The PVC industry initiative to ensure sustainability through recycling has revamped its website to get visitors more involved.
www.vinyloop.com now gives easy-to-use access to information and resources concerning the environmental performance of VinyLoop®. A brand new section looks at the advantages of the system and how it can benefit its customers.
“Just knowing your footprint isn’t enough, so we took the website one step further, with Eco-Consulting services,’’ says Christian Thamm of VinyLoop. “VinyLoop® customers will know what their environmental footprint may be and will be able to communicate the results to their own customers down the value-chain.’’
A recent Eco-Footprint certifies that using VinyLoop®, if compared to virgin PVC, reduces the water footprint by up to 72%, the energy footprint by half and the global warming potential by 39%.
VinyLoop recycles difficult composite waste and saves valuable resources. The study is a gate-to-gate analysis within the framework of the ISO standards for Life Cycle Assessment.
Based on the study, a new tool has been developed in house to calculate the footprint of garden hoses, membranes and shoe soles.
‘’Here’s one example: garden hoses whose inner layer is made with VinyLoop recycled material will save 25% of greenhouse gases emissions, 30% of water consumption and 40% of energy consumption,’’ says Mr Thamm.
VinyLoop®’s recycling process has steadily improved over the last 10 years, providing a solution to recycling different kinds of PVC.
Another feather in VinyLoop’s hat: the recovered PVC produced by its plant in Ferrara, Italy, has received validation from EU chemical regulators. It’s been officially REACH audited and the Italian organization Certiquality states that VinyLoop® is fully REACH- and CLP-compliant.
