Environment Statement
Our Environmental Philosophy
Envorinex™ strives to remain at the forefront of providing a ‘cradle to cradle’ material; an environmental and sustainable product.
While earlier environmental concerns concentrated upon emissions from production processes, it is also important to consider the whole life-cycle of the product.
Figures available for uPVC show that the energy requirements for its production are much lower than those for most other plastics and for steel and aluminum.
- PVC requires lower processing temperatures which means lower energy consumption
- Poly Marketing Pty Limited has very little waste; all our material is recycled back into the processing
- Life expectancy of PVC is much greater than timber or aluminum, thereby eliminating the need for additional energy requirements, as a result of replacing warped timber, corroded aluminum and rusted steel;
- Poly Marketing Pty Limited does not use lead in any of its processing;
- PVC provides a finished, no-maintenance material, unlike timber and other products;
- All Poly Marketing Pty Limited products are made from either 100% virgin material where strict specifications are to be met and other products are made from recycled materials, both of which provide for full recyclability into further end products, as such it is not necessary for any waste at the end of its life;
- Polymer products are light weight which means a further reduced emissions impact through transportation of the products;
- Poly Marketing Pty Limited products at the end of their design life can be returned to our own recycling program for reprocessing in-plant for lower specification alternatives.
Environmental concerns have heightened during recent years with greater public awareness.
Nature provides many useful materials but our use of these has adversely affected our environment. We treat our timber to preserve and extend its life-cycle which then causes a waste disposal issue and our growing demand for timber cannot be met be nature.
For centuries we have burnt coal to provide heating and power as such during the 1990’s we devised the ‘end-of-pipe’ system to clean-up the global greenhouse effects.
It is impossible to produce or use any natural material without affecting the environment in some form. The use of any naturally occurring resource inevitably reduces the amount available to future generations, so conservation of resources is important.
The plastics industry is a small user of the world’s fossil fuel resources; production of the vast range of plastic products uses just 2% of the oil and natural gas consumed in Australia. Approximately 95% of that oil and gas is consumed as heating and transport fuels, and irretrievable lost up the chimney of through the exhaust.
The plastics industry is an energy saver; the use of energy to manufacture many plastic products actually helps to conserve heating and transport fuels. The annual saving in gasoline consumption due directly to the plastics light weighting of motor cars is greater than the energy consumed to manufacture those plastics components. Additionally the components are made only once, whereas the fuel savings occur year after year for the life of the vehicles.
It is important to identify those materials which, throughout their ‘life-cycle’ have the least environmental impact, and are ‘sustainable’.
