NEWS RELEASE
07 August 2008
The Vinyl Foundation publishes a list of Europe’s
socially responsible PVC product manufacturers
Following the establishment of a brand new funding mechanism for the European PVC
converting industry to support the Vinyl 2010 initiative, a positive list of those companies who
have made their first payments through this new system, has just been published on the
internet
Vinyl 2010 is an internationally respected ten year voluntary commitment that is working for
the sustainable future for the whole of the European PVC industry. The Vinyl Foundation has
been established to allow for further and more equitable financing of Vinyl 2010’s PVC
recycling projects from Europe’s PVC product manufacturers.
“Since 2000, as an industry, both raw material producers and converters have been investing
millions of euros each year through Vinyl 2010 to establish a robust industry to recycle PVC
products at the end of their first life. But not all companies have been contributing to this
essential program, which last year was responsible for supporting the recycling of some
150,000 tonnes of post consumer PVC waste across the EU” says Joachim Eckstein,
Chairman of the Vinyl Foundation.
“Funding through the Vinyl Foundation, to support the growing recycling of PVC, will be
essential to the sustainability of our industry in the long term. Now for the first time the public
will be able to go onto the internet and see who the responsible PVC product manufacturers
are” he continues.
For more information on the Vinyl Foundation, and to see the list of contributing PVC product
manufacturers, go to: www.vinylfoundation.org
Media contact:
Kathryn Sheridan
Cambre Associates
ksheridan@cambre-associates.com
Tel: +32 2 645 7990
Avenue de Cortenbergh, 66
P.O. Box 4 – 1000 Brussels – Belgium
Tel: +32 2 732 41 24
Fax: +32 2 732 42 18
info@vinylfoundation.org
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