SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT

Recycling dance floors and projection screens

In the course of the ever-increasing discussion about the production of sustainable performances, stagings and events in the cultural and entertainment sector, Gerriets would like 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 implementation 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 theaters 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 theaters and opera houses or their central workshops are planned as collection points, in smaller cities the municipal theaters.

All theaters, cultural institutions, event service providers, etc. 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 an initial production process, the collected PVC material will be used to make baby carriage wheels and wheels for lawnmowers; a corresponding certificate of use 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.

Collection points for you are:

• Hamburg State Opera, Workshops
  Stefanie Braun (Head of Decoration Workshops)
  Cornelia-Harte-Straße 11
  20539 Hamburg
  Access at Billstrasse 30
  Phone: 040 3568 721
  stefanie.braun@staatsoper-hamburg.de
• Stage service Berlin
  Peter Kohlsmann (Deputy Managing Director; Head of Workshops)
  Am Wriezener Bahnhof 1
  10243 Berlin
  Phone: 030 2464 7760 4
  p.kohlsmann@buehnenserviceberlin.de
• Freiburg Municipal Theater
  Anne Kaiser, Technical Director
  Bertoldstraße 46 79098 Freiburg
  Contact person on site:
  Anne Kaiser Tel.: 0761-201 2861
  Delivery/collection via Sedanstraße
  Info to the Theater Pforte: 0761-2012853
• State Theater at Gärtnerplatz
  Heiko Pfützner (Technical Director)
  Warehouse
  Gruber Street 68
  85586 Poing
  Tel.: 089 2024 1241
  heiko.pfuetzner@gaertnerplatztheater.de
• Opera Cologne
  Volker Rhein (Technical Director)
  State House
  Auenweg 17
  Container site
  50679 Cologne
  Tel.: 0221 2212 8333
  volker.rhein@oper.koeln.de
• Sächs. State Opera Dresden
  Paul Radicke (Head of Stage Technology)
  Decoration workshops
  Kleine Packhofstraße
  01067 Dresden
  Tel.: 0351 4911 663
  paul.radicke@semperoper.de
• Kassel State Theater
  Mario Schomberg (Head of Stage Technology)
  Rehearsal and workshop center
  In front of the Osterholz 12
  34123 Kassel
  Tel: 0561 1094 132
  mario.schomberg@staatstheater-kassel.de
• Baden State Theater
  Sandra Kalemba / Andreas Heim
  Wachhausstraße 22
  76227 Karlsruhe
  08:00-16:00
  Phone: 0721 4067757
  andreas.heim@staatstheater.karlsruhe.de
• Theater Plauen - Zwickau gGmbH
  Sebastian Blei
  Theaterplatz 1 - 3
  08523 Plauen
  Phone: 0375 27411 4659
  produktionsleiter@theater-plauen-zwickau.de

What can I do to ensure sustainable and professional disposal?

• Get in touch with the relevant contact person and discuss the delivery location and time.
• You stack the material to be disposed of neatly in the specified storage location. Please help us to place the materials in an orderly and sensible manner. 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 theater, cultural institution or service provider?

• Sustainable disposal and the associated image boost.
• A pioneering role for all other cultural and service companies.
• 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 tons 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.