Completing the Vinyl Cycle
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In Australia, PVC is used to make transparent bottles with a blown handle, commonly used for cordials and more recently, rice containers.
Vinyl Cycle is a post-consumer waste program which collects such PVC bottles from kerbside bins. It is supported by Peteron-Plaspak, a PVC bottle manufacturer and its customers – the retailers.
Until 2007, AV was actively involved in Vinyl Cycle and a signatory to the National Packaging Covenant, as a supplier of resin to the bottle market.
Vinyl Cycle was launched nationally by the Federal Minister for Environment, Senator Robert Hill, in October 2000. Under the program, PVC bottles are recovered from household recycling bins at kerbside collections, then sent to a third party in Geelong, Victoria for processing. Processed recycled PVC (recyclate) is then marketed to existing PVC resin customers for use in practical everyday products such as pipe fittings and floor coverings.
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