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Polyvinyl Chloride PVC |
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In the past, PVC has been the subject of some controversy, fuelled by concerns from environmental NGOs and Green groups. This has made PVC and the Industry the focus of some attention in the public arena. The PVC Industry has been pro-active in its approach to Sustainable Development and has responded to these issues.
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), is a major plastics material which finds widespread use in transport, packaging, electrical/electronic, healthcare and coated fabrics applications. Countless applications which help to improve the quality of people's lives worldwide rely on PVC to offer a sustainable and cost-effective solution. |
PVC material page
Vinyl 2010 - The Voluntary Commitment of the PVC Industry
BPF Vinyls Group Resources and Downloads
Third Party Views of PVC
VinylSUM - an initiative with IPTME, Loughborough,
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Indeed, the number of socio-economic benefits of PVC products is colossal, ranging from packaging to floorcoverings and toys to window profiles. PVC is extensively used in water distribution and sewage management systems across the globe, a vital contribution to hygiene and civil society achieved at a sustainable cost. PVC products are also saving lives, in blood bags and surgical tubing, vital parts of modern everyday healthcare, and applications which thrive on PVC's unique technical properties.
PVC is typical in the kinds of world-enhancing solutions that all plastics are providing people with everyday. Whether it's a 100% recyclable resource-efficient sandwich-box lowering the burden of packaging waste, or whether it's non-kink surgical tubing saving someone's life, everywhere, everyday, PVC is meeting human needs.
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Despite 50 years of PVC solutions transforming civilised society and boosting developing countries, the material has been the subject of unfair criticism on the basis of an allegation that its environmental impact is problematic and that its characteristics represent a health and safety problem. |
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The campaign against PVC is embedded in an equally unjustified campaign against the commercial production of chlorine. As almost a third of all global chlorine production goes into the manufacture of PVC, the industry has become an obvious target for those seeking the sunsetting of industrial chlorine production.
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This area of the BPF website contains a lot of information about what the PVC Industry is doing to address Sustainable Development as well as various downloadable factsheets and resources to demonstrate where PVC is used and why. If you can't find what you're looking for, email: pvc@bpf.co.uk
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