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Health, Safety & Environment - The Hub Of the Matter
The GGF has launched a new online Health, Safety and Environment Hub that will house all the health, safety and environment services and products the...
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GGF, FENSA And BFRC Launch Recycling Scheme
The GGF, together with FENSA and BFRC, has partnered with Middlesbrough based window and door recycling specialist, CNC Recycling, to launch a new PVC-U recycling scheme for installers and manufacturers.
The new scheme will initially be rolled out across Scotland, Wales and the North and Midlands, with plans to expand throughout the UK as demand increases.
GGF Members, together with FENSA and BFRC approved installers and manufacturers, can book to have de-glazed old frames and off-cuts collected from site free of charge and taken away to be recycled.
“This partnership with CNC will encourage the UK PVC-U framing industry to improve an already successful record in the recycling of old frames to begin life as new products, ideally window and door frames."
-John Agnew
Managing Director, Glass & Glazing Federation
Leadership
Agnew said it was important that the GGF shows leadership in this key environmental initiative. He added: It is enormously important that the industry is seen to be treating end of life PVC-U frames in such a positive way and appropriate therefore that the industry’s primary representative organisation, the GGF, has launched this scheme.”
Save on skip hire
FENSA Head of Membership, Chris Beedel, said: “As a society, we are all becoming increasingly concerned by the impact of plastic waste on the environment, so diverting window and door frames from landfill with this scheme will not only save installers the significant cost of skip hire but it will also be an attractive proposition for environmentally conscious consumers. It will certainly be of huge benefit to the installers and manufacturers who participate.”
Free
BFRC Operations Director, Lis Clarke, said “Offering a free service to our clients that helps both their business and the environment is a win, win scenario for the industry. BFRC are thrilled to be a part of such an important initiative that benefits the entire sector and we look forward to seeing the results.”
Certified
In addition, scheme participants will receive a certificate at the end of the year, recording the amount of waste material they have recycled via the initiative. The vast majority of materials recycled will remain in the industry to create new fenestration products. Once collected, the end-of-life PVC-U windows, door frames and virgin off-cuts are re-processed to produce a recycled pellet, from which new PVC-U products may be directly manufactured or combined with virgin material to make new, bar-length PVC-U profiles for example. Thus the 'circular economy' is completed whilst diverting old frames from landfill and significantly increasing the sustainability of the PVC-U fenestration industry.
Picture: One of CNC Recycling's lorries.
Article written by Cathryn Ellis
17th June 2021