02

MEASURES

FOR SORTING

HOW PET BOTTLES ARE PROCESSED

AT ŠKODA AUTO

T

he automotive company aims at preventing

the creation of waste and make good use of

available resources. When waste is created by

some production process, we meticulously apply

the sequence of individual approaches governing

its processing - the use of waste for material and

energy is preferred to dumping.

How we sort plastic

PET bottles including tops are gathered in clearly marked bags and containers at the automotive company. The purchasing and placement of

these containers is up to individual operations or instance, in o ces ou ll find specific trash

bins or lastic E , in other areas ou can find

bags with a distinct colour. In case of PET plastic, that colour is usually yellow. Plastic waste

prepared in this way is collected by our partner

company and delivered to a sorting line, where

undesirable types of waste are manually separated and removed. Individual PET bottles are

then divided based on colour. The sorted plastic

is pressed into bundles and moved to recycling,

where it is crushed into small a es which are

subsequently cleaned by repeated washing and

dr ing. nce the a es are clean, the are moved

to the granulating machine, where under high

temperature and pressure they are transformed

into plastic granules - a recycled material.

Products made from plastic granules are often of the same quality and just as resilient as

those made o first grade materials.

A good example

At FIS, they are also searching for how to prevent the

creation of plastic waste in administrative buildings.

Within their reduction, they are gradually stopping

the insertion of plastic bags into trash bins intended

for paper. In order to further support waste sorting,

a new graphical identification of trash bins is being

gradually implemented: blue for paper, yellow for PET

and black for general waste (see image). Right now, nonproduction premises sort paper and PET. Other plastic

waste (e.g., plastic cups from yoghurt or drinks or plastic

food containers) are disposed of in the same way as

communal waste.

Day w/o Plastics

Take part in our challenge: try to live

one day without using plastic, and

document how it goes! How? Replace

a plastic toothbrush with one made of

bamboo, have your favourite drink in

your own mug, replace plastic bottles by

glass or steel ones, go shopping without

a plastic bag, limit the purchasing of

products in plastic packs etc. You can

tell us how your day w/o plastics went

(including photos) by sending an email to:

interni.komunikace@skoda-auto.cz

RECYCLING OF PET BOTTLES

MAKES SENSE. THAT IS WHY

WE’RE CALLING ON YOU

TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE

PROPERLY SORTED - IT IS

ONLY POSSIBLE TO REUSE

THIS WASTE THANKS TO

YOUR CONTRIBUTION.

PET BOTTLES ARE

VERY LARGE. BEFORE

DISPOSING OF THEM

IN THE APPROPRIATE

SORTED WASTE BIN, YOU

SHOULD ALWAYS REDUCE

THEIR VOLUME. BEFORE

THROWING THEM AWAY,

EMPTY THEM, STEP ON

THEM AND THEN CLOSE

THEM WITH THE LID.

DID YOU

KNOW THAT...

... OTHER PLASTIC WASTE DOES NOT

BELONG IN THE PET BOTTLE TRASH

BINS LOCATED IN THE PRODUCTION

AND NON-PRODUCTION PREMISES

OF ŠKODA AUTO? PACKAGING

FROM SNACKS, CUPS FROM DRINKS,

SINGLE-USE FOOD CONTAINERS

ETC. – ALL OF THESE ARE THROWN

INTO TRASH BINS INTENDED FOR

COMMUNAL WASTE, WHICH IS THEN

ENERGETICALLY EXPLOITED.

THERE ARE MANY VARIED

USES FOR RECYCLED

PLASTIC - IT IS USED FOR

NEW PET BOTTLES, TEXTILE

FIBRE, OTHER PLASTIC

PACKAGING, FASHION

ACCESSORIES, CARPETS,

SLEEPING BAGS AND MANY

OTHERS.

81.5

TONS OF PET BOTTLES HAVE

BEEN PRODUCED AT ŠKODA

AUTO IN 2018

What type of waste

do you sort at home?

347,233

PLASTIC 5,935

PET BOTTLES HAVE BEEN

PURCHASED BY EMPLOYEES

IN JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019

69

PERCENT OF PLASTIC

PACKAGING IN THE CZECH

REPUBLIC HAS BEEN SORTED

AND RECYCLED, BASED ON

EKO-KOM

47

BASED ON THE SAME

SOURCE, IN 2017 EACH

CITIZEN OF THE CZECH

REPUBLIC SORTED 47

KILOGRAMS OF WASTE ON

AVERAGE

PAPER 5,481

GLASS 5,389

CARDBOARD 2,858

METAL 3,054

BIOLOGICAL WASTE 2,234

ALUMINIUM PACKAGING 1,467

A total of 6,488 Škoda employees took part in the survey

on the Employee Portal from March 2019

A QUIZ WHICH TESTS WHETHER YOU KNOW HOW TO CORRECTLY SORT COMMUNAL WASTE IS

available on page 32 of this issue of Škoda Mobile

APRIL 2019 ŠKODA MOBIL 15