Recycling at billerbeck: Reusing Materials and Making Efficient Use of Resources
Recycling and Reuse in Production
An important part of our environmental management is the recycling and reuse of materials generated during the manufacture of our duvets, pillows and mattress toppers. Our aim is to use valuable raw materials as efficiently as possible, reduce production waste and reuse suitable materials.
To achieve this, leftover materials and offcuts are collected separately and sent for recovery wherever technically feasible and legally permitted. With the help of modern material recovery systems, we can reuse certain filling materials, including fibres, feathers and down, in our production processes.
By systematically returning these materials to production, we can make further use of existing raw materials and reduce the need for additional materials. Recycling is therefore an integral part of our operational resource management.
Recycling Through Cooperation with Specialised Companies
The manufacture of duvets, pillows and mattress toppers also generates leftover materials and fabric offcuts. Working with specialised companies, we use opportunities to recover and reuse these materials.
Suitable filling materials are recovered from production offcuts and returned to billerbeck for further processing. The remaining fabric strips are collected, compressed into bales and have been passed on for several years to a company that uses these materials for further recovery.
This enables us to process different components of production waste separately and return suitable materials to the relevant recovery and recycling streams.
Careful Waste Separation Supports Recycling
From Mixed Commercial Waste to Separately Collected, Recoverable Materials
Systematic waste separation provides the foundation for recovering and recycling our production waste. Through structured waste management, different materials are collected separately at our facilities and directed to suitable recovery processes.
By switching from mixed commercial waste to separately collected, recoverable materials, we have been able to significantly reduce the volume of mixed commercial waste and improve the conditions for recycling various fabrics and materials.
Recycling as Part of Our Certified Environmental Management System
Our measures for waste separation, material recovery and reuse form part of our operational environmental management. billerbeck has maintained an environmental management system certified to DIN EN ISO 14001 since 2019.
Within this system, we identify and assess relevant environmental aspects of our business activities, establish environmental objectives and measures, and regularly review their implementation.
The systematic collection of production waste, reuse of suitable materials and cooperation with recovery partners are concrete measures within our operational resource and waste management.