How To Recycle Vinyl Siding

Landfill diversion is one of the impact categories the u s.

How to recycle vinyl siding.

Having said that pvc faces the same major recycling obstacles as many other materials. Sign up for eletters today and get the latest how to from fine homebuilding plus special offers. 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. The vinyl institute is interested in learning about uses and products that come from recycled vinyl.

It is simply ground up and re melted and formed or extruded into new products. The vinyl industry would like to see more products diverted from the landfill and into recycling streams. It has a recycling directory that s searchable by state. They are put into our re grind.

We make it easy for our contractors to keep old vinyl siding out of landfills by giving them access to vinyl recycling bins. Do you have a vinyl recycling story. There are over 100 vinyl recyclers in the u s. Pvc can be melted and formed into a variety of new materials.

You may want to inquire at your local landfill or dump area for vinyl recycling. Scrap prices vinyl siding can be found on the scrap post. If you are a vinyl recycler in north america and would like to be added to the list please contact rich krock. 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.

Efficiently collecting enough waste material and. In our facilities materials that are manufactured out of spec do not get scrapped. Plastic scrap can be valuable. Associate editor chris ermides replies.

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. 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. Locate a vinyl recycling facility in your area. Even begging the installer probably won t do much good.

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. Vinyl industry is addressing in its industry wide sustainability initiative know as vantage vinyl. Since polyvinyl chloride pvc is a thermoplastic material it is pretty straightforward to recycle. 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.

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.