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Glass recycling is an
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made it possible to achieve a more important element of
uniform wall thickness. It’s an sustainability in the
advantage that makes such bot- container glass industry
– along with its multiple
tles much lighter, although their re-use, allowing bottles to
lower weight also leads to sub- be refilled up to 50 times
stantial savings in raw materials Photo: glasaktuell
and energy, optimises handling
and reduces transport costs.
RECYCLING GLASS; for glass recycling. Germany alone
CREATING SUSTAINABILITY has around 300,000 waste glass
One unbeatable benefit of a containers, which collect about 2
glass bottle is its double potential million tonnes of waste glass per
in terms of container recycling, year. In 2014 the recycling rate
as it can be refilled up to 50 was 89 per cent. Yet when we
times before being recycled as throw our bottles into the relevant
waste glass and then fed back recycling container, we may not be
into the production process. At aware that one tonne of recycled
the moment the average propor- glass saves over 300 kilos of car-
tion of ‘waste’ glass is around bon dioxide emissions in the pro-
60 per cent, and in fact up to duction of new glass packaging.
97 per cent for the less popular Glass packaging is therefore
green glass. Glass can be melted not only one of the most hygienic
down any number of times and and beautifully designed packag-
turned into new high-quality glass ing solutions for drinks, food,
packaging without compromis- perfume, cream and medicine,
ing quality. Moreover, the level of but also one of the most sustain-
social acceptance is unparalleled able in the market. Q
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