About DGB E.C.O
Our industry, as with all other industries, sectors and societies all over the world are having to come to terms with climate change. Our production, consumption and transportation of all goods and services are impacting the health of the planet and all that live on it. Fenestration has its part to play along with all others. But where there is challenge, there is opportunity. With DGB E.C.O I want to shine a light on the efforts being made across the sector to be more sustainable and planet-friendly. I also want to demonstrate that in recycling and post-consumer waste, there is a whole new industry being born out of our already long established one.
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CNC Recycling Strengthens Sales Team
This is a press release from CNC Recycling: UPVC Window Recycling specialist CNC Recycling has appointed a highly experienced Business Development Manager [...]
UK Homeowners Prepared To Pay More For Products Seen As More Sustainable
This is a sponsored article by Deceuninck UK: More than two-thirds of UK homeowners (68%) would choose windows and doors with a [...]
Less Is More – Our Future
The arrival of vacuum insulated glazing, or VIG, has got me to thinking about our industry in a much wider sense. The [...]
Everything UK Fenestration Does Has To Be Seen Through The Prism Of Climate Change
We live in a post-COP26 and net-zero world now. We can debate the merits of the deal that was struck at the [...]
Three COP26 Pledges UK Fenestration Could Make
COP26 is finally upon us. The most important UN Climate Conference and the moment we are told that we are out of [...]
Morley Glass Triples Post-Consumer Glass Recycling Capacity
This is a sponsored article by Morley Glass: The UK’s largest manufacturer of Screenline integral blinds will be recycling more post-consumer glass [...]
This Is How Much You Actually Save By Recycling Glass
Recycling is going to play a massive part in the fenestration sector's efforts to reach net zero. PVCu recycling has continued to [...]
CNC Recycling Gains NFA Nomination For Recycling Company 2021
CNC Recycling Ltd has been nominated for Recycling Company in the National Fenestration Awards (NFAs). The CNC Recycling team are delighted and [...]
C L O S E D L O O P M A N U F A C T U R I N G
Learn more about closed loop manufacturing, how it can benefit society and find out more about PVCu recycling
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D I D Y O U K N O W ?
As the industry begins to understand it’s environmental responsibilities, Eurocell went to the public to ask if they knew if PVCu could be recycled.
Credit: Eurocell
T H E P R O C E S S
Find out more about how PVCu is actually recycled and the processes involved to help create new profile.
Credit: Eurocell
O U T O F T H E O C E A N S
This is how the closed-loop recycling process keeps plastic and other post-consumer waste out of the oceans.
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T H E T R U T H A B O U T P V C U
PVCu
Poly Vinyl Chloride-UnplasticizedThe facts...
PVCu is NOT plastic! Thats what the u (unplasticized) in PVCu stands for. 43% of of the material is Ethylene, which is a bi-product of oil, and represents 0.3% of annual oil consumption. 57% of chloride in Polyvinyl chloride comes indirectly from salt.
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Lifespan of centuries
Material that lasts350 years
PVCu can be recycled up to ten times during the lifespan of the material. Assuming an average generational lifespan of 35 years for PVCu windows and doors, it means the same PVCu can be in active circulation for 350 years, keeping it out of landfill sites for centuries!
Strength
Recycling makes it strongerStronger each time
Dispelling the myth that recycled PVCu isn’t as good as virgin, it has been confirmed in scientific studies that PVCu polymers actually become stronger each time they are recycled. You can find out more about this below.
Safe
Myths dispelledPVCu is safe
PVCu for an unreasonably long amount of time was portrayed in some parts as being dangerous, and as being a material that could contribute to the development of house fires. This has rightly been quashed, and PVCu remains one of the safest, strongest building materials for homes to date.
Sustainability is now the industry’s biggest issue to tackle. More so now than even the skills crisis. The pace of societal change is immense. Every industry on earth is having to very quickly adapt to demonstrate to the general public that it can be more sustainable and friendlier to planet Earth. Our industry is no exception. Across the entire fenestration sector we have to undergo rapid, root and branch evolution if we are to show to the outside world we can be better, and that we can help contribute to the wider global effort of trying to save our planet. Failure to do so, and the consequences will only be catastrophic.
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