Austria: Austrotherm has launched a nationwide extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulation cut-off collection service. The service will pick up waste XPS insulation from building sites for recycling in production at Austrotherm’s Purbach XPS insulation plant.
Technical director Heimo Pascher said “Our XPS sheets are ideal for recycling and can be fed back into the production process - this enables us to reduce CO2 emissions and the consumption of resources in production. We are taking an important step in the direction of the circular economy.” He added “We have carefully analysed the savings effect. By recycling we reduce the CO2 emissions in the disposal of construction site waste by at least 50%. With every tonne of XPS which we recycle, 1.80t of CO2 can be saved. Or, to put it more impressively, every tonne of XPS that we recycle from construction sites saves as much CO2 as around 148 European beech trees bind in a year.”
