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News: Brussels, November 2011
Surviving all those years and many ‘ups and downs’, Recovinyl as a project, reached the end of 2011. To your knowledge, originally, Recovinyl’s project (a voluntary initiative of Vinyl 2010) was supposed to be finalised by the end of 2010. Afterwards, we were really glad to announce that we will extend our activities towards 2011. There we are now.
We registered 186kt of recycled PVC waste in 2009, 255kt in 2010 and we expect to close this year with quite similar tonnage. By working our ideas further we expect by the end of 2011 to reach the level of 255.000t of recycled PVC waste. The 1st quarter of this year was really good versus comparable quarter of 2010 (65kt versus 57kt). In the 2nd quarter we have noticed a slight slowdown in volume input, but the period seems to be anyway higher in registered volume (71kt) than the same quarter of 2010 (68kt). The 3rd quarter of 2011 is not yet closed but we expect similar volume level of 2010.
Incentives to collect and recycle
Recovinyl provides financial incentives to support the collection of PVC waste from the construction and demolition sectors.
Its goal is to maintain a steady supply of post-construction PVC waste for recycling in Europe.
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News: Brussels, October 2011
Dear recyclers,
Since the REACH legislation came into force more and more controls in the field have been noticed. The national authorities have started the controls regarding the correct application of REACH in various industries. Especially lately, we hear about increasing number of controls performed within companies incorporated in our network (so far mainly plastic converters).
For that reason, we believe that the recyclers will be the next ones in the line. It would be a natural step, particularly for those ones manufacturing end-products containing problematic substances (e.g. mainly PVC recyclers).This type of recyclers should have in their possession the SDS (Safety Data Sheet) provided for the REACH requirements as supplied by the SDS-R Tool (available at http://www.reachclub.eu ).
Therefore, in order to increase awareness amongst recyclers and help them in fulfilling requirements for the sales of recyclates (conforming to REACH), we would like to organise joined workshops on REACH. Separate events could be performed in the biggest countries (the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, France and Italy) in their respective language.
Soon you will be informed about details regarding the planned workshop on REACH. Hoping for your interest and significant participation,
Yours sincerely,
Recovinyl’s Management