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July 13 2010

Office Move / change of address

Recovinyl's office will move on the 30th July 2010 to
Av. de Cortenbergh 71
in 1000 Brussels, Belgium

March 30 2010

Newsletter 03/2010

Dear recyclers,

We are pleased to inform all the participants of the Recovinyl’s programme that it has been decided to offer the continuity of our initiative.
As you know 2010 is the last year of the Vinyl 2010 voluntary programme. It does not mean that it will be the end of the Recovinyl’s concept.

The PVC manufacturing industry is already embarking on a Vinyl 2020 programme, building up on the achievements of Vinyl 2010. A new ten year programme is in front of us , in order to make additional progress toward recycling and sustainability.

The PVC manufacturing industry, in co-operation with EuPR, are presently focusing on the preparation of the content of the future and new 10-year programme. Recovinyl is and will be one of the core elements of the future commitment. The structure of Recovinyl project will probably be adapted in the nearest future but in 2011 we definitely foresee continuity of the same system as it operates nowadays. It means, for all recyclers participating in our program, that from operational side nothing will basically change in the Recovinyl’s approach in 2011.

However, we should remember that we are close to the final deadline for Vinyl 2010. We need to prove to the European Commission and all stakeholders that our promises will be kept. We should now focus all our efforts to reach the level of our committed target - 200.000 t of post-consumer PVC waste, registered and recycled by the end of 2010 (on top of what was already recycled in 2000). Despite going through the difficult period of the economic crisis, we managed to survive successfully, proving that the efforts in recycling count. We cannot give up now because of the difficult times. We must do our utmost best to achieve the promised target of 200.000t of recycled PVC waste in 2010.

If you would see any new opportunities or you would feel that any extra attention is required to reach the committed volume, please feel free to contact us at any time.

Improvement of the sustainability of the PVC chain is one of our major challenges for the nearest future. We would like to assure you that Recovinyl will make all efforts to maintain its present relationships. The continuity of Recovinyl’s project in 2011 opens the whole range of possibilities for the future in supporting the ecological approach of PVC waste recycling.

We would like to thank you all for your contribution and efforts to maintain good co-operation during the last 10 years. We are looking forward to successfully collaborating in the future and to achieve together the targets for 2020,

Yours sincerely,

Hans Telgen
President

Eric Criel
General Manager

December 15 2009

Newsletter December 2009

We are on the turn again – closing the year 2009. We went through the most difficult period of economic crisis and we survived. It has been unfavourable time for both – the industry and for PVC recycling as well. However, we dare to say that we succeeded in reaching our goals. But the success it’s more than just good will. It is your performance and our mutual efforts to prove that we can fulfill our commitments. Thank you for your support and participation in Recovinyl’s concept.

Many of the recyclers went through a very difficult period. In extreme cases at the end of 2008 and during 2009 some of the smaller companies were forced, because of the market condition, to suspend their activities and send their workers home. In relation to the crisis on European markets we observe increasing export activity of mixed-rigid plastics towards the Far East. Various companies built up large stocks, as far as they were not able to sell their recycled material justified by extremely low pricing and not sufficient demand.

However, the recycling of PVC starts to enter into the new phase. We have noticed a slight improvement regarding recycled volume of PVC since October on. We can only hope that it is an indication that the worse is behind us already and the markets begin to stabilise.

Our volume target for 2010 will be 240 kt of collected and recycled post-consumer PVC.

We would like to ask all the recyclers already registered in Recovinyl’s system to do the maximum effort and register as high volume of post-consumer PVC waste as possible in 2010.

We also hope that we will be able to extend our existing recyclers’ network by adding new companies to our current recyclers ‘ database. Extending the catalogue of recyclers co-operating with us and supporting the Recovinyl’s concept would enable us to begin the new year of 2010 with prospects for positive expectancies for reaching established goals for 2010.

Having such a commitment in view, as well as approaching Christmas and New Year, we would like to wish all our partners all the best for the coming 2010, strength and determination to overcome the difficult crisis time and motivation for maintaining further the course of our co-operation.

Recovinyl’s management team

August 27 2009

Newsletter

Recovinyl’ s project entered the second half of 2009. Taking into consideration the financial and economical crisis on international markets we are glad to inform our partners the Recovinyl’s concept survived the difficult period.

We could feel however, that this year was much more challenging for our assignment than the previous years. There has been so far 76.000 t of PVC post-consumer waste registered in 2009. It is 5% less than within the corresponding period of 2008. The biggest impact of the crisis regarding PVC recycling have been noticed mainly in the UK and France. Our partners from UK registered YTD about 5.000 t less than last year. It has been caused mainly but the collapse of the construction market over there, which resulted in decreased level of post-consumer PVC window profiles. France diminished its registered YTD volume by 4.500 t compared to 8-month-period of 2008. On the other hand some other countries increased the registered volume: Belgium with 1.000t, the Netherlands 2100t and Italy with 1300t. We need to mention though here that from the total tonnage of 4.500 t decreased in France about 1000t has been sent and counted in Belgium and the Netherlands. Another large participant of our project – Germany- managed to stay on the same level compared to 2008.

Despite of the overwhelming crisis all the financial contributors of Recovinyl’s programme fully committed themselves to support the concept nowadays and in the future. It proves that our basic voluntary idea regarding PVC waste recycling remains valid even in complex and difficult times.

The input of recycled PVC volume was fluctuating mainly in first two quarters of 2009. While the rigid (mainly pipes and window profiles) PVC registration dropped down significantly in the first quarter (- 5.000 t), the flexible applications (mainly cables) stayed quite stable. The latter however, started slow down with registration in the second quarter of 2009.

Observing the international recycling market trends we would like to do extra effort to integrate more recyclers in countries where, in regards to our project, smaller recycling coverage is present. We intend to be at pains to add some new PVC recycling companies in countries like Spain, Czech, Portugal and Poland. Germany still seems to offer the largest potential regarding the new potential PVC volume to be registered still this year. Considering registration of waste coming from all new recyclers will bring to the system circa 30.000 t. This potential would mean closing the year with at least 175.000 t registered post-consumer PVC volume.

Recovinyl together with EuPR, in regard to the REACH requirements, will organise in November the REACH seminar. The seminar will be followed by a workshop and afterwards by a dinner where thoughts and business ideas can be exchanges and heard. We hope for a high attendance of the recyclers participating in Recovinyl’s programme.

Once aging we would like to thank all our partners for their effort in PVC data registration in this economically difficult period. We hope to continue our co-operation in future and see again as many of our professional partners as possible in November.

May 15 2009

Overview Activities 1st quarter 2009

The first quarter of 2009 is already behind us so we would like to provide our partners with a brief overview of development, issues and problems we have been facing from the beginning of this year.
As you know, 2008 was quite successful year regarding the Recovinyl’s project. Thanks to our recyclers’ participation and combined efforts, we managed to go through the difficult time of the financial crisis at the end of year.

Registration of waste in 2008 went quite smooth resulting in 12.365 lines of PVC supplies entered. Thanks to your co-operation we closed our year with 191kt registered tons of PVC waste.

Unfortunately, beginning of 2009 proved to be difficult time for PVC business as well. This sector of the market seems to follow the general economy trend all over the world. PVC market did not manage to escape the overwhelming economical recession.
By the financial crisis and the collapse of construction market in some countries, the overall demand for PVC products decreased significantly all over Europe. This slowed down the production activity as well. Lower manufacturing has been followed by decrease of collection and recycling activity.
We have noticed within the Recovinyl’s system a serious decrease of registered PVC waste volume. In some companies the daily operations run at the minimum rate. The situation is so grave that many, especially smaller recyclers, stopped their activity completely or temporarily suspended it partially or fully, sending their workers for momentarily leave.

In regard to PVC waste registration within our site, the first quarter of 2009, in comparison with the adequate period of 2008, did not give a positive impression about PVC market condition.

Quarter	Volume kt
1st quarter 2008	33.150
1st quarter 2009	27.600

Although the number regarding the tonnage has decreased only a little bit, the overall picture seems to be negative as far as there are many new recyclers, which joined our programme during 2008. If we would be able to keep the normal run rate as of 2008, we should be achieving in 1st quarter of 2009 much higher number (+/- 50.000t) in registered PVC waste volume.

We would like to urge all our recyclers to do the effort and enter all the acceptable tonnage available at their facilities into Recovinyl system. It helps us to manage better the incentive budget and monitor better the difficult phase of the project.

We would like to thank all our partners who continue to go with us through this difficult period – for their input and cooperation. We are glad that regardless the worries and daily business troubles we all face currently, we feel determined to continue.

We are still open to join our forces and start co-operation with new potential recyclers within Europe.

Hopefully, working together and supporting each other during this recession of 2009 we can still make progress and maintain our activity within the assigned level.

Yours faithfully,
Management of Recovinyl

February 06 2009

Wrong prepayment approval notification mails

Dear Recyclers,

When sending the prepayment announcements beginning this week we have noticed that the attached excel file including the details of your prepayment calculation has been empty. The problem has been caused by an error in the automated email notification system.

We would like to assure all our partners that no information has been lost and all recyclers will receive the final/correct prepayment e-mail (with correct excel sheet) after it has been reviewed by our administrators. This e-mail will contain the subject "Confirmed". All previous e-mails about Quarter4 of 2008 may be ignored.

In case of further doubts, please do not hesitate to ask your local agent for further information

Once more, we would like to apologise for the caused inconvenience.

Yours sincerely,

Management of Recovinyl

January 30 2009

Recovinyl - Overview Activities 2008

The first month of 2009 is already behind us and we would like to provide our partners with a brief overview of activities of the previous year.

2008 was a successful year for our project. Thanks to your participation and combined efforts we managed to go through the difficult time of the financial crisis at the end of year.

Registration of waste in 2008 went quite smooth resulting in 12.365 lines of PVC supplies entered. Thanks to your co-operation we closed our year with 191kt registered tons of PVC waste. The total volume has been financially settled by quarter and audited (in majority) at the end of the end of the year.

View PDF

December 22 2008

Merry Christmas!

Dear Recyclers,

Thanks to your participation in our voluntary concept this year we have reached already 175.000 tons of registered and recycled post-consumer PVC waste. We expect to reach the level of at least 185.000 ton at the end of 2008, which would mean exceeding the primary goal with 10.000 t .

We hope that with your further support and dedication we can continue with sustention of our project, having always environment as the key priority.

As the Christmas time approaches, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued partnership. It is business associates like you who make our jobs a pleasure and keep Recovinyl’s concept successful.

May your holiday season and the New Year be filled with much joy, happiness and success. We look forward to working with you in the coming year and hope our business relationship continues for many years to come.

Merry Christmas!

Yours faithfully,

Recovinyl's team

October 27 2008

Invitation to the PVC Working Group

Dear recyclers of Recovinyl’s system,

EuPR organises in the premises in Brussels its Annual Meeting . It will be held on the 20^th and 21^st November 2008.

During the Annual Meeting there are some Working Groups foreseen within the above mentioned dates. The PVC Working Group will take place on 20^th November between 14.00-17.00 o’clock. This event is an unique opportunity to extend your PVC recycling network and your knowledge of upcoming issues within the industry.

In the evening on 20^th November an official EuPR dinner will be organised for those who would wish to participate and discuss further the business matters on a non-formal ground. The dinner will be served at 20.00 in La Fattoria del Chianti Restaurant at Rue Froissart 19-21 in Brussels.

The detailed Annual Meeting agenda can be downloaded via this link, at the bottom of the page: http://www.plasticsrecyclers.eu/news . The same link can be used to download the registration form for participants of the PVC Working Group and the Dinner. Once downloaded and filled in, the registration form should be send back to Mrs Angela Janssen by e-mail (info@plasticsrecyclers.eu) or fax (+32 2 732 63 12)

Investigating the availabilities of accommodation we have received the following offers and took options in those hotels:

Holiday Inn, Place Schumann	135,- € / night, breakfast & taxes included
Martin"s Central Park	169,- € / night, breakfast & taxes included
Silken Berlaymont	185,- €/ night, breakfast & taxes included

We kindly ask you to make the reservations directly at the hotel (the reservation forms are available for downloading here) . We urge you to do this as soon as possible because some hotels are already fully booked.

Hoping to see as many participants as possible to discuss widely our business during the PVC Working Group,

Yours faithfully

Management of Recovinyl

Download registration form Holiday Inn
Download registration form Martin’s Central Park
Download registration form Silken Berlaymont

September 30 2008

REACH PRE-REGISTRATION SUBSTANCES DIRECTORY FOR PLASTIC RECYCLERS

The European Plastics Recyclers association (EuPR, www.plasticsrecyclers.eu) will release the REACh Pre-registration Substances Directory for Plastics Recyclers on the 1st October. This directory has been compiled by plastics experts from PlasticsEurope, EuPC and EuPR. REACH, the new EU chemicals regulation, requires that chemical substances on their own, in preparations and those which are intentionally released from articles have to be registered to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). The obligation to register applies from 1 June 2008. The chemicals currently on the EU market which meet the definition of phase-in substances should be pre-registered between 1st June and 1st December 2008.

This directory includes the monomers and additives (name, CAS & EINECS number) by resin:

ABS	PA 6	PFA
ECTFE	PA 610	PMMA
HDPE	PA 612	POM
HIPS	PA 66	PP
LDPE	PA 69	PS
LLDPE	PBT	TFE
PA 11	PC	PVC Plasticised
PA 12	PE	PVC Unplasticised
PA46	PET	PVDF

The substances list will be available from the 1st October on the EuPR extranet and will be free of charge for the EuPR Members (www.plasticsrecyclers.eu).

Directory fees:
• EuPR Members: free
• Members of Members: free
• EuPC Network: € 750 (+21% VAT)
• Recovinyl Members: € 300 (+21% VAT)
• Others: € 1.500 (+21% VAT)

Download registration form

July 07 2008

REACH legislation – Preregistration of PVC Substances in Recyclates

Every company active in recycling of PVC waste needs to face the new requirements of REACH regulations. The recycler himself does not fall directly under the Reach legislation for the incoming waste (which is ruled by the Waste Framework Directive) but all he sells to his customers purchasing the recycled material does. Every producer (converter) of e.g. flooring, roofing or pipes can ask any time the material supplier for a ‘Safety Data Sheet’ including the list of the classified substances with their registration number and in many cases the recycler has to supply the SDS automatically. There is no doubt than that in any case the recycler himself will be faced with the Reach requirements. All recyclers will have to pre-register a number of substances in their recycled material online, on the site of the European agency dealing with preregistration.

The pre-registration of substances by recyclers must be performed before 1st December 2008.

" The situation on "Reach and Recycling" has now been to a large extent clarified by EU Commission Services Note n° CA/24/2008 of 2 June 2008. We have analysed the document and we are now preparing our Stakeholder response to the Commission which has to be tabled by 7 July.

The support and step-by-step guidance to the recyclers regarding the REACH Regulations to navigate through the newest legislation, issues and problems will be provided by EuPR to its members during the summer months; in particular it is planned to provide the list of substances to be pre-registered. General information on Reach is provided on the EuPC (the European Plastics Converters Association) site www.plasticsconverters.eu. The Reach helpdesk is part of EuPC Services (www.eupcservices.org) and can be accessed through the following link: www.eupcservices.org/services/helpdesk.

It has been decided by the Management Committee of EuPR (the European Plastics Recyclers Association), that as a starter two training seminars will be organised in Brussels during the summer months (http://www.plasticsrecyclers.eu/news). They will be conducted by Mark Burstall and Walter Claes. The final dates have not been fixed, but it will be 29/31 July and 27/29 August. More trainings in different countries will follow later.

July 01 2008

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO OUR RECYCLERS !
SIGNIFICANTLY DELAYED DATA INPUT

Dear Recyclers registered within Recovinyl’s programme,

As all of you perfectly realize one of the requirements of our financial support system is regular online input of data. All information regarding the PVC waste your company would like to register in our system and which is supposed to be a subject to our incentive programme, should be implemented in the online system on weekly basis. If it is not possible to meet this requirement for any reason we urge all our recyclers to enter the data at least once a month.

Analyzing the records online we have noticed that many of the recyclers have not entered yet the data for the second quarter of 2008. Input of waste once a quarter, just at the end of it, is just unmanageable. It makes it delicate and complex to manage the incentive budget within Recovinyl. Facing this kind of problem, if the situation will not improve within short period of time, we will be forced to consider reallocation of the funds assigned to particular companies. The incentives of the applicable envelopes will have to be redistributed to those recyclers which entered their data on time and were doing that on more or less regular basis. The volume that has not been registered within the agreed time schedule could not be paid.

Please keep always in mind the basic requirements of our financial support concept for registered tonnage of post-consumer PVC waste streams. Recovinyl needs to convince its financing body as well. The fact of reserving almost 6Mio € in order to avoid further ban or tax legislation regarding the use of PVC, has a positive impact on the recyclers’ business.

In order to avoid discussions and misunderstandings, we would like to ask all our participating recyclers to start immediate and regular data input into Recovinyl’s system.

April 07 2008

Working Group Bergamo, Italy
19th June 2008

Dear recyclers of the Recovinyl’s programme,

Being active in a recycling activity of plastics (in this particular case – PVC) you realize for sure that any changes within the REACH regulations have a strong influence on your business.

In order to help our recyclers in navigation through the newest regulations net and keep them updated and aware of any new issues and problems regarding REACH regulations, on 19th June 2008 in Bergamo, Italy EuPR (European Plastics Recyclers) organises a Working Group meeting during which new elements of the changing law and several issues regarding REACH will be introduced. Participation in such a working group will with no doubt, provide you with a guidance of how to comply with coming into force new REACH legislation.

More information regarding the latest evolution of the REACH you could find in the EuPR’s newsletter.

Participation in this meeting is of high importance for the PVC recycling business. The latest progress and development of the Recovinyl’s activity will be also presented and discussed during the working group in Bergamo.

We realise that the meeting will be conducted in English only but none the less we would like to encourage as many recyclers as possible to take part in the discussion group meeting in Italy. We would like to keep you well informed about the evolution of our concept but also we are prepared to hear about the problems you face in everyday business. We strongly believe that working together and listening to each others will help us to find solution to many obstacles we face businesswise.

Should any of the recyclers be interesting in participation, please contact Miss Angela Janssens (angela.janssen@recovinyl.com) at Recovinyl’s office.

Please find below the agenda of the Working Group in Bergamo:

EuPR PVC Working Group Agenda
19th June 2008, 11:00 – 16h30
Bergamo, Italy

1. Welcome and approval of minutes last meeting in Brussels.


2. Recycling in Europe: future developments and economical outlook.


3. New Markets for PVC recyclates.


4. Standardization & REACH update (Cadmium).


5. Update on Recovinyl activities.


6. AOB.


7. Date and place of next meeting.

April 07 2008

REACH Update, April 2008

This newsletter is intended to give some interim help and guidance to plastics recyclers over issues that may affect them as the new Reach Regulation starts to take effect. EuPR has been working hard with the European Commission to try and find simple and cost effective sulutions to the problems of working within the Reach system and has established a roadmap outlining the key steps that need to be achieved. A joint action plan has also been agreed with Plastics Europe and EuPC.

1. It seems clear that plastic recyclers will need to provide safety data sheets if they produce either substances or preparations in their processes.


2. The question of registration, and therefore of pre-registration remains unclear.
   
   • In a written answer to a question in the European Parliament, Mr. Verheugen has helped to clarify the interpretation of Article 2(7)(d). He has stated that "it is up to the manufacturers and importers of [plastic] recyclates to assess whether their material is a substance, a preparation or an article" and "it is up to the recycler to assess whether the recovered substance is the same as a substance already registered". EuPR will now work on providing a number of reasoned guidelines to help support an industry wide position on both issues.
   
   
   • ECHA has commented on pre-registration with the fullowing statement. "According to article 2(7)(d), substances which result from recovery are exempted from registration only if they are already registered. Consequently it is advisable that recyclers do pre register their substance, in case nobody finally register it and they would decide to do so, as otherwise the recycler would not be able to benefit from the transitional provisions." Preregistration is free and the pre-registration period runs from 1st June to 1st December 2008. There is no obligation to fullow up pre-registration with an actual registration but it does buy valuable time if actual registration becomes necessary. EuPR will provide guidance for plastics recyclers on the pre-registration process before the end of May 2008.


3. There are some substances, typically historic additives that are no longer in use, which will probably not be registered under Reach. EuPR has joined with a number of other European industry bodies to request that such substances should be exempt from registration in the case of recycled plastics. This exemption is being requested under the ongoing review of Annex V of the Reach Regulation. If this request is not successful then registration of these substances will be necessary.

As noted above, the advice from ECHA is that plastic recyclers should consider pre-registration for the substances in their recycled material. The ECHA website does not yet have detailed guidance on the preregistration process although this is expected soon. However for those who want to prepare themselves before the EuPR guidance is issued, there is ECHA guidance on Data Sharing (ex-RIP 3.4), which contains a lot of information on Pre-registration, SIEFs etc.: document data_sharing_en.pdf should be helpful.

There are the documents from the Reach IT Workshop of 15th February 2008 concerning specifically Preregistration (§3): http://echa.europa.eu/news/20080215workshop_en.html
The most important document is:<<20080215_05Pre-registrationAndPre-SIEF.pdf>>.

Finally, there will be the Agency/Commission Pre-Registration Awareness campaign starting 14th April and a "REACH Workshop - Final Countdown to pre-registration and registration of chemicals": EuPR will continue to provide updated information as it becomes available.

EuPR
Avenue de Cortenbergh 66, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 742 96 82 - Fax: +32 2 732 63 12
E-mail: info@plasticsrecyclers.eu - Website: www.plasticsrecyclers.eu

February 23 2008

Operational results 2005-2007. Prognosis for 2008.
Our website now in 10 languages!

We are glad to announce that since 18th February 2008 our website is also available in Portuguese. A new banner – Portuguese this time, has appeared in the language selection bar in the right top corner. Every additional language in which our site is available means obviously expansion of our activities in new regions. After Italy which has joined lately our programme, Portugal is the 13th country where Recovinyl is present with its incentive concept. Currently we cooperate with 110 recyclers from 12 different countries.

Recovinyl is present on the market since June 2003. As far as we are active in more and more countries, registering increasing quantities of post-consumer PVC, we would like to present our operational results starting from 2005 and some forecasts for the nearest future.

The operational results published here start in 2005 as far as 2003 and 2004 was a testing phase. It was a process full of long debates and complicated consultations of other recycling systems. Full implementation of our concept within the PVC recycling sector in particular countries took us almost one and a half year.

At the beginning of our activity we concentrated our efforts on registration of only rigid PVC applications. In 2006 we have started also collection of flexible PVC like cables, flooring and roofing materials. The growing evolution in registration of rigid and flexible material is represented by the chart underneath. For comparison the total collected volume of post-consumer PVC material has been provided as well.

To achieve this volume in 2007 of collected and recycled PVC materials there must have been 8700 lines of waste input entered in the system of Recovinyl. This goal has been reached thanks to the daily input of the collected volume by the acredited recyclers in our web database.

We would also like to present the relation between the required investments we needed to incur in order to collect the achieved volume of post-consumer PVC materials.

We expect further expansion of our project. We plan to develop our activities not only within already existing markets but also to extend our actions towards new regions like Central Europe, Sweden and Austria. We are looking forward to meeting new potential partners showing interest in our programme and willing to join the efforts in registration of end-of-life PVC materials.

October 23 2007

REACH WORKSHOP - PLASTICS RECYCLING

The REACH Helpdesk of EuPC Services and the European Plastics Recyclers Association are pleased to invite you to their 2nd workshop aiming at answering all questions plastics recyclers may have related to the REACH Regulation, which has entered into force on 1 June this year.

This workshop taking place in the EuPC Centre, in Brussels, on 14 December 2007, will focus on plastics recyclers concerns about the new chemical regulation.
EuPC Services REACH Experts knowing its impact on the plastics recycling industry will put their knowledge to the benefit of the industry during this workshop.

You can already send all your questions related to REACH to the EuPC Services REACH Helpdesk. These questions will be forwarded to our experts who will give the answers during the workshop.
By registering for this workshop you will be given access to the list of questions which have been asked in the plastics recycling sector, which could also be questions you should have asked yourselves.

To download the programme please click here.
To download the registration & question form please click here.

For more information, please feel free to contact Song-Lâ OPHASO (Ms) at the EuPC Services REACH Helpdesk (E-mail: reach@eupc.org / Tel: +32 2 739 63 81).

September 17 2007

New "PVC SORTING GUIDE" for all users, members & recyclers now online!

We would like to inform all partners of Recovinyl"s program and users of our site that a new important element has been installed.

By choosing the home page of Recovinyl, a user can see an icon "DOWNLOAD OUR SORTING GUIDE" in right top corner. This document has been updated to the latest requirements of the Recovinyl"s system.

The "SORTING GUIDE" has been expanded also in volume to provide users with as much valid information as possible. The file is available online in .pdf format.

Its content describes in details the assumptions of the Recovinyl"s concept and requirements for the new potential partners to join the system.

The brochure presents also all necessary steps to be followed to become a recycler or a member of our programme and register your company on the site.

The "SORTING GUIDE" will for sure come in handy for already registered users of the site. It includes a lot of brief tips supported by photos of how to recognize various PVC waste categories (A & B Grade), what kind of PVC materials are covered by Recovinyl"s programme and which materials cannot be accepted.

The brochure includes as well presentation and examples of PVC applications, as much for rigid as for flexible materials, which can be found in the general waste streams.

If there is any doubt if the PVC waste you have in your possession can be covered by Recovinyl"s incentive programme, just take a look at our "SORTING GUIDE". All explanations presented there are supported with images to make a distinction between various kinds of PVC materials present in your delivery easier.

The "SORTING GUIDE" presents also all necessary contact data of our local partners per country. You can always make use of it and in case of any further doubts contact our agent in your native language to clarify the situation and answer all your questions.

Hopefully, users will find the new PVC brochure helpful and handy when participating in our programme and dealing with PVC rigid and flexible materials.

September 05 2007

Recovinyl now also in Czech

With pleasure, we would like to inform all partners of our programme and the users of the site that Recovinyl’s activity is expanding.

So far the website of Recovinyl has been available in eight different languages: English, French, German, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and lately also in Polish.

In order to encourage new partners from other countries to combine the forces and join our programme of PVC recycling, from today on the site is available also in Czech.

We hope that the new users will find the new feature of the website a convenient tool in their daily site use. Surfing through our website in their native language should make the programme more transparent and more advantageous for the another-language users.

June 01 2007

New Version of Our Website

We are delighted to inform all our customers and partners that the website of Recovinyl has got a new layout. It took our IT team some weeks to develop the new version (called by the specialists - v2), finalize some translation issues, to remove bugs appearing to our users and to improve the general functionality of the site.

Several features of the website have been changed and/or improved to enable users to work faster and more efficient. Some of the elements, which appeared to be confusing for them, have been removed or replaced by a new functions or layout format. Some of them are listed below:

• "Lightweight" pages: reduced page-size from 300kb down to 60kb (every page should load five times faster than with the previous version).
• Increased logging-in security.
• Enhanced database connection (minimising connections "in the background", which results in faster downloading of a page).
• Stretchable layout (different words in multiple languages, both: long and short words/sentences will be visible without any further problems of being cut in the middle. It appeared to be problematic for some languages).
• Fully compliant with most modern browsers (Internet Explorer 7 / Firefox).
• Enhanced page titles (Recovinyl - User Profile - User full name etc.)
• Improved functionality for the most popular search engines on internet.
• Better notifications on non-allowed login, lost password and sign-up page.

The functionality of the site stays the same and bug-testing function is also still active.

The new layout upgrade will be available to the users from the beginning of June 2007.

February 22 2007

EuPC Reach Helpdesk

EuPC Services CVBA has set up a helpdesk to assist plastics processors and recyclers in their preparation for compliance with REACH but also to help them in the tasks they will be performing in the next few years. This helpdesk also provides online consultancy to answer any questions they may have related to REACH.

For more details please visit the EuPC Services website: Reach Helpdesk or send an email to reach@eupc.org

July 06 2006

Un accord de partenariat entre Recovinyl et PVC Recyclage

Depuis le début de cette année, un accord de partenariat est intervenu entre Recovinyl et PVC recyclage.

PVC Recyclage est actif en France depuis 2001, dans le cadre de l"engagement volontaire des transformateurs français de PVC rigide. Sa mission est d"offrir une solution respectueuse de l"environnement pour la valorisation des déchets de PVC rigide par le recyclage.

Recovinyl pourra compter sur l"expertise de PVC Recyclage dans l"Hexagone pour implanter son système d"incitants financiers pour la collecte des déchets en PVC dans la construction et la démolition. La première phase de cette implantation consiste en la création d"un réseau de Recycleurs agréés à travers la France.

Pour atteindre cet objectif, des moyens financiers et humains sont mis en commun. Monsieur Benoît Leclère, déjà en charge du développement de Recovinyl pour la Belgique francophone et le Luxembourg, se consacrera aux 10 départements français frontaliers avec la Belgique.

Monsieur Francis Aublé, de PVC Recyclage, prendra en charge le reste de la France.

Afin d"assurer la pérennité du système, Recovinyl recherche un auditeur, pour la France, qui effectuera des audits réguliers auprès des acteurs de la chaine de collecte/recyclage.

Les premiers résultats de cette coopération dépassent les attentes des deux sociétés et laisse présager d"une coopération encore plus fructueuse pour l"avenir.

November 01 2005

New appointed UK auditor

Mr. Stan Ebelewicz has been appointed as an auditor for the certified recyclers within the Recovinyl concept in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Mr. Ebelewicz has 25 years of experience in Construction and Municipal solid waste management within many European countries.

Before the end of the year he should visit, together with our local agent David Wiles of AXION recycling, all officially registered and certified UK recyclers in order to audit the collected volumes of post-consumer PVC of 2005.

October 23 2005

Domain Pointers

From now on you can visit the Recovinyl website with the following domain pointers :

• www.recovinyl.com
• www.recovinyl.net
• www.recovinyl.org

The french/dutch version of the website was fully implemented, for additional help with the signup procedure use this help page

October 06 2005

Accesibility in multiple languages

From today, you can browse the recovinyl website in multiple languages.

Please choose your language on the homepage, your possible options are :

• English
• Nederlands
• French

More languages will be added in the future

September 26 2005

Analyzing extension Recovinyl's program

The management of Recovinyl is analyzing the possibility to extend the Recovinyl's program towards the flexible post consumer PVC applications like flooring, membranes, cables as well.

In case more info is needed, comments to be given or questions to be asked please send them to us to the following e-mail address info@recovinyl.com.

September 23 2005

Signup procedure finalized

From this week on, members (collectors of waste, sorting waste parties) as well as potential recyclers can sign in, and receive a login with password.

Having these, contact data can be filled in, and the company profile can be completed as well.

September 15 2005

First Payment for collected volumes

Today the first payment of the Recovinyl's incentive for collected post-consumer PVC has been executed. This payment took place at collectors in the Benelux as well as collectors in the United Kingdom. The collected volumes are higher then expected.

After acceptance it appeared that the quality of the delivered post-consumer PVC is right in line with the needs for further processing the material at the certified recyclers.

June 13 2005

United Kingdom

The BPF (British Plastic Federation) has been appointed as supervisor for the implementation of the Recovinyl concept in UK and Axion Recycling Ltd will be the organization to implement the Recovinyl concept in the region.

Contact details for Axion Recycling:
89 Woodford Road
Bramhall
SK7 1JR
info@axionrecycling.com

Information help line
Tel 0870 240 2416 or 0161 426 7731 Fax: 0870 2402417

Cylinder Plastics Ltd from Faversham in Kent has been certified as the first Recovinyl post-consumer PVC recycler in the UK. 5 more UK recyclers are in the process of signing up.

June 08 2005

Benelux

De Jonge Sebra from Middelburg in the Netherlands and in Belgium Sita at Izegem, CometSambre and Rulo in Pecq have been certified as Post Consumer PVC recyclers within the Recovinyl concept.