VinylPlus recyclers top 800k tonnes in 2021
Some 810,775 tonnes of PVC waste were recycled and used in new products within the VinylPlus framework in 2021, bringing the total to nearly 7.3million tonnes since the year 2000, the organisation has announced.
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CMS celebrates three years zero landfill
Lanarkshire-based fabricator/installer CMS Group has achieved a third successive year with zero production or post-consumer waste going to landfill.
In its 2019-2020 financial year, CMS handled 2,802 tonnes of waste, mainly from post-use windows and...
GGF and Fensa roll out wider with cullet scheme
Installers throughout much of England’s North West and Midlands will now be able to make use of the GGF and Fensa’s recently-launched free glass recycling scheme via a new North West operational hub launched...
Glazerite and Veka sign for circular economy plan
Veka Recycling and Glazerite UK Group have signed an agreement for all the fabricator’s virgin offcut material and some post-consumer frames to be collected and recycled as part of a ‘perfect model’ of a...
VinylPlus sees over 813k tonnes recycled in ‘22
Some 813,266 tonnes of PVC waste were recycled within the VinylPlus framework in 2022, representing around 27% of the total PVC waste generated during the year, the organisation has announced.
Delegates from the member countries...
Second recycling line at Veka Compounds
Veka Recycling has installed a second extrusion line for its Veka Compounds division to turn more reclaimed PVC-U into pellets.
The investment, which totals more than £500,000, gives the company two Krauss Maffei compounding lines...
Veka Recycling plant ‘officially’ opened – at last
Veka Group CEO Andreas Hartleif has officially opened The new Veka Recycling plant – some 15 months after the £15million facility went live, when ever-changing Covid restrictions allowed the global head of the group...
McLaren and Saint-Gobain target 644-home refurb with glass recycling plan
McLaren Construction is working with Saint-Gobain to recycle the glass from nearly 3,500 windows in four tower blocks in a closed-loop recycling initiative that it says is the first of its kind at this...
Rehau kicks off Recycling Week with awareness survey launch
Window businesses throughout the supply chain are being urged to join in a survey to ‘gain insights to enable change’ in perceptions of window recycling.
Rehau, which launched the survey to mark Recycling Week says...
GGF adds ali to free recycling scheme
The Glass and Glazing Federation has joined with the Council for Aluminium in Building to add aluminium to its nationwide free recycling scheme.
It now means Fensa, BFRC and GGF, members anywhere England, Scotland and...
