Mark Everard Mark.Everard@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Ecosystem Services
Twenty Years of the Polyvinyl Chloride Sustainability Challenges
Everard, Mark
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Abstract
Intense campaigning pressure on the UK PVC sector up to the late 1990s forced strategic engagement with sustainable development. Simplified outcomes from a detailed, consensus-based analysis by science-based NGO The Natural Step (TNS) took the form of five TNS Sustainability Challenges for PVC published in 2000. UK manufacturing companies initially used these Challenges to direct strategic progress. The Challenges have since been progressively taken up across European PVC value chains. The VinylPlus® programme uses an updated version of the five Challenges as a basis for voluntary commitments and transparent auditing of progress against published targets. Initial framing of the five TNS Sustainability Challenges for PVC were drafted consciously for generic relevance to other materials. Assessing the sustainability performance of some alternative materials to PVC against the five Sustainability Challenges reveals different sustainability performance in a range of potential applications. This highlights the danger inherent in automatic selection or deselection of materials in the absence of assessment of options on a ‘level playing field’ of sustainability principles. The five TNS Sustainability Challenges for PVC remain valid today and into the longer-term future as a basis for making stepwise, profitable progress towards the goal of sustainability for PVC and other materials.
Citation
Everard, M. (2020). Twenty Years of the Polyvinyl Chloride Sustainability Challenges. Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology, 26(3), 390-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/vnl.21754
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 12, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 17, 2019 |
Publication Date | Aug 31, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Nov 12, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 27, 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology |
Print ISSN | 1083-5601 |
Electronic ISSN | 1548-0585 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 390-402 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/vnl.21754 |
Keywords | PVC; sustainable development; VinylPlus®; The Natural Step; Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development; Voluntary commitment |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/4536491 |
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