Recycling of packaging materials and clothes hangers
Textile-compatible packaging materials and high-quality hangers designed to ensure proper presentation of goods in shops are vital to the fashion and lifestyle sector. It is of particular importance to our chain store customers that the largest possible amounts of recyclable materials and reusable clothes hangers are put back into circulation.
The proper recirculation (or environmentally sustainable disposal) of hangers, foil materials, paper and cardboard requires much time and attention, which members of branch staff could better employ giving advice to shop customers. We are very familiar with this challenge and have developed a special, straightforward solution for chain store operators:
We load packaging materials and reusable hangers straight back onto the vehicle.
One delivery, all services – the principle that we apply to our chain store customers is as simple as it sounds: Our delivery drivers load recyclable materials and packaging straight back onto the vehicle. No wasted time, no need to arrange additional visits.
DTL hanger recycling
DTL has been offering chain store operators a clothes hanger recycling service for many years. Reusable black hangers and transparent multiuse hangers (SKRS system) are put straight back into circulation. We ensure the eco-friendly handling of recyclable materials.
Working in cooperation with chain store operators, manufacturers and partners in the recycling industry, we are able to recirculate or make further use of some 3.5 million clothes hangers every year. This delivers raw material savings of 120 to 140 metric tons per year.
DTL foil recycling
As far back as 1996, DTL began to cooperate with manufacturers, the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück (Germany) and the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU) on a pilot project involving the recycling of foil materials used for transport purposes.
The procedure allows all mixed foil materials used for textile shipping purposes to be recycled directly into new material. The amounts being processed have become so great that foil recycling is now handled by an independent partner organisation. The result: The environment is relieved of having to deal with some 48,000 cubic metres of foil material annually.
