Moens Packaging wants to contribute to a sustainable future for humanity and the planet. Where possible, we try to contribute as much as we can and implement changes, particularly in the following areas:

Products: reconditioning and recycling of used products
Business and infrastructure: power consumption, personnel, etc.
Working methods

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Sustainability statement

We have been selected as an SDG Pioneer

Moens Packaging is proud to announce that we have obtained the SDG Pioneer certificate. This demonstrates that we are actively working towards the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We have obtained the VCDO certificate.

Following our efforts last year, we are pleased to announce that we have achieved the Voka Charter for Sustainable Entrepreneurship.

VCDO Certificate

Participation in the Sustainable Business Charter

We are proud to announce that we are participating in the Voka's Sustainable Entrepreneurship Charter! 🌱

What does this mean?

Moens Packaging will draw up an action plan with at least 10 sustainability objectives linked to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These actions will help us to operate even more consciously and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Our impact on the SDGs

My Recycled Content portal (Valipac)

Valipac awards a bonus of €50/ton of recycled material to companies that purchase plastic packaging.

What does this mean?

Valipac awards a bonus of €50/ton of recycled material to companies that purchase plastic packaging that:

Made from at least 30% post-consumer recycled material,
Used to package goods and sell them in Belgium,
The manufacturer/distributor can be found on the portal, and the products are also listed on the portal.,
You are a Valipac customer.

Thanks to this portal, companies can find manufacturers/distributors that sell recycled packaging.

Our customers can receive this bonus when they purchase our products listed on the “My Recycled Content” portal.

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Start of food forest construction & donation to VZW Durme

Based on our sales of eco-friendly packaging, we were able to donate to VZW Durme for their project at Molsbroek involving excavation for the little bittern and the otter. We have also been able to contribute to the creation of our own food forest in Grembergen.

Our colleagues have been busy planting various young fruit trees on our site, including cherry, pear, apple, mirabelle plum, and many more. The first steps have now been taken, but further planting of the food forest with various fruit bushes, herbs, and more is still planned.

Did you know that the little bittern is the smallest heron in Europe?

More information about our food forest

Expansion of Wet Nature & United Packaging Forest

In the first semester of 2022, Moens Packaging committed to a local project for the development of valuable wetland nature! This has enabled us to help restore the otter's habitat. 🦦

This valuable but also vulnerable wetland nature helps to bridge longer periods of drought on the one hand and acts as a buffer against heavy rainfall on the other. And did you know that wetland nature itself captures more CO2 than forests?

For the second semester of 2022, we have committed ourselves to planting trees and thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

With your help, Moens Packaging has been able to contribute to the purchase and planting of 293 trees and 5000 m² of wetland nature in 2022. To this end, we are working together with United Packaging Forest & VZW Durme.

The otter remains in the region

Start United Packaging forest

Moens Packaging has decided to donate an amount to an ecological project dedicated to protecting our natural environment for every €10,000 in sales of ecological packaging. This can vary from planting trees to supporting local initiatives for restoring and optimally designing wetland nature.

In 2021, we threw ourselves wholeheartedly into the United Packaging Forest project. Thanks to sales of 24,61% in eco-friendly packaging, we were able to contribute to the planting of 600 trees. 🌳

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Investments over the years

375

solar panels

Energy

of windmills

7400 m²

restored nature

Recycled packaging

Discover our various packaging solutions made from recycled and reconditioned materials.

PCR or Post-Consumer Recycled HDPE/PP

Plastic waste from consumers is collected, sorted, cleaned, and processed into recycled bottles, jerry cans, buckets and bundles -and lid barrels.

Discover the advantages and disadvantages of PCR.

PIR or Post-Industrial Recycled HDPE/PP

Surplus materials from the packaging production process are collected, recycled internally, and processed into recycled jerry cans, bottles, etc. The advantage of this method (as opposed to PCR) is that the chemical structure of the PIR packaging is not affected because it is an internal recycling process.

Discover the advantages and disadvantages of PIR.

RPET or Recycled PET

Plastic waste from consumers is collected and then sorted to separate out PET packaging. This packaging is cleaned and processed into recycled PET bottles. It is possible to choose the percentage of recycled PET. The higher the RPET percentage, the more irregularities (speckles, color differences, etc.) there will be in the bottle.

Discover the advantages and disadvantages of RPET.

Reconditioned packaging

Metal strapping– and barrel lids, plastic drums or IBCs are chemically cleaned with a soap solution, followed by leak testing. These containers have the same properties as the new variants, but can no longer be used for foodstuffs.