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Partnerships Key to Glass Recycling Success

Two recent models for how partnerships are key to glass recycling success can be found in Ohio and Colorado.
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Lynn Bragg
May 1, 2017
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Members of the glass recycling supply chain, along with local and state agency partners, are critical components to set up and facilitate many community and state glass recycling programs. Partnerships in the recycling arena are not necessarily limited to funding or capital investment for equipment or infrastructure, and often focus on recyclable materials purchasing agreements, as well as steady end markets for glass recyclables.
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Glass Recycling Coalition Strengthens Community Resources

The GRC brings together a diverse membership of more than 35 companies and organizations across the supply chain.
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Lynn Bragg
March 1, 2017
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In celebration of America Recycles Day 2016, the Glass Recycling Coalition (GRC) launched its website, www.glassrecycles.org. The GRC also kicked off the first in a series of webinars targeting a variety of topics—adding another resource to support making glass recycling work.
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Measuring the Success of a Glass Recycling Program

Local and state recycling programs assess their performance and success based on tonnage of recyclables collected.
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Lynn Bragg
December 1, 2016
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Over the past year, recycling industry stakeholders and governments have taken a renewed interest in how recycling and recovery rates are measured for packaging, including glass containers and other recyclable materials.
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Beverage Container Deposit Refund Programs

U.S. state legislators in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont have recently considered replacing BCDRPs with universal single-stream recycling.
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Lynn Bragg
October 3, 2016
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Today in the U.S., 10 states operate beverage container deposit refund programs (BCDRPs), which provide the most consistent source of quality recycled glass (cullet) for the glass container industry. It’s estimated that these programs supply anywhere from 65-80% of the recycled glass used to make new bottles and jars. Similar to sand, soda ash and limestone, recycled glass is a critical manufacturing input.
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Industry Leaders Join Forces to Strengthen Glass Recycling

Glass container recycling can pose unique challenges to the recycling infrastructure if not planned for and executed correctly.
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Lynn Bragg
August 1, 2016
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The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), along with beverage leaders—including Diageo and New Belgium Brewing—and the glass processing and recycling industries, have gathered a dynamic group of organizations to advance glass recycling in the U.S. Called the U.S. Glass Recycling Coalition, the nearly two dozen member organizations will aim to make glass recycling a successful industry, as well as the efficient, high-quality, and convenient service consumers want and expect.
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Container and Fiber Glass Industries Collaborate

A glass supply chain working group is under way for 2016.
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Lynn Bragg
May 2, 2016
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As frequent readers of this column know, the glass container manufacturing industry has a consistent and strong demand for recycled glass at its 45 glass plants across the U.S. In 2015, glass manufacturers purchased 2.4 million tons of recycled glass for remelting into new containers.


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