Certified climate protection
The RIGK climate protection certificate for the fields of industry, commerce and agriculture
RIGK trademark users from the fields of industry, trade and agriculture receive from us a mark of recognition for their active environmental protection and active product responsibility: the climate protection certificate. This certificate confirms the annually-achieved CO2-savings in kilograms, clearly displayed through the number of trees which bind the appropriate quantity of greenhouse gases per year.
Greenhouse gas balance based on ISO standard
To be able to calculate these values for each of our customers individually, RIGK, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for the Environment, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, has set up a CO2 balance based on the ISO standards 14040 and 14044 for six recovery systems: RIGK-SYSTEM, RIGK-G-SYSTEM, RIGK-PICKUP, PAMIRA, ERDE-Recycling and VerenA.
The calculations in detail
The reference system for our calculations reflected in our climate protection certificates are the respective actually recycled quantities. One cycle in the recycling circuit is used for the balance: the negative side of the material flow balance contains all the CO2 emissions incurred during collection, transportation and during the material or energetic recycling of plastic waste. In contrast, the respective credits from the material use through savings in primary granulate or from the energy obtained for the energetic recycling are listed on the positive side of the balance.
From the entire climate balance of the recycling systems- for 2025, saving of 51.660 t CO2 results across all the RIGK-systems. The total reduction corresponds to the calculated greenhouse gas emissions from over 3.7 million trees per year in Europe.
