How To Recycle Vinyl Siding

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How to recycle vinyl siding. Since polyvinyl chloride pvc is a thermoplastic material it is pretty straightforward to recycle. Efficiently collecting enough waste material and. If you are a vinyl recycler in north america and would like to be added to the list please contact rich krock. 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.

The vinyl industry would like to see more products diverted from the landfill and into recycling streams. We make it easy for our contractors to keep old vinyl siding out of landfills by giving them access to vinyl recycling bins. Sign up for eletters today and get the latest how to from fine homebuilding plus special offers. Pvc can be melted and formed into a variety of new materials.

Email thisblogthis share to twittershare to facebookshare to pinterest. 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 industry is addressing in its industry wide sustainability initiative know as vantage vinyl. 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 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. 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. 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. Remove all your old siding and separate it from other products such as any foam rubber or nails that may be attached.

Even begging the installer probably won t do much good. 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. Plastic scrap can be valuable. You may want to inquire at your local landfill or dump area for vinyl recycling.

Locate a vinyl recycling facility in your area. It has a recycling directory that s searchable by state. Associate editor chris ermides replies. 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. It is simply ground up and re melted and formed or extruded into new products. How can i recycle old vinyl siding. Scrap prices vinyl siding can be found on the scrap post.

The vinyl institute is interested in learning about uses and products that come from recycled vinyl.