Polyco Healthline Industrial Gloves Catalogue

Why are we so focused on Sustainability?

Under our phAMBITION program, here at Polyco Healthline we are committed to making the world a safer and cleaner place. Both now and in years to come. It is well documented that over 1 million plastic bottles are sold every minute, and that only 9% of these get recycled. This includes our contribution here in the UK alone of 7.7 billion plastic bottles per year (that’s an average of 117 bottles used by each of us). But what does that really mean? Each year between 5 and 13 million tonnes of plastic are leaked into the oceans, and it is thought that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish (by weight) in our oceans. And how does that affect us? Aside from the collapse of the natural environment, studies have shown that we may be consuming 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles a year. Importantly these studies show that we consume these via multiple channels and that avoiding consuming plastic in our diet is very difficult, ‘if not impossible’.

Our Services Green Promise

What are we doing about it at a product level? Product level environmentally friendly solutions for industrial gloves pose the biggest challenge to us as a manufacturer. Because we design products for performance, longevity and comfort, materials are often blended and combined - making it harder to offer solutions. However, thanks to our market leading R&D program, we have been the first to bring to market industrial gloves made in part from recycled plastic bottles (Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate or RPET for short). Many textile raw materials are plastic based; polyester & nylon are widely used for example. By using RPET instead, with each pair of gloves, we give a home to 1 of the 480 billion plastic bottles used every year.

At present we have this technology in two general handling gloves, a thermal glove and two cut resistant glove options – But keep an eye on our social media for updates and new launches. Across the wider business we have compostable gloves, compostable car seat covers and dissolvable screen wash tablets that save plastic.

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