This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at La Unión Europea concluye que no hay razón para discriminar al PVC
The European Union concludes that there is no reason to discriminate against PVC
07/07/2004
on July 7, 2004
A recently completed study provides to the Commission the conclusions of the Horizontal initiative on the PVC initiated six years ago. The European PVC industry welcomes the publication of the study of the company PE Europe on the analysis of the life cycle of PVC and its main competing materials.
This study is the last step of a long process followed by the European Commission to clarify the environmental impact of PVC and confirmed independently that with regard to this aspect, the PVC is as good as any other materialwith its strengths and its weaknesses, on the basis of each application and its use, and there is no reason to treat the PVC differently from any other material.
After six years of research, the European Commission currently has all the information necessary to complete its Horizontal initiative, and make public a statement about the PVC.
The report of PE Europe concludes that compare a material like PVC with other alternative makes no sense when it is done in a general way, but that consideration should be given application by application, to the conclusion that there is no material that is best in all the criteria. Position it that has always maintained the PVC industry.
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