Glass Waste Recycling Sheffield
The savings from diverting glass from landfills are beyond just financial. The recycling of waste glass increases recycling rates, improves the reputation of your company, and helps you reduce landfill disposal expenses. As part of our service, we’ll help you choose an appropriate waste container or a wheelie bin for your mixed glass and coloured glass. Call us on 0114 345 0735 to learn more of our services and how we can help your company remain green with glass waste recycling.
Why is it Important to Recycle Glass?
Unlike plastic bottles and jars, glass is 100 percent recyclable and can be recycled indefinitely. This is perhaps one of the most desirable qualities about glass and why it makes sense to recycle it at every chance you get. There is almost no waste generated during the recycling and remanufacturing of glass. Recycling of glass allows the same product to be made over and over again. Below are some of the outstanding reasons why you should recycle your glass waste:
Reduced Carbon Footprint: Recycling glass can drastically decrease the carbon footprint of glass packaging because of its reduced weight. A kilogram of recycled glass saves almost two kilograms of virgin materials used to make glass from scratch. The use of ten percent recycled glass or cullet reduces carbon emissions by five percent and energy consumption by three percent.
Better product preserver: With glass materials, products are preserved exceptionally well. There is no other packaging material that, according to Pace Glass, better prevents contamination while keeping food fresh.
Saves landfill space: For every 3,000 recycled glass bottles, 1,000 k] of waste is kept out of landfills. With improvements in recycling and recovery, glass containers are being recovered and recycled more effectively therefore diverting waste from going to landfills thus lowering energy consumption and the risk for global warming.
How To Recycle Glass Waste?
Recycling glass waste is simple. United Kingdom recyclers currently recycle roughly 71 percent of container glass, which is composed of bottles and jars. Glass companies hope to boost the rate of glass collection and recycling to 90 percent by 2030. However, the UK commercial sector still has a long way to go in terms of glass recycling; bars, restaurants, and pubs currently discard approximately 129,000 tonnes of glass per year. Below are the steps involved in glass recycling:
Collection: We give our clients complete autonomy when it comes to the collection of glass. You can choose where, when and how frequently you want your glass collected and we will oblige. After that, the glass is bulked up and taken to a glass treatment facility.
Sorting and pretreatment: AT the recycling facilities, the glass will be separated according to its grade type and colour to avoid weakening the cullet that will be made out of them. Then after the glass goes through a pre-treatment process that uses blowing air to remove any paper or plastic. Magnets are used to remove any metal things. A final clean is conducted to eliminate any remaining contaminants.
Remelting: After that, the material is crushed, heated, and then shaped into new bottles and jars.
Glass is an incredibly versatile material with a vast range of applications, so making the most of it is a no-brainer. Glas that cannot be recycled into new glass materials can be used for other purposes such as aggregate for sandblasting and concrete.