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| Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) continues to move forward despite concerns from the UK glass industry and 16 supporting organisations that glass should be excluded.
| Eurocell, the UK’s leading manufacturer, distributor and recycler of PVC-U window, door, conservatory and roofline systems, is rebranding its Ecoplas recycling business to bring it into the Eurocell Recycle stable.
| Thanks to scientists based in South Yorkshire and 27 European partners working together on a £9million project, glass is helping to build a new highway to sustainability.
| On March 24, 2019, Phoenicia and Clear Glass Solutions Ltd. (CGS) officially inaugurated a new laminated glass recycling plant.
| Industrial specialty minerals group Sibelco confirmed that it has officially acquired Macoglass S.r.l, a glass recycler located close to Milan, Italy.
| Building with vision means taking the future seriously.
| CMS Window Systems has maintained a zero waste to landfill rate for the second year in a row, ensuring it continues to lead the way in the re-use and recycling of waste collected throughout its manufacturing and installation operations.
| It has been estimated that between 750.000 and 1 million tonnes of flat glass off-cuts are generated every year in the EU.
| Deceuninck Group proudly announces it has put a new recycling facility into service at its recycling and compounding site in Diksmuide (BE).
| New Production Fills Critical Need for Foamed Glass Aggregates in Sustainable U.S. Building, Highway Construction and Landscape Architecture Applications.
| Eurocell plc has announced it processed a record number of post-consumer window profiles in 2018, recycling in excess of 1.2million frames.
| Şişecem Group, recycled 1 million tons of glass wastes with the “Glass is Glass Again” project, one of the most extensive sustainability and social responsibility projects of Turkey which was started to be implemented in 2011.
| Representatives of British Glass and Glass Technology Services Ltd attended and spoke at the Innovative Glazing Global Summit in Vienna at the end of November.
| Primo Germany has just invested in its own PVC regrinding and recycling equipment. The results: Less production waste, more precise control of the use of recycled PVC, and a strong, green product for the window and door producers.
| Waste recycling and re-use levels at CMS Window Systems reached 100% for the financial year 2017-2018 to hit its ambitious target to completely eliminate waste being sent to landfill.
| An award came from Europe to the activities of Şişecam Group in the field of glass recycling.
| Glass is a popular and indispensable packaging material for food and beverages of all kinds. Current product trends and innovations in production will be presented by manufacturers at glasstec 2018 in Düsseldorf from 23 to 26 October 2018.
| Partnership will preserve an additional 300,000m² of beach in 2018.
| The cullet processing plant is planned to be built in Tatarstan in 2019, said the chairman of the Housing Committee Iskander Giniyatullin during a meeting with opponents of the incineration plant.
| Informa Exhibitions U.S. and the USGBC announced the release of the 2017 Greenbuild Sustainability Report, highlighting valuable metrics and key benchmarks regarding the impact on energy use and waste management.