ROCKWOOL enrols India, China, and Slovenia in Rockcycle programme
2024年5月14日 - 12:35AM
ROCKWOOL enrols India, China, and Slovenia in Rockcycle
programme
Construction and demolition waste accounts for 30 percent of total
waste produced globally, with an estimated average of more than 35
percent of it ending in landfills annually1, indicating an urgent
need to tackle this challenge.
With Rockcycle, ROCKWOOL takes back stone wool material from
construction, renovation and demolition sites and recycles it in
the production process to make new ROCKWOOL products. ROCKWOOL aims
to offer Rockcycle in a minimum of 30 countries by 2030. By adding
India, China and Slovenia, Rockcycle is now available in Europe,
North America and Asia.
“The construction industry has a waste problem. Valuable
materials are too often uncollected and misdirected to general
waste, which ends up in landfill. Fortunately, an inherent trait of
stone wool is that it can be recycled endlessly and still maintain
its mechanical and performance properties. As a circularity
frontrunner in the construction industry, we are constantly pushing
the boundaries of making our products, operations and business
model more circular,” says Mirella Vitale, Senior Vice President,
ROCKWOOL Group.
Pushing for a circular economyROCKWOOL
experiences an increasing demand from architects, specifiers,
engineering and construction companies, public authorities and
policymakers for ways to reduce construction and demolition waste.
However, legislation is lacking.
For example, steps should be taken to increase the cost of
landfill to incentivise recycling and other cycling pathways, while
discouraging the use of non-recyclable products. Even more
effective would be implementing a total ban on landfilling
recyclable materials. Among other things, this would promote
deconstruction over demolition and thus better sorting of different
waste streams. Legislators should establish harmonised definitions
for e.g. recycled content and by-products and introduce harmonised
criteria for recyclability at scale to increase the use of material
that can be recycled over and over again.
“EU legislation should set requirements and provide incentives
to use durable and recyclable materials to renovate existing and
construct new buildings, and to increase landfill costs so
recyclable materials can continue adding value in a circular
economy while reducing waste,” says Mirella Vitale.
To read more about Rockcycle go to Rockcycle®
(rockwool.com).
Contact:Helge Frandsen,Phone +45
22949824helge.frandsen@rockwool.com
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/d2e6c29d-61d1-4694-a628-fe3eb46618c1
1 https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15010076
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