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Australian Vinyls - Recycling Vinyl

Australian Vinyls participates in a post-consumer waste recycling program called "Vinyl Cycle", which involves kerbside collection of PVC (or 'vinyl') bottles. After collection, the PVC bottles are processed, recycled, and then marketed to existing PVC resin customers for use in practical everyday products such as pipe fittings and floor tiles.

Vinyl Cycle was launched nationally by the Federal Minister for Environment, Senator Robert Hill, in October 2000, together with the Vinyl Bottle Industry Action Plan. Australian Vinyls is a signatory to the Action Plan, which has been registered under the National Packaging Covenant. The main objective of the Action Plan is to achieve a 25% recovery and recycling rate for post domestic vinyl bottles.

Australian Vinyls has been working with major sorting facilities to improve the volume of collected bottles that are passed onto the recycler. Clear vinyl cordial bottles are the most common type of PVC bottle used by consumers. Recyclable PVC items carry the number 3 plastic identification code.

Vinnie Vinyl and Pippa Pipe are characters developed to represent the Vinyl Cycle program and promote the recycling of PVC bottles. Vinnie asks that households look for the PVC identification code and put PVC bottles out for recycling.

Where councils do not accept PVC in their kerbside collection schemes, Vinnie asks that households contact their local council and ask for it to be included. Pippa Pipe represents the pipes and pipe fittings that may be manufactured from these recycled PVC bottles.

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