PVC-U Recycling Plastic Building Materials Reduces CO2 Emissions

According to recent statistics from Axion Recycling, the use of recycled PVC-U materials for building products has a 6% impact on global warming using pure materials - this will have significant environmental protection and save raw material costs, and promote recycling The material can be re-applied to other fields such as PVC-U windows and doors related products.

Axion's conclusion on the effect of collecting and recycling waste PVC materials on global warming was the use of DEFRA's data on carbon dioxide emissions and energy data consumed using a standard UK PVC cycle plant.

Collecting and mechanizing recycling of one ton of waste PVC will generate approximately 120 kilograms of carbon dioxide. These recycled materials can be used directly in new products instead of raw materials. The latest environmental data from Plastics Europe shows that the use of raw materials (salts and oil) to produce one ton of pure PVC material will produce 1900 kg of carbon dioxide. In this way, the use of recycled materials will save 94% of the CO2 emissions compared to using pure materials.

Most recycled PVC can be reused as clean debris to replace the original material, so it will cost less to mix. Relative to pure raw materials, this will reduce the effect of carbon in recycled materials.

In the United Kingdom in 2007, 40,000 tons of scrap PVC were recycled through Recovinyl, which would save more than 71,000 tons of CO2 emissions, as these recycled products have been directly replaced by raw material manufacturing products.

Roger said that even pure PVC materials have better carbon testing data than other polymers. “The impact of carbon on the production of new PVC-U materials is lower than that of other types of polymers because it is made of salt and oil as part of its production. Another advantage is that PVC is a long-lived material that can be recycled and recycled. Times without compromising performance makes it particularly suitable for the manufacture of building materials such as door and window frames, car dashboards and ceilings."