LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE

Kitchen sinks made at 100% from recycled materials?

Today it is a reality thanks to the LIFE GREEN COMPOSITEwhich comes to an end after years of intense research and experimentation.

Plados Telma, leading manufacturer of composite kitchen sinksonethanks to the project approved and co-financed by the European Commission within the LIFE+ programme, the European Unione environment fund, launched the RINNOVA, the world's first sink made from more than 90% of recycled raw materials (acrylic resin and mineral fillers) obtained from external processing waste.

Kitchen sink scraps that were once destined to become waste are now instead 100% recyclable and are used by Gees Recycling, a partner in the project, for the production of green panels. All the grinding and reuse phases of the industrial waste take place at the plants in Montelupone and Montecassiano (MC).

The project LIFE GREEN COMPOSITE was able to tackle one of the main challenges of the composite materials sector: the recovery and reuse of production waste of acrylic mineral composite sinks. A sector, that of kitchen furniture, which in Europe consumes more than 21,000 tonnes of raw materials (monomer, polymer and quartz), generating approx. 3,600 tonnes of mineral industrial waste containing polymers.

Being green at origin means transformare something that is already available into a resource, giving value to external and internal production waste and not affecting natural resources that are not rinnovaable. Through a process of regeneration of recovered raw materials, a green compound has been obtained at the origin that guarantees the same chemical, physical, mechanical and aesthetic characteristics as the traditional sink compound Plados Telma.