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News Release from: Tarkett Marley Floors | Subject: Vinyl floor recycling scheme
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2006
Pioneering vinyl floor recycling scheme
launched
Pioneering recycling scheme for vinyl flooring has been launched in the UK by Recovinyl and Tarkett-Marley Floors.
A pioneering recycling scheme for vinyl flooring has been launched in the UK by Recovinyl and Tarkett-Marley Floors , the UK operation of Tarkett - the world's largest manufacturer of resilient floor coverings The pilot scheme, supported by Recovinyl, encourages greater collection of post-installation flexible PVC flooring
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 28 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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For large contracts, participating installation companies are supplied with cages to store the offcuts of vinyl flooring.
This material is then taken to Tarkett's Recovinyl-accredited PVC recycling plant in Clervaux, Luxembourg where it is reprocessed and re-used to produce a calendered backing for either new vinyl flooring or contract-grade PVC-backed carpet.
Believed to be the first of its type in the UK, the scheme will, if it proves successful, be expanded nationwide to all installers of Tarkett-Marley Floors products.
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Recovinyl facilitates the collection, dispatching and recycling of mixed PVC post-consumer waste, mainly from the building and construction sectors.
Recovinyl has already achieved excellent results in the PVC window sector, having recycled more than 13,000 tonnes of post-use frames since its 2005 launch.
Pete Thomas, Tarkett-Marley Floors Environment and Quality Manager, says the flooring scheme has the potential to divert tonnes of valuable and recyclable material from landfill and is a classic market-leading example of ?closed loop? recycling.
'Instead of being uselessly and expensively buried in the ground, this very recyclable material can be turned back into new products, thus saving the environment as well as valuable raw materials.
As we are already working with major retailers, construction companies and PFI initiatives, such as hospitals, we know there are significant quantities of material available for recycling'.
Tarkett-Marley is a founder member of EPFLOOR, (the European PVC Flooring Producers), part of the Vinyl 2010 PVC European Sustainability Programme, which has committed to increase each year the quantity of the collectable available waste from PVC flooring that can be recycled.
At the forefront of vinyl floor waste recycling, Tarkett currently recycles much of its own post-industrial flooring waste through its central plant in Luxembourg, which is capable of processing 120 tonnes a day.
In excess of 30,000 tonnes of post-industrial flooring waste is processed each year throughout the Europe-wide Group.
Welcoming the scheme, Roger Morton of Axion Recycling, Recovinyl project managers and technical advisors in the UK, says: 'We are excited about Tarkett?s initiative as this type of flooring recycling is a particular focus for us.
They have set a great example with this creative project'.
Recovinyl has 133 waste collectors and 24 accredited recycling companies nationwide.
It also covers ancillary PVC products from roofline products, cladding, shutters and blinds to pipes and conduit, so companies undertaking complete refurbishment projects can recycle virtually all PVC-U waste removed from properties - cutting their disposal costs even further.
Recovinyl is funded by the PVC industry body Vinyl 2010 formed to demonstrate commitment to sustainable development.
It is backed by the British Plastics Federation and supported by the Waste and Resources Action Programme.
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