The European Resilient Flooring Manufacturers’ Institute (ERFMI) has signed the Circular Plastics Alliance declaration, joining more than 100 partners across the plastics value chain who have made voluntary pledges to use or produce more recycled plastics.
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ERFMI signs Circular Plastic Alliance declaration
The Circular Plastics Alliance, a group of public bodies, businesses and trade organisations supported by the European Commission, has published a declaration committing to increasing the use of recycled plastic over the next six years.
The declaration commits to using 10 million tonnes of recycled plastic in new products by 2025 through voluntary market-driven action.
Jane Gardner, Managing Director of ERFMI, said: “At ERFMI we are committed to working towards a circular economy for our products. We look forward to working with the other 100+ signatories from across the plastics value chain to reach the goals laid down in the Circular Plastics Alliance.”
Gardner added that the organisation is involved in several projects aligned with Circular Plastics Alliance principles, including Circular Flooring, a Horizon 2020-funded project.
As one of 11 project partners, ERFMI contributes expertise to the project, which studies end-of-life PVC floor coverings using the Fraunhofer CreaSolv Process. This dissolution process involves the technically sophisticated separation of ‘legacy plasticisers’ to obtain a high-quality virgin-like PVC material for re-use in new floor covering products. The project runs until May 2023.
ERFMI represents the interests of 17 manufacturers and distributors of resilient floor coverings across Europe, who between them produce in excess of 360 million square metres of flooring a year and employ 11,000 people.
Resilient floor coverings are an entire product family of flexible flooring solutions available in sheet, tiles and planks. Their wide range of different functionalities includes acoustic properties, static control, slip resistance and easy maintenance.
