It is estimated that a staggering 11.6 million average size bottles* were made using over 775 tonnes of recycled automotive waste glass from Auto Windscreens between January and June this year. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, September 15, 2013 ...
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A Guelph factory would happily recycle glass from local blue boxes again — for an annual fee estimated at $84,000. Unwilling to pay, regional government has chosen instead to dump 3,000 tonnes of glass that Ontario compels it to ...
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Ohio's three big consumers of recycled glass clearly have a problem when it comes to repurposing the material into insulation and bottles: The state's residents and businesses aren't recycling enough. About 90 percent of glass containers ...
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Volunteers Needed for Glass Recycling Event Saturday CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) - Saturday is glass recycling day, and the City of Corpus Christi is asking residents to bring in glass to the Padre Island Property Association building on ...
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The annual amount of carbon reduction as a result of recycling glass containers in Taiwan is about 1,000 times the carbon dioxide absorption of Taipei's Daan Forest Park, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said yesterday. ...
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For many Hongkongers, a typhoon signal late in the week might cause concern over the weekend's junk boat trip or long-awaited alfresco wedding. Others may be pleased that they can get a day off work. But for April Lai, the head of Green ...
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THE Leeuwin Lions Club is set to wrap up its glass recycling service in Augusta, with glass collection to cease all together. See your ad hereThe club has managed the collection and sorting of glass disposables for nearly 30 years but ...
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Nampak Glass has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of several senior people. Fanie Vermeulen is Operations Director. He has been bottling and filling for more than 30 years. Sales director, Paul Coombe, has 23 years of ...
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Mountains of recyclable glass have been piling up ever higher at centres in and around Montreal, ever since Klareco, a glass processing plant in Longueuil that prepared about 70 per cent of the glass in Quebec for recycling shut down last ...
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Austria-based BT-Wolfgang Binder has built a glass powder plant for Dutch glass foam producer Geocell. The new plant, located in upper Austria, will produce foam glass ballast from recycled glass. BT-Wolfgang Binder was involved in the ...
Sheffield based independent research, test and design specialist, Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS), has completed a £500K investment programme to meet increasing demand throughout the glass supply chain. The two-year programme ...
The City Council has taken its first official step toward eliminating curbside glass recycling in Sioux City, saying the move was needed to ensure residents wouldn't be charged more for the service. The council gave its first-round ...
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SIOUX CITY | Roger Rozell, of Sioux City, spent Monday sorting bottle after bottle in the redemption center at Laurence's Super Market. Green bottles in one area. Empty beer bottles in cartons. Entire grocery carts filled with open wine ...
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Recycled glass could solve the problems of the building industry's huge demand for river sand and minimise the ecological impact on the Pearl River Delta. The Construction Industry Council commissioned a HK$3 million study at the ...
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SIOUX CITY | City officials are considering ending curbside glass recycling and encouraging people to cash in bottles for refunds instead. They said decline in the value of glass has made processing it impractical without passing higher ...