FTE - Full Time Equivalent: units of work that would not otherwise exist. (FTE allows you to convert the work of part-time, freelance, or fixed-term contract employees into a full-time equivalent)
Cheap:
• 1,319 million euros in added value, including wage-induced production (almost 390 million), from materials otherwise destined to be considered waste.
Environmental:
The LCA analysis conducted, which considered repairing a pallet with recycled agglomerated wood blocks for a total of 903,041 tons of pallets, demonstrated savings of +700,000 t of CO2 Eq (66,678 t of CO2 Eq emitted by repair activities, compared to 779,998 t of CO2 Eq emitted by a possible waste-to-energy plant).
1997
Rilegno is the national consortium that deals with the collection, recovery and recycling of wooden packaging. It was founded in 1997 following the entry into force of Legislative Decree no. 22 of 1997, the so-called Ronchi Decree, which provides for a new management system based on separate collection and aimed at encouraging the collection, reuse, recovery and recycling of raw materials. Rilegno operates within the Conai system (National Packaging Consortium) and has the task of ensuring the achievement of the objectives set by law for the overall recovery of post-consumer wooden packaging such as pallets, boxes, crates, cages and cable reels coming both from the separate collection implemented by municipal administrations and from the collection carried out by private operators in industries and large retailers.
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