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Two weeks into the new year, and the recycling industry is working overtime. The festive season created 750m extra glass bottles, most of which seemed to be lined up in my kitchen ready for the council to pick up.

A doorstep glass recycling scheme in two Northumberland villages is proving to be a success. BBC reported that around 1,400 households in Longhoughton and Shilbottle were given a plastic box for bottles and jars at the beginning of August.

Jeannine Warren is doing more than her part to "reduce, reuse and recycle." She's got at least five tons of green, brown and clear class pebbles atop a weed barrier with flower beds surrounding her central Kentucky home.

Waste firm Biffa has expanded its commercial glass recycling service to cover the West Midlands, South Wales and the M1 corridor including Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield.

Hot Melt Technologies introduced the Benchmark 615 Hot Melt system that can be used with high-viscosity butyls, sealants and mastics for insulating glass window manufacturing, fabrication of door lites and solar panels, and sealing of metal roof…

The proportion of recycled glass used to make new glass containers in the UK has fallen, according to newly-published figures for the 12 months up to August 2006.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a next-generation residential and commercial window prototype. When widely implemented in the marketplace, the high-performance features of the prototype could save billions of dollars annually in…

Glass recyclers want the Government to encourage the use of crushed glass instead of mineral aggregate in base course for roading.

Cherwell council is expanding a glass collection scheme after the success of a pilot, which involved reusable bags. Around 4,000 reusable bags were delivered to households in the district, able to hold around six bottles – this allowed residents to…

Question: I want to replace some old single-pane first-floor windows with glass block windows for security.

Cory Environmental has said that is now sending mixed glass collected in Cornwall directly to Portugal. According to the company the move makes more sense environmentally and will mean that it isn't adding to road congestion.

Environment and Tourism Minister Willem Konjore officially launched the Glass Recycling Company in Windhoek on Thursday. Speaking at the event, Konjore noted that glass recycling is a very difficult industry.

When Supertyphoon Paka, one of the worst typhoons in recorded history, struck Guam on December 16, 1997, Jim Adkins was prepared.

There is still good demand for recycled glass from the aggregates industry – despite the decision by cement firm Cemex to stop using the material.

For the new internal medicine building of the clinic of the University of Würburg, the company IGM from Medard got the task of delivering the facade elements. The full, pre-assembled, glazed window parts with a measuring up to 7.0 x 2.5 m are…

PPG Industries has installed a $1.6-million unit to recycle waste fiber glass at its fiber glass manufacturing plant in Hoogezand, the Netherlands.

A nationwide glass recycling crisis is forcing a Wairarapa rethink on managing waste tonnages – including a call to drink more beer from cans not bottles.

Businesses in the glazing and window replacement sector are the latest to benefit from a series of WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) trials to improve recycling services for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

On March 27, 2006, H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE:FUL) announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Henkel KGaA under which H.B.

H.B. Fuller Co. stated that it reached asset purchase deal with Henkel KgaA, wherein the former company would buy the insulating glass sealant business of the latter company.

A new group has been established to address the problem of what to do with a mountain of recycled glass in New Zealand. Recyclers say glass recycling in the South Island is in crisis, with huge glass mountains piling up because it is too expensive…

International trade fair for window and facade fensterbau/frontale 2006, which takes place together with Holz-Handwerk in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 22-25 March 2006, has two premières to offer this year.The first one is expert discussion…

Researchers at the University of Iowa have found Pella(R) Designer Series(R) windows featuring blinds protected between panes of glass can significantly reduce indoor airborne allergens.

The GlassExpo-Lasi 2006 Fair, to be held for the first time in February, and the simultaneous Nordic Stone Fair will offer professionals a significant information package.

Pellini SpA has won the contract for the supply of blinds for the new exhibition centre, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.