Re: [GreenYes] amount of PVC incinerated per year?

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@home.com>]

Are you looking just at packaging PVC, or other applications. You might 
calculate incineration of PVC packaging by taking the total PVC resin sales 
in a given year (APC reports were done by Beck & Associates for a number of 
years), then multiplying that figure by the percent of US MSW that is 
incinerated (I think EPA has it at about 17% now - the number is available 
for all years going back to 1960). Recycling of PVC is negligible.

H.

At 04:29 PM 09/25/2001 -0400, Dangled@aol.com wrote:
>To those who love, cherish and frequently use statistics.....I'm looking for
>the amount of PVC that is incinerated per year in the USA
>
>I need to find a reliable source of data on the number of tons of PVC that
>are in the waste stream and of that, how much is landfilled and how much is
>incinerated?
>
>Any info would be appreciated ASAP!
>
>thanks,
>Dan Gold
>New York, NY
>
>
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