Sustainability overview
Rimex Sustainability Summary:
· Stainless Steel is 100% Recyclable
· Stainless Steel can be recycled indefintaley without loss of quality
· Rimex Use European stainless steel from reputable mills which contains in excess of 90% recycled content. ( Source: Outokumpu)
· Stainless steel is highly recycled through a process that is commercially driven rather than purely ethically, ensuring the pressure behind recycling remains consistent.
· Stainless steel is 94% reclaimed from building sites ( Source: bre)
· Stainless Steel in solid form is harmless and insoluble in water ensuring that anything that ends up in landfill will not contaminate the soil.
· For the same reason stainless steel does not leach from cladding into ground water as say copper or copper alloys would without rainwater capture systems.
· Rimex operate an environmental management system to ISO14001
· All Rimex products have third party verified Environment Product Declarations (EPD’s)