IFCO Donates Environmentally Friendly RPCs All Over the World
21 January 2016 - 8:00PM
Business Wire
Worldwide support for Food Banks by IFCO SYSTEMS Group, Free
provision of IFCO RPCs and co-financing of refrigerated vans
IFCO SYSTEMS, the leading global provider of reusable packaging
solutions, has donated more than 200,000 RPCs (Reusable Plastic
Containers) to food banks since the start of its initiative for the
support of food banks. Wolfgang Orgeldinger, CEO of the IFCO
SYSTEMS Group, said: “In many countries of the world, the food
banks make an excellent contribution to supply food to people in
need. In addition, with their work they help to avoid that good
foodstuff is wasted, ending up in the garbage bin.” IFCO provides
the food banks on a free-of-charge basis with IFCO RPCs for the
collection and distribution of food and, in addition, supports the
food banks with the voluntary work of IFCO employees and by
co-financing refrigerated vans. “We strongly believe in the food
bank activities, and our products and services can be used by the
food banks in an optimal way, helping them with their work. We
therefore concentrate all our social activities on the food banks
and globally support them in all countries where we are active,” Mr
Orgeldinger added.
Thus the food banks received ample support in 2015. IFCO
Germany added 20 more food banks to those already supported by
the company. The free provision of RPCs helps to organize the food
bank processes and contributes to clearly reduce or even avoid the
costs for the disposal of one way cartons. 4 new refrigerated vans
were bought within the framework of the cooperation with the
Bundesverband Deutsche Tafel e.V. (Federal Association of German
Food Banks) for the co-financing of refrigerated vans.
In Austria, a new refrigerated van for the Viennese food
bank was co-financed and delivered to the general manager of the
Viennese food bank, Dr. Alexandra Gruber, in October 2015.
IFCO France supported the Banque Alimentaire
(www.banquealimentaire.org/) with regular donations of RPCs. Once a
year, on the last weekend of November, a national campaign is
started by the Banque Alimentaire in big supermarkets with the aim
of collecting donated food items that are subsequently distributed
to people in need via humanitarian organizations or charities. Also
last year, the whole team of IFCO France helped to collect food
donations in an Intermarché supermarket. Within 2 days, the team
collected 2,630 tons equaling approx. 5,260 meals (up 13.1% from
the previous year).
IFCO Italy supported the Banco Alimentare
(www.bancoalimentare.it) with the financing of food vouchers for
people in need. This donation by IFCO Italy was made possible also
thanks to customers who accepted to receive their Christmas
greetings by email instead of printed cards. With this Christmas
email, the customers were also invited by IFCO to make donations to
the Banco Alimentare themselves.
IFCO UK intensified the cooperation with the Trussell
Trust in 2015 with the clear objective of increasing the use of
RPCs in their network. A total of 15,000 new RPCs were donated, by
the help of which the Trussell Trust succeeded in occupying storage
space in a more efficient way and reducing the amount of waste that
would otherwise have been caused by the use of one-way packaging.
More than 40,000 plastic containers have already been donated since
the beginning of the cooperation. In addition, IFCO UK also
supports the Trussell Trust with a long-time program for the
financing of refrigerated vans for food banks. In 2015, a Mercedes
Sprinter was delivered to the Brent Foodbank. In December,
employees of IFCO UK participated once again at the yearly
Christmas basket campaign of the Tower Hamlets Foodbank and helped
with the preparation and distribution of Christmas baskets to
people in need.
In South America, employees of IFCO BRASIL continued
their regular support for the Ong Banco de Alimentos
(www.bancodealimentos.org.br/). About 650 new RPCs were
donated.
IFCO Spain supported the food banks in Madrid, Huelva and
Asturias with RPC donations. In a similar way, also last year
IFCO North America continued to support food banks with
money and donations in kind, in the form of RPCs.
“From our point of view, the work of the food banks is a very
important contribution to support people in need all over the
world. IFCO will therefore continue its successful cooperation with
the food banks also in 2016,” said Wolfgang Orgeldinger.
Additional Information
IFCO is the leading global provider of reusable packaging
solutions, operating a pool of over 225 million Reusable Plastic
Containers (RPCs) in 37 countries. IFCO RPCs are used primarily to
transport fresh products from producers to leading grocery
retailers worldwide. IFCO's solutions help retailers and producers
reduce costs and increase sales by maximizing efficiency, product
protection, sustainability, and safety throughout their supply
chains. IFCO is a member of the Brambles family of companies. For
more information, visit www.ifco.com.
About Brambles
Brambles Limited (ASX:BXB) is a supply-chain logistics company
operating in more than 50 countries, primarily through the CHEP and
IFCO brands. The group is specialized in the pooling of unit-load
equipment and related services and concentrates on the outsourced
management of pallets, crates and containers. Brambles primarily
serves the supply chains for consumer goods, dry and fresh food,
food retail trade and general manufacturing industries. The Group
is also active in specialized sectors and supports the automotive,
aerospace and oil and gas industries. Brambles employs more than
14,000 people and owns more than 500 million pallets, crates and
containers through a network of approximately 850 service centers.
For further information, please visit www.brambles.com.
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