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PVC Reaching for Sustainability
Product Code: 978-1-86125-170-1
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PVC: Reaching for Sustainability
Dr Mark Everard
PVC: Reaching for Sustainability is, as the title suggests, about the progress made by sectors of the PVC industry with the challenge of sustainable development. However, it is also about more than than. It traces the origins of concepts of sustainability and outlines contemporary thinking particularly as it relates to the materials that society uses and how it uses them.
Contents:
Forethoughts
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: PVC Today
1.1. What is PVC?
1.2. A history of conflict
1.3. The response of the PVC industry
Part 2: Sustainability and sustainable materials
2.1. Waking up
2.2. From short-termism to systems thinking
2.3. The Natural Step
2.4. The Natural Step Framework
2.5. Sustainable materials
2.6. Symbiotic value chains
Part 3: A sustainability evaluation of PVC
3.1. The PVC life cycle
3.2. The TNS sustainability challenges for PVC.
3.3. Polymerisation initiators
3.4. Suspending agents
3.5. Stabilisers
3.6. Plasticisers
3.7. Fillers
3.8. Impact modifiers
3.9. Lubricants
3.10. Pigments
3.11. Nitrile rubbers
3.12. Process aids
3.13. The bigger picture of PVC manufacture
Part 4: Getting down to business
4.1. The 'D' bit of 'SD'
4.2. Tacking challenge No.1: From the Earth's crust
4.3. Tackling challenge No.2: Loop the loop
4.4. Tackling challenge No.3: Man-made problems
4.5. Tackling challenge No. 4: It's all in the mix
4.6. Tackling challenge No. 5: Joining up
4.7. Taclking System Condition No.3: Decling harvest
4.8. Tackling all the challenges: Thinking ahead
Part 5: Connecting the sustainable value chain
5.1. We're all in it together
5.2. Windows of opportunity
5.3. Pipe dreams
5.4. Down to earth
5.5. Olympian aspiration
5.6. Emerging markets
5.7. Emerging competition
Part 6: A changing world
6.1. Evidence of change
6.2. Changing attitudes to carbon neutrality
6.3. Changing attitudes to controlled-loop recycling
6.4. Changing attitudes to persistent organic compounds
6.5. Challing attitudes to sustainable additives
6.6. Changing attitudes to engaging the value chain
6.7. Changing attitudes to nature and society
6.8. Bowing to the inevitable
Part 7: PVC and the future
7.1. Lessons learned
7.2. Playing to the same rules
7.3. Taking on the sustainability challenge
7.4. PVC and the future
Index
Forethoughts -
"For most environmentalists, PVC is just bad news. They don't know much about it, or even what it's used for, but somehow it is just worse than all other plastics. It was this prejudice that persuaded me, as Chairman of The Natural Step in the UK, to et up the PVC Coordination Group nearly ten years ago. Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future."
"The dramatic progress that the PVC industry has made over the past decade should give us all hope. When I set out in the late '80s to initiative what subsequently became known as The Natural Step, I had not intended to start an organisation. I'd hoped merely to achieve consensus about fundamental scientific principles that could help sociey make collective progress with the pressing need of addressing sustainable development, cutting through the gfragmentation that I was seeing py providing a basis for common understanding and actio. Prof Karl-Henrik Robert - Founder and Chairman of Research & Development - The Natural Step."
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J Leadbitter
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29/05/2008
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This is an essential read for anyone serious about sustainability. The book captures the key sustainability challenges for the whole of the vinyl chain whether raw material supplier, additive producer or finished product manufacturer. It's author, Dr Mark Everard has a unique style of writing and this coupled with his remarkable scientific expertise makes it of huge value to the global vinyl industry. It is a compelling account of an industry that is grasping the true meaning of sustainability largely through the system conditions of The Natural Step Framework. And it provides a unique compass for those genuinely committed to a strategic sustainable direction for their business. It's value is much wider than just PVC itself and is an excellent read for all those wanting to make a difference to our planet.
Dr Jason Leadbitter, Sustainability Manager, INEOS ChlorVinyls
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