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Volume 1, No. 3 RfCf >. U;' ( Sterry; A Newsletter for Vinyl Institute Participants I - 3 rr June 1990 Briefing and Press Conference on Sortation Technology at Rutgers held ty 21 PVC-DWV Pipe Approved By Chicago City Council On May 16 A briefing and press conference at the Center For Plastics Recycling Research (CPRR) at Rutgers Universi ty was held May 21 to publicize the technology devel oped at the Center to enable automatic sortation of PVC containers in a mixed plastics stream. Funding to enable this development came from the Council For Solid Waste Solutions, the Plastics Recycling Founda tion and the Vinyl Institute. Roy Gottesman's opening remarks focused on an overview of vinyl plastics. Darrell Morrow, Senior Pro ject Manager at the Center and his staff conducted a tour of the pilot plant and demonstration of the sorta tion apparatus for the press and visiting dignitaries, in cluding AJetha Spang, who serves as the administrator for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Pro tection Office of Recycling. Representatives of VI member companies. Bill Carroll of Occidental Chemical, Jim Kochanski of Georgia Gulf and Bela Mikofalvy of BFGoodrich participated in the program and had an opportunity to describe their individual company efforts on recycling. Since the briefing, there have been several newspaper stories on this development and Roy Gottesman has also been interviewed by three local radio stations and a local TV news show. On'May 16th, the Chicago City Council approved an amendment to the Chicago Building Code to allow the use of PVC pipe in drain waste and vent (DWV) pipe in above-ground applications in residential con struction of buildings three stories or less. The 29-12 vote reaffirmed action taken on May 1 by the Coun cil's Building Committee. A similar amendment was proposed during the administration of Mayor Jane Byrne. During the administration of the late Mayor Harold Washington, who supported the measure, sev eral VI witnesses appeared at hearings attesting to the safety of the product. This time, proponents were led by members of the City Council with the support of Mayor Richard Daley and advocates of affordable housing. continued on page 2 wThe W rifVinyl Institute The Vinyl Institute, A Division of The Society of The Plastics Industry, Inc. Wayne Interchange Plaza II, 155 Route 46 West, Wayne, New Jersey 07470, (201) 890-9299 Fax ft (201) 890-7029 CTL029981 VIKYI in HCYCllB Vinyl Sortation Technology To Be In stalled in U.K. Petroquimica Colombiana Becomes Institute Associate Member Fiscal Year 19901991 Budget Received Approval Chicago was the last remaining major U.S. city thaT did not allow any use of plastic pipe. European Vinyls Corporation (EVC) and PVC through their joint venture company Reprise, fla., have concluded an exclusive letter of agreement with National Recovery Technologies. Inc. (NRT) of Nash ville. Tennessee to ' jointly develop and commercially exploit a fully-integrated closed loop system for the automatic separation and reprocessing of mixed plas tic containers that will yield pure streams of recovered polymers for recycling'. John York, Chairman of EVC. in sharing this information with the Vinyl Institute Executive Board on May 12th prior to the general public release of this announce ment. indicated that a detailed arrangement be tween the parties will be worked out in the next few months. A pilot plant that will act as a demonstration unit, will be installed in the U.K. and is expected to be operational before the end of 1990. The Vinyl Institute had entered into a contract with NRT in November of last year to develop an automat ic sortation device to enable separation of vinyl from a mixed plastics stream. Mr. York emphasized that EVC will honor in every respect, the NRT/VI agreera*|t and that its program will not conflict with VI activiff The Vinyl Institute contract calls for availability of a prototype unit for demonstrations in the U.S. at the end of the year and a further two-year period in which such demonstrations can be carried-out. At the Executive Board Meeting of the Vinyl Institute on May 12th. the membership application of Petro quimica Colombiana. S.A to become an associate member of the Institute was unanimously approved The company which is headquartered in Bogota, Co lombia is a licensee of BFGoodrich resin and Oxychem compound technology. As an associate member, Petroquimica Colombiana joins European Vinyls Corporation in this membership category, which is limited to foreign PVC/VCM pro ducers. Gonzalo Sandino will be his company's voting representative to the Vinyl Institute. A record budget of $1,856,881 for Vinyl Institute opera tions and programs during the fiscal year starting June 1 was recently approved by the institute ExeciJj*e Board. Of this amount, 82.8% is self-funded and rdWJ by member company assessments, the remainder be ing core support received from the Society of the Plas tics Industry, Inc. of which the VI is a division. CTL029982 2 Of the self-funded monies, 75% will be used for techni cal and communications programs that are aimed at promoting vinyl products or developing recycling pro grams and defending the product against unwarranted attacks against vinyl-because of alleged environmental problems. Italian Feeding Studies Show PVC Non-Carcinogenic A copy of a report giving the results of a recent study by Professor Cesare Maltoni concludes that repeated administration of PVC dust in olive oil suspension by /"'gavage' tbs rats did not result in any carcinogenic ef- Coming Attractions.... The full report is to be published shortly in the medical review. Acta Oncoloaia. At press time, the following meetings have been scheduled for Vinyl Institute committees during the summer months: VIGOR Meeting - July 17, 1990 (Vista Hotel, Newark Airport) ELECTRICAL MATERIALS Meeting - July 23-25, 1990 (Hilton Hotel, Chicago O'Hare Airport) TECHNICAL Meeting - July 26, 1990 (Vista Hotel, Newark Airport) PRO Meeting - August 22, 1990 (VI Offices, Wayne, New Jersey) CTL029983