You can clean it by hosing it down. Moreover, he adds, people like the idea that they're helping the recycling effort. Recycled PVC now accounts for 20 to 25 percent of Western Profiles' production. Wall is on the lookout for more. He has beefed up the recycling department with the installation of custom sorting equipment, and has arranged contracts with window fabricators across the country who ship their cutoffs to the Winnipeg plant.
Bees take to plastic Another experiment is plastic beehives.
Wall got into this by coincidence. One of the sorters on the recycling line was Javad Niazi, a recent immigrant from Iran. He had a lot of experience with beekeeping in his previous career with the Iranian agriculture department. He asked if the recycled PVC could be used for beehives. Wall agreed to let Niazi and recycling manager Joe Froese experiment with a plastic hive.