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Cleaner Technology Projects in Denmark 1996

The Danish Consumption of PVC 1994/1995

This report is an update of the report "Follow-up on the Danish Consumption of PVC" (Opfølgning af det danske PVC-forbrug), which was carried out in 1990 by "the Danish Technological Institute" (Dansk Teknologisk Institut). On the background of information given by "the Central Statistical Office in Denmark" (Dansk Statistik) an analysis of PVC material flow, which covers 90% of the consumption of PVC during the last quarter of 1994 and the last three quarters of 1995, is worked out in this report.

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Miljøstyrelsen) wishes to follow the development of the Danish consumption of PVC and this is the background of the report.

To make the calculations in the report, material from the Central Statistical Office in Denmark (Dansk Statistik) has been used. However, since it is the companies themselves, which pass on the information on e.g. goods, there is a risk of mis-registration at the Central Statistical Office in Denmark (Dansk Statistik). Restrictions and the risk of mis-registration regarding import and export have therefore been taken into account in the project.

Other conditions may give an incomplete picture of the extent of the flow of goods and in the report some of these have been considered and others not. It has been considered that some goods may be listed more than once but so called "hidden" import or export has not been taken into consideration and neither has e.g. import/export of packed goods.

In connection with the analysis of material flow, apart from the division of raw materials, semi-products and products, a division of Danish production, import and export along with soft and hard PVC has been made as well. The single elements have been examined and a comparison with the analysis of material flow from 1998 has been made. The numbers are illustrated.

A comparison of the material flow from 1994/5 with the material flow from 1988 shows that the supplied amount is more or less the same in these two periods. The amount of supplied soft PVC has declined with just under 20 % and the amount of supplied hard PVC has increased with circa 15 % in this period.

The report includes 21 figure appendices.

Author/ institution

DTI Miljøteknik has carried out the project on initiative taken by the National Agency of Environmental Protection in Denmark (Miljøstyrelsen)

This report is subsidised by the National Council for Recycling and Cleaner Technology

ISSN no. 0908-9195
ISBN no. 87-7810-649-4

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