Ecopak announces investment into glass recycling

The organisation was set up in February 2004 by 18 Bulgarian and multinational companies initially invested some 3.8 million levs (€1.9 million) for its first glass sorting line which was launched in July 2010 in Western Bulgaria. In a statement, Ecopak announced the optical sorting equipment, which comes from Italy, will sort glass by colour and improve the purity of the raw materials to 99.5 per cent.