The Vinyl Sustainability Council is seeking participants for a U.S. medical PVC recycling pilot program. The pilot initiative aims to divert products from landfills and encourage the recycling of non-hazardous medical PVC devices in hospitals. The VSC pilot program is looking to collect IV bags, oxygen masks, and oxygen tubing waste to be remanufactured into new products.

Given the need to increase post-consumer vinyl recycling, VSC’s resource efficiency task force set a goal to increase post-consumer recycling to nearly 160 million pounds by 2025. To accomplish this, the VSC has developed a recycling roadmap to reach its goal that includes enabling technology innovation, increasing infrastructure investments, informing recyclers and product producers, and collaborating with other organizations committed to PVC recycling.

Interested hospitals, recyclers, and logistics organizations are encouraged to reach out to Jennifer Armstrong at jarmstrong@vinylinfo.org.