DRAINAGE
POLYPIPE AND WOLSELEY LINK UP TO SAVE THE PLANET
Polypipe Building Services and merchant Wolseley Pipe have been trialling a sustainability and recycling scheme.
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olypipe Building Service has been trialling a merchant recycling scheme with Wolseley Pipe in three of its branches in Brimsdown, Trafford and West Bromwich, which has successfully collected more than 2,700kg of recycled waste. The scheme means drivers drop off dedicated empty collapsible pallets to Wolseley Pipe merchants which can be filled with PVC piping offcuts, obsolete products, plastic package and bulk bags, which will be picked up on its next delivery day to the branch. Luchiana Laza, category manager at Wolseley Pipe Centre, says: “We were delighted when Polypipe Building Services approached as they are one of our preferred suppliers so it’s great to see them taking the initiative like this.
“We have weekly deliveries from Polypipe so the volume of waste we now recycle means this scheme makes financial sense due to the cost saving on skips.”
Wolseley plays an important part, as customers interact directly with its branches so this is a convenient way for them to drop off waste at convienent locations.
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The goal of the scheme was to develop and produce sustainable solutions to the key challenges faced in water, climate and ventilation management. With a group-level target of using more than 60% of recycled materials in their products by 2025, Polypipe looked at how it could help customers with their waste reduction and increase the volume of waste products returned into the production process. Wolseley also explained that one of its branches was also able to free up about five parking spaces in its yard, which were previously occupied with waste materials.
The scheme was the first of its kind for these types of plastic products and its success has led Wolseley Pipe Centre to present Polypipe Building Services with its Initiative of the Year award, for going the extra mile with its customers.
The scheme shows that if used correctly, plastic materials can offer a flexible and efficient way to recycle and reuse waste to minimise the amount of virgin resources in the production process.
A spokesperson from Polypipe says: Improving the carbon footprint of Polypipe
Building Services products while supporting contractors to solve our design and installation issues is important, because as part of the wider Genuit group Polypipe Building Services aim for 62% of products to be manufactured with recyclable materials by 2025. “Polypipe are already committed to using more than 60% of recycled materials in our drainage products, and this led to launching the Terrain PVC sustainable pipe in 2022 which is manufactured from up to 65% recycled PVC-u.
“Product innovation and the generation of new sustainable initiatives and collaborations like this recycling scheme are the outcome of a much larger cultural shift internally within Polypipe Building Services towards a recycle and reuse approach being applied across all operations at all levels to establish a fully circular process.”
To ensure that the recycled materials from the scheme contribute to the circular economy has invested heavily in its own recycling and polymer processing plant at Horncastle which re-processes waste plastic and turns its into an engineered product.
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www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net February 2024
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