Nearly 35 million industrial packagings, such as steel and plastic drums as well as intermediate bulk containers, are reconditioned and returned to productive service by RIPA members every single year. Not only do reused industrial packagings save massive amounts of carbon emissions when compared to newly manufactured single-trip packagings of the same type, they are nearly perfect examples of Circular Economy principles, which place reuse at the top of the environmental pyramid, ahead of recycling.
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