Plasterboard Recycling Standard Now Available

The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) have recently

launched a new Publicly Available Specification (PAS) meaning that

there is now a published standard for the recycling of plasterboard

into quality assured gypsum. Developed by WRAP in collaboration

with industry and the British Standards Institution (BSI),

PAS109:2008:

Specification for the production of recycled gypsum from waste

plasterboard provides a specification for producing recycled gypsum

of consistent and verifiable quality from waste plasterboard.

It is the first standard to offer guidance on processing waste

plasterboard.

PAS109 sets a number of minimum requirements for the production

of recycled gypsum from waste plasterboard, setting out how source

materials should be selected, received and handled, the

specification of product grades, how the final product is to be

stored, labelled, dispatched and traced, and requirements regarding

quality control of the final product.

Compliance with the specification should not only enable

plasterboard recyclers to produce a quality assured recycled gypsum

product, but, will also inspire confidence in purchasers of PAS109

recycled gypsum that the material they are buying is a quality

material with consistent specification.

Gypsum recycled from waste plasterboard is already used in a

range of applications including the manufacture of new

plasterboard, the manufacture of cement and in the agricultural

sector as a soil treatment. As markets increase for recycled

gypsum product, significant progress should be made in reducing the

amounts of waste...