WHY SHOULD YOU RECYCLE GLASS?
There are many benefits to recycling glass, some of which you might not know yet. For example, did you know that recycling glass saves over 12 million tonnes of raw materials each year?
Glass is a 100% recyclable material made from three natural ingredients – sand, soda ash and limestone. Making new containers from recycled glass not only saves on these raw materials, but also helps reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. And the best part? No matter how many times you recycle it, glass never loses its quality.
Recycling glass is a topical issue in modern societies all over the world, but it’s nothing new: glass packaging and its recycling has been an integral component of human lifestyles for millennia. Historical and archaeological evidence demonstrates that even in antiquity, glassworkers were already collecting and reprocessing broken glass into new consumer goods. Looking to the modern era, the current collection schemes in Europe have been in place for over fifty years, and today, some 1.5 million bottle banks are available for residents to rely on.
