There are a lot of examples to support that these windows can be properly recycled with no adverse effects to the environment. These are done on voluntary basis and under industry schemes. Let's Take a look:
1) Deceuninck u-PVC Windows and Doors:
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| Deceynick Recycling Factory: Diksmuide, Belgium |
At the end of 2012 Deceuninck opened its new recycling factory in Diksmuide in Belgium, adjacent to the existing 105,000 tonne/year PVC compounding facility. The €3 million investment includes recycling equipment for both post-industrial and post-consumer rigid PVC. The 20,000 tonnes capacity makes Deceuninck Recycling in Diksmuide into the largest of its kind for rigid PVC recycling in the Benelux countries.
Deceuninck transforms 100% of the material recycled into new window systems and building products. 50 years ago Deceuninck started designing 100% recyclable products. Today it sees its own the lifecycle loop as being closed.
2) Recovinyl Foundation:
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| Recovinyl's Recycling plan. |
Recovinyl is an initiative of the European PVC industry. The organisation was created in 2003 as part of the original Vinyl 2010 Voluntary Commitment to advance the sustainable development of the PVC industry by improving production processes, minimise emissions, develop recycling technology and boost the collection and recycling of waste.
More than one million PVC-U post-consumer window frames are now being recycled in the UK every year through Recovinyl, the PVC industry’s recycling scheme and one of the VinylPlus initiatives. Latest audited figures show that end-of-life windows and profiles comprised 25,480 tonnes (52%) of the total 48,544 tonnes of waste PVC recycled in 2011. Other materials collected and recycled through the Recovinyl programme included pipes and fittings, cables, flexible PVC and rigid PVC films.
Its target: to stimulate and certify the use of 700,000 tonnes of recycled PVC by 2020 as one of the challenges set in the VinylPlus Voluntary Commitment.