Esslingen-based waste disposal company Scherrieble collects old plastic windows for recycling
Anyone in the Esslingen area who wants to be sure that their old PVC windows, roller shutters or doors are recycled in an ecologically sound way has come to the right address at the disposal company Scherrieble. Last year, the company was able to collect a total of 1,316 tonnes and send them for material recycling. The company does not only focus on the disposal of large construction sites, as Anette [...]
VinylPlus: 639,648 tonnes of recycled PVC registered in 2017
At last week's VinylPlus® Sustainability Forum in Madrid, VinylPlus Managing Director Brigitte Dero announced the latest progress in the European PVC industry's sustainability programme. According to the report, a total of 639,648 tonnes of recycled PVC were registered in 2017, almost 80 per cent of the 2020 target of 800,000 tonnes. The latest progress report can be found at: [...]
Urban mining: 600 old PVC windows removed and recycled
In Würzburg, ten flat blocks with 144 flats and a floor area of around 15,000 square metres are currently being demolished. The buildings were erected between 1950 and 1956 and no longer met today's requirements for environmental protection and living ambience. A municipal housing company therefore decided to demolish and rebuild residential properties according to modern standards. As part of the measures [...]
PVC Recycling Campaign at the 24th Demolition Conference
The 24th Demolition Conference will take place in Berlin from 2 to 3 March 2018. This year, Aktion PVC-Recycling will again be represented with a joint stand. In addition to the AGPU, other partners are participating in the initiative, including Rewindo, the AgPR and Roofcollect. This year, the German Demolition Association as organiser expects [...]
Window replacement at Troisdorf Industrial Park - Old windows provide new raw material
Building 56 in the Troisdorf Industrial Park, also known as the "House of Technology", was the control centre of HT Troplast AG for many years. Today, the building houses the administration of profine GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of plastic window profiles. To make the building fit for the future, the more than 200 old windows are currently being replaced [...]
European recycling strategy presented
The EU Commission recently presented the first European recycling strategy. According to the strategy, all plastic packaging on the EU market is to be recyclable from 2030, and the consumption of single-use plastics is to be reduced and the use of microplastics limited. Numerous industry associations have already reacted positively and see the plans now presented as being in line with their own voluntary commitments. In statements [...]
Industry associations call for more design for recycling
The recycling requirements of the new Packaging Act are a challenge for the industries involved that can only be overcome by working together. This was the conclusion reached by the approximately 180 participants at the conference "Recycling and Recyclability of Packaging", which took place last week in Berlin and was organised by the associations Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verpackung + Umwelt e.V. (AGVU), Bundesverband Sekundärrohstoffe and [...]
"Best Practice" enters the final stage in spring
After running for almost 1.5 years, the campaign "Best Practice for the Environment" will enter the home stretch next spring. Its primary purpose is to identify exemplary building projects, especially in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, in which discarded PVC building products such as windows or floor coverings are recycled and reused. The initiators - PVC Working Group and [...]
Successful series of events: PVC recyclers meet PVC processors
Last week, the third and last regional meeting of the series of events "PVC recyclers meet PVC processors" took place this year in Erlangen at REHAU. AGPU and VinylPlus launched the network meetings in 2012, thereby further advancing PVC recycling in Germany. The meeting in Erlangen was now the tenth event and also enjoyed [...]
Old plastic windows are to be revived
In the old town of Koblenz, a multi-storey, architecturally outstanding residential and commercial building from the pre-war period with 27 flats, a penthouse and office space is currently undergoing energy renovation. With the special feature: the old 89 PVC windows and additional 24 balcony elements will not be disposed of in the waste incineration plant after removal and replacement with new energy-saving plastic windows, as is still too often the case, [...]