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| 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.
| Around 2500 old PVC window profiles will be collected and recycled mechanically.
| On December 18th, a provisional agreement was reached between the three institutions on the waste package.
| According to calculations made by Interseroh, which is an independent verifying unit, PRESS GLASS saved 562 tons of natural resources in all its plants in 2016.
| Strategic Materials, Inc. today announced the expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint by opening a new, state-of-the-art glass processing plant in Delavan, Wisconsin.
| A call for applications to an £18 million Circular Economy Investment Fund brought together people from across the building, demolition, waste processing and glass industries this week.
| Strategic Materials is the industry leader in recovering and processing post-consumer and post-industrial glass in North America.
| British Glass will be co-hosting an event to discuss and present ideas for how a flat glass recovery network could operate in Scotland – linked to Zero Waste Scotland’s call for applications to the country’s £18 million Circular Economy Investment…
| Viridor’s Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Ardley near Bicester has hosted an educational tour for teaching staff and prison officers, as part of Milton Keynes College’s Offender Learning programme.
| The USA is this month marking Workplace Eye Wellness Month. Jane Embury, marketing director at advanced glazing system supplier Wrightstyle, looks at light in the UK workplace, and why we should also be aware of eyesight issues.
| Glass for Europe welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee of its proposals to improve the Circular Economy Package.
| British Glass is researching how the refurbishment and demolition supply chains could be enabled to recycle more flat glass back into new glass.