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 explained that correctly formulated PVC products can be recycled many times over as the method required doesn’t measurably damage the chain length of the molecules: “The process can prove extremely successful and can enable pre-used products to be repurposed several times.”
Since 2010, Swish has been enhancing its PVC End of Life Recovery System and has worked towards its sustainable goal using the guidelines proposed by the VinylPlus scheme.
With companies such as Swish, the VinylPlus scheme recycled 740,000 tonnes of PVC materials in 2018.
Swish achieves its material repurpose process by granulating and pulverising pre-used items to be melted and reformed. Typically, the company recycles its post-consumer PVC windows to create rainwater products, including gutters and downpipes.
