SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT: RECYCLING OF DANCE FLOORS AND PROJECTION FOILS

In the course of the ever-increasing discussion about the production of sustainable performances, stagings and events in the cultural and entertainment sector, Gerriets wants to break new ground. We are committed to returning recyclable materials that we supply to the cultural and entertainment sector back into the product cycle as effectively as possible and at no cost to the customer. In this way, we want to contribute step by step to the realisation of sustainable productions in our industry.

After a long search, we have found an innovative recycling company as a partner and are now in the test phase with several large theatres and opera houses and their central workshops. The concept

Collection points have been set up in several major German cities where all pure PVC dance floors, dance floors with foamed backs and all projection and round horizon foils made of PVC can be collected free of charge. The large theatres and opera houses or their central workshops are planned as collection points, in smaller towns the municipal theatres.

All theatres, cultural institutions, event service providers and the like can deliver the materials described above to the respective collection points by prior arrangement, place them in the designated area and dispose of them free of charge.

In a first production process, pram wheels and wheels for lawnmowers are made from the collected PVC material; a corresponding utilisation certificate is of course available on request. In a second step, the plan is to use the recycled material to manufacture sustainably produced products with a high recycled content for the culture and entertainment sector.

What do I do to ensure sustainable and professional disposal?

• You contact the relevant contact person and discuss the delivery location and the time of delivery.
• You stack the material to be disposed of neatly in the specified storage location. Please help us to dispose of the materials properly and sensibly. We are very grateful to the respective contact persons for making these places available and do not want to cause you unnecessary work.
• Please only put down PVC dance floors or PVC foils. No other materials should be disposed of in the pile.
• Painted PVC dance floors or PVC projection films can also be disposed of in this way.

What's in it for you as a theatre, cultural institution or service provider?

• Sustainable disposal and the associated image boost.
• A pioneering role for all other cultural and service organisations.
• A real cost saving, the PVC dance floors and projection foils no longer have to be disposed of in the mixed waste at high cost. With an expected total quantity of 40 - 80 tonnes of PVC dance floors and projection foils in the start-up phase, the disposal costs saved are already between 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 euros plus VAT.
• The knowledge that you are doing something good for the environment.