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Austrotherm now offers free collection and return of Austrotherm XPS site scraps. In this way, customers save disposal costs in a simple way and save in the sense of Environmental and climate protection valuable resources. Concretely recycled Austrotherm clean Austrotherm XPS construction site offcuts from current production that arise when cutting and fitting the panels on the construction site. Clean means without foreign materials such as glue, soil or other impurities. XPS material from demolition sites will not be accepted.
This is how the free recycling service works
The pick up of Austrotherm XPS site clippings are made in Austrotherm Recycle bags available online at austrotherm.at / recycling Can be ordered, or in their own transparent bags. The minimum collection quantity is 10 bags or 5 m³. However, the full recycling bags can also be placed in the during opening hours Austrotherm Factory to be brought to Purbach.
Recycling instead of thermal recovery halves CO2Emissions
After a regional pilot test was very well received by customers in the previous year, the decision was made Austrothermto roll out this recycling service across Austria together with logistics partners for the domestic construction industry. “Our XPS sheets are ideal for recycling and can be fed back into the production process - this means we can reduce CO2-Reduce emissions and resource consumption. We are taking an important step towards the circular economy, " so Dr. techn. Heimo Pascher, technical director of Austrotherm Austria.
The high-quality XPS construction site cuttings are not fed to thermal recycling as before, but are crushed, ground and processed in a crusher like production-related cuttings in the Purbach plant. The granulate is then processed again into high-quality, climate-friendly XPS insulation material. This not only saves new raw material, but also avoids CO2 emissions that would result from thermal recycling.
"We have carefully analyzed the savings effect," explains Heimo Pascher. “By recycling we reduce the CO2-Emissions in the disposal of construction site waste by at least 50 percent. For every ton of XPS that we recycle, 1,8 tons of CO2 can be saved. Or to put it more impressively, every ton of XPS that we recycle from construction sites saves so much CO2 how around 148 beeches bind per year ”.
Photo / Video: Pepo Schuster, Austria.
