Seeking Sustainable Development on a Level Playing Field: A PVC Case Study

This book stands alone - aside from the author's own outdated 2008 book ‘PVC: Reaching for Sustainability’, no other book addresses the highly topical matter of the ‘level playing field’ for a sustainability assessment of the use of materials throughout whole societal product use lifecycles. Short and affordable, this is ideal for industry professionals and anybody interested in understanding more about plastics sustainability. PVC is the second most widely produced polymer globally (after polyethylene and polypropylene) with many players in societal value chains of the polymer – from raw material and additive suppliers through manufacturers, compounders and converters, retailers and recyclers – as well as regulators, NGOs, academics and media in all global regions who are increasingly focusing of a range of sustainability issues. The ‘level playing field’ idea and practical approach are increasingly important as intensifying sustainability pressures focus society on the need to ask more sophisticated questions about how best to, and which materials can, meet human needs most efficiently and safely. VinylPlus and ESPA have very substantial interest in this, as have some member companies, so that may be fertile grounds for promotion/institutional support.