Recycling

Swish Building Products has implemented ‘End of Life Recovery Systems’ for all its PVC products with the aim of reducing landfill and ensuring an increasingly sustainable future for the industry. Process improvement manager Alan Tunnicliffe...

Veka Recycling has invested £150k in six new silos to increase storage capacity at its Wellingborough recycling plant. The extra space created by the two 20m3 and four 10m3 silos will increase efficiency by reducing the manual...

Rehau saved 97,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere last year by using 54% PVC-U recyclate in its products and now aims to grow the proportion to 65% by 2025, according to the...

More than 100 large building projects in ten countries across two continents have helped Technal to save 25,000 tonnes of CO2 by the use of Circal recycled aluminium products since it became part of...

More than 180 participants from 24 countries came together online for the VinylPlus Sustainability Forum (VSF) #Circularvinyl this week to showcase the united PVC industry’s achievements and plans to build the new sustainability programme...

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...

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...

Uni-Blinds integral blind manufacturer Morley Glass is celebrating saving over 1,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass from landfill in the two years since it launched its recycling scheme, as well as raising over £60,000 for...