Roof membrane recycling scheme planned by Recovinyl

The owner of a Derbyshire-based roofing company is aiming to set up the UK’s first dedicated PVC single ply roofing membrane recycling scheme having successfully trialled it with the help of a Recovinyl recycler. Gordon Harris of Advanced Roofing, Ilkeston, took samples of PVC roofing membranes, such as roll ends, offcuts and unusable sections for trial re-processing at Melba Products, based in Bury. The firm uses 800 tonnes a year of recycled PVC (mainly cabling and flooring) to make traffic management equipment, such as road cones. Gordon estimates that between one and 1.5% of PVC roofing materials up to a square metre in size end up in landfill. An effective recycling scheme could divert much of this material from landfill to be re-used

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