VinylPlus, the voluntary commitment to sustainable development of the European PVC industry, has announced that 639,648 tonnes of PVC was recycled within its framework last year. The 2017 results were presented at the sixth VinylPlus Sustainability Forum 2018 in Madrid, Spain where the industry shared its latest sustainability achievements.
This year’s forum, held on 16-17 May took the theme of ‘Meeting Societal Needs’ and explored how the vinyl sector and its products can help to meet the wide-ranging challenges of providing essential services for a growing global population in areas such as healthcare, housing and related infrastructure.
The forum reportedly attracted more than 140 stakeholders from 30 countries representing the European Commission, European Parliament, the United Nations, consumer organisations, academia, specifiers, designers, architects, recyclers and the PVC value chain.
VinylPlus chairman, Josef Ertl, said: “VinylPlus is special because it is the successful voluntary commitment of the entire PVC value chain, including resin manufacturers, additive producers and PVC converters, co-operating with the recyclers. All are working together towards a sustainable society with PVC. With VinylPlus, the European PVC industry has set clear and ambitious goals and we are well on our way to achieving them.”
