Glass Waste Disposal & Removal
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The UK generates a reported 5 million tonnes of glass waste each year, with over 5 billion glass bottles and jars ending up in landfill. This proves just how much glass recycling is being generated across industries of the UK, making correct disposal more crucial than ever for businesses to get right.
Efficient glass waste disposal is essential to enhance overall sustainability levels and that’s where Reconomy is here to help your business. By guiding your business to help better understand how to manage this material correctly, Reconomy will identify the most sustainable route possible for your glass recycling waste.
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Reconomy offers a wide range of services to support glass collection to help businesses improve overall glass recycling efforts. Visit the below to see if any can help your business start finding more value from its raw materials.
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Recycling equipmentGlass recycling waste is any discarded or unwanted glass raw materials that are no longer in use. It can be generated from a mixture of sources, from households, hospitality settings, offices, to construction projects. Common types of glass waste typically include broken bottles, windowpanes, glass containers, and other glass products.
Glass waste is typically non-biodegradable but can be recycled and repurposed, making it a valuable raw material for a business’s waste management and sustainability efforts. Typically found mixed up in dry mixed recycling and general waste, it’s important for businesses to start segregating this raw material to improve recycling efforts.
Glass is considered non-biodegradable solid waste, usually put incorrectly into general waste bins. This means that it does not decompose naturally and can exist for long periods. However, glass is a highly recyclable and valuable raw material, meaning it can be melted down and reused to create new glass products without losing quality. This makes glass a valuable raw material in recycling and waste management processes.
It is estimated that around 130 million tonnes of glass waste is generated each year across the world. This includes glass used in packaging (bottles, jars), construction (windows, doors), automotive, and other industries.
This is a large volume of raw material that can be recycled but instead ends up in general waste and dry mixed recycling. Let Reconomy help you with your glass recycling and glass collection today.
This will likely depend on what waste management process is in place. Through Reconomy company, Casepak, glass waste is taken to and recycled at the Casepak MRF, where it is then mainly marketed to preprocessors and aggregate companies in the UK. This highlights glass can be a valuable raw material that can be recycled into new products or even energy.
With industry-leading and cutting-edge facilities like this available, it’s crucial for businesses to start segregating raw materials instead of discarding them into general waste.
Reconomy has been partnering with market-leading brands across the construction and infrastructure sectors for over 30 years, helping identify the most sustainable routes for their glass waste.
Glass waste from construction can be any discarded glass materials generated during the construction, renovation, or demolition of buildings and other structures. This waste tends to be generated from items such as old windowpanes, glass doors, architectural glass, and sometimes glass tiles or insulation materials containing glass fibers.
Reconomy helps construction businesses of all sizes apply the principles of the waste hierarchy to their glass waste, identifying glass recycling opportunities to transform the material into a valuable resource instead of waste.
If you are a construction business looking to improve your glass recycling and glass collection efforts, please get in touch to see how a partnership with Reconomy can enhance this.
Businesses, especially those in the hospitality industry, produce large amounts of glass waste every year. Through partnering with Reconomy, we help these businesses introduce sustainable disposal practices, such as partnering with glass collection and glass recycling companies to upcycle the glass materials or, by implementing glass collection and glass recycling programs. These initiatives not only improve sustainability efforts but also enhance a company’s reputation as an eco-friendly brand.
Reconomy helps hospitality businesses of all sizes create value by applying the principles of the waste hierarchy to their raw materials, identifying recycling opportunities for a valuable resource.
If you are a business operating in the hospitality industry needing help with glass recycling and glass collection, get in touch today to see how a partnership with Reconomy can help.
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