The first official recycling programme specifically aimed at the local vinyl flooring industry was recently launched in South Africa. Polyflor South Africa was responsible for coming up with the new programme and its CEO, Tandy Coleman, said that the need for an official recycling initiative has been a long time coming. She added that it was also in line with one of the key objectives of the South African Vinyl Association’s (SAVA) Product Stewardship Programme. “The vinyl flooring market has seen a tremendous growth in recent years and there has not yet been an official programme set in place for the recycling of off-cuts from installations,” Coleman said. Polyflor UK was one of the founding members of Recofloor – the vinyl take-back scheme that started in Europe in 2009 and collects post-consumer vinyl flooring for recycling into new flooring. This initiative recycled a record amount of 508 tonnes of post-consumer waste vinyl flooring last year alone – enough to cover 23 football fields – and continues to grow.
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