About 2000 pounds of recovered and cleaned foam have been produced and delivered to a major foam products supplier to the automotive industry. Vinyl re-compounder Parma Plastics recovers more than 16 millions pounds of vinyl annually generating revenues for companies that once considered these materials as waste. Their product assists industry in developing sound environmental practices. The company performs a collection of scrap vinyl from sources across North America.
Material is size-reduced, blended and repelletized.
Recompounded vinyl can replace virgin vinyl in many applications or it can be blended with virgin vinyl to reduce raw material costs. The Vinyl Council of Canada 2. Parma Plastics Inc. at Recycler's World Prepared by Tatjana Brkic IISD, 1997.