Plastic scrap can be valuable.
How to recycle vinyl siding.
The vinyl institute is interested in learning about uses and products that come from recycled vinyl.
Efficiently collecting enough waste material and.
Scrap prices vinyl siding can be found on the scrap post.
Vinyl industry is addressing in its industry wide sustainability initiative know as vantage vinyl.
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In our facilities materials that are manufactured out of spec do not get scrapped.
We make it easy for our contractors to keep old vinyl siding out of landfills by giving them access to vinyl recycling bins.
There are over 100 vinyl recyclers in the u s.
We invite contractors who have purchased new siding from us to toss the old vinyl siding into the bins provided by local pvc recycling plants.
Vinyl siding scrap is a plastic scrap that is growing in recycling vinyl siding is made from polyvinyl chloride or pvc a thermoplastic that can be ground up repeatedly.
Several times a week the bins are emptied by the very recycling plant that processes and re forms that material into new vinyl and pvc products.
Having said that pvc faces the same major recycling obstacles as many other materials.
Landfill diversion is one of the impact categories the u s.
How can i recycle old vinyl siding.
Locate a vinyl recycling facility in your area.
It has a recycling directory that s searchable by state.
The vinyl cut offs were baled and when a 40 000 pound load was accumulated a plastics broker would negotiate a price for the tractor trailer load.
Associate editor chris ermides replies.
Even begging the installer probably won t do much good.
If you are a construction company a project manager or are a resident replacing the siding on your house or shed please recycle your scrap vinyl material at your local recycling plant.
They are put into our re grind.
It is simply ground up and re melted and formed or extruded into new products.
Remove all your old siding and separate it from other products such as any foam rubber or nails that may be attached.
In this process you chop up the vinyl siding into pellet form and that material is put into the back ply of a future product essentially all vinyl siding consists of back ply and top cap co extrusion.
If you are a vinyl recycler in north america and would like to be added to the list please contact rich krock.
The vinyl industry would like to see more products diverted from the landfill and into recycling streams.
At this point the only way to get your waste vinyl siding to a recycler is to either go with an installer who advertises recycling as a part of the normal process or to haul the stuff to the recycler yourself.
Since polyvinyl chloride pvc is a thermoplastic material it is pretty straightforward to recycle.
