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10 Recycling and disposal
Recycling and disposal have already been taken into
account during the development of all Vaillant products.
Vaillant’s standards lay down strict requirements.
For the selection of materials, the recyclability, demount-
ability and separability of materials and components are
taken into account in the same way as environmental
hazards and health risks during recycling and the dispos-
al of unavoidable remains of unusable residue.
10.1 Appliance
The Vaillant gas wall heater, ecoTEC, consists 92 % of
metallic materials which can be melted down again at
iron and steel works and therefore can be recycled
almost any number of times.
The EPS (styropor)
®
EPP used to isolate the storage and
other components is recyclable and CFC-free.
The plastic materials used are labelled, and thus are
already prepared for sorting for subsequent recycling.
10.2 Packaging
Vaillant has reduced the transport packaging of the
appliances to a minimum. The strict selection of the
packaging materials is based on their recyclability.
The high-quality cardboard articles are secondary raw
materials which have been in demand in the cardboard
and paper industry for a long time.
The EPS and EPP (styropor)
®
is used to protect the prod-
ucts during transport. EPS is recyclable and CFC-free.
Even the films and tightening bands are made of recy-
clable plastic.
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