{"id":739,"date":"2022-05-20T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aktion-pvc-recycling.de\/?p=739"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:32:00","slug":"vinylplus-pharmpack-projekt-gestartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/vinylplus-pharmpack-projekt-gestartet\/","title":{"rendered":"VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> PharmPack project launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expand the circular economy for PVC pharmaceutical blister packs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup>the European PVC industry's sustainability programme, today announces the launch of VinylPlus\u00ae <\/sup>PharmPack. The joint project with PVC film manufacturers and recyclers has set itself the goal of further expanding the recycling of PVC pharmaceutical blister packaging along the value chain, from the production of pharmaceutical films to the packaging of medicines and the collection and recycling of used packaging. VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> PharmPack works closely with other established recycling projects in the healthcare sector. These include VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> Med, which organises the recycling of used disposable PVC medical products in selected hospitals, thereby reducing the operating costs of these healthcare facilities while at the same time increasing their sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern PVC products have been used in the healthcare sector for many years and have become indispensable due to their outstanding and customisable product properties. At around 30 per cent, PVC is the most frequently used plastic in this sensitive area of application. Medication blister packs attract less attention in this segment. These are usually made of PVC composite films with aluminium foils, offer a high degree of safety and reliably protect the contents from environmental influences thanks to their excellent barrier properties. They also allow tablets to be removed individually and thus ensure, among other things, the shelf life of the remaining medication in the packaging. Here too, PVC is the first choice and market leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collection and recycling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the production of pharmaceutical blister packs, waste such as punching grids and discarded empty packaging is collected and recycled by a recycling partner. Both the PVC recyclate and the aluminium are then fed back into the material cycle and used to manufacture new products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> In addition to the established recycling of pre-consumer waste, the PharmPack project will now also include post-consumer waste via specific projects. Once the PVC pharmaceutical blister packs have been utilised, the secondary raw materials are returned to the respective material cycles through recycling. This makes a further important contribution to the circular economy and sustainable development within this value chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other recycling technologies are also being investigated as part of the project in order to assess further options for recovering the raw materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sustainable development and circular economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> PharmPack is another project in the European PVC industry's sustainability programme. For over 20 years, the industry has been making a difference through VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> steady progress in product stewardship, research into innovative technologies and improving the environmental footprint of PVC. Progress in recycling has been achieved primarily through the establishment of collection and recovery systems that did not previously exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2000, the European PVC industry has processed more than 6.5 million tonnes of recycled PVC into new products, saving around 13 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. Since then, the industry has invested around 110 million euros in sustainable development, including recycling activities, and created many jobs in this area. By 2025, VinylPlus aims to\u00ae<\/sup> recycle 900,000 tonnes of PVC per year and one million tonnes of PVC per year by 2030, in line with the goals of the Circular Plastics Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partner of VinylPlus\u00ae<\/sup> PharmPack projects are the pharmaceutical film manufacturers Liveo Research (B\u00f6tzingen) and Perlen Packaging (M\u00fcllheim (DE) & Perlen (CH)). Recycling partners are the companies Neidhardt Rohstoff (Memmingen) and Hundhausen Kunststofftechnik (Achim). The project is coordinated by VinylPlus Deutschland (Bonn). This initiative makes an important contribution to sustainability within the value chain and also conserves valuable resources - in line with the \"Circular Economy Action Plan\" adopted by the EU Commission as part of the Green Deal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kreislaufwirtschaft f\u00fcr Pharma-Blister aus PVC ausbauen. VinylPlus\u00ae, das Nachhaltigkeitsprogramm der europ\u00e4ischen PVC-Branche, gibt heute den Start von VinylPlus\u00ae PharmPack bekannt. Das Gemeinschaftsprojekt mit PVCFolienherstellern und Recyclern hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, das Recycling von PVC-Pharma-Blisterverpackungen entlang der Wertsch\u00f6pfungskette von der Herstellung der Pharma-Folien \u00fcber die Verpackung der Medikamente bis zur Sammlung und Verwertung gebrauchter Verpackungen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[180,4],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pharmpack","tag-vinylplus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}