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(PlastEurope) -- PVC recycling in
the UK is continuing to increase, with more than 50,000 tonnes of material
expected to be recycled by the end of 2011, according to Recovinyl (Brussels /
Belgium), the PVC industry’s recycling initiative. Jane Gardner, of Axion
Consulting (Bramhall, Stockport), Recovinyl’s UK agent, said the PVC industry’s
recycling initiative is expected to exceed the 49,343 t of post-consumer PVC
recycled last year in the UK through its 26 specialist recyclers.
Speaking at a recent recycling seminar organised by the British Plastics
Federation, Gardner said that Recovinyl is now positioned strongly to build on
its “Vinyl 2010” achievements and co-ordinate delivery of fresh targets up to
2020 under the new “Vinyl Plus” voluntary commitment.
Recovinyl has gone above and beyond its original recycling targets. These
targets include 800,000 t to be re-used in all European countries by 2020 - with
700,000 t mechanically recycled and the remainder through new technologies for
more difficult-to-recycle or contaminated PVC. “
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