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UPM ProFi Deck & Environment
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UPM PROFI DECK AND THE ENVIRONMENT ® The long lasting and environmentally friendly UPM ProFi Deck offers new levels of performance by combining the best qualities of wood and plastic. Award Winning Recycling Technology - UPM ProFi Deck is the first industrial scale solution for waste off-cuts & trimmings from self-adhesive labels - The innovative process utilises the cellulose fibres and plastic polymers contained in the waste to produce a highly durable material for exterior end uses. - Currently nearly all this waste is land filled or incinerated. Every 10 lorries of UPM ProFi Deck produced means 6 fewer lorries of waste landfill or incineration. - UPM ProFi material is fully recyclable. UPM ProFi Deck ®

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UPM PROFI DECK – ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE ® Low Carbon Foot Print - Every 1 kg of label waste recycled into UPM ProFi Deck instead of being incinerated prevents the release of approximately 1.84 kg CO2 into the atmosphere.* - Each 1 m2 of UPM ProFi Deck Boards contains 10 kg of label waste which would have released 18.4 kg CO2. - The CO2 which would normally be released into the atmosphere is contained within UPM ProFi Deck for the lifetime of the product, typically a minimum of ten years. - Assuming the product is not further recycled, the carbon footprint from the manufacturing of UPM...

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