Glass

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Glass collections

Guidance to help you improve your collection service

Glass Market Knowledge Portal

Keep up-to-date with trends and prices

Glass and the hospitality sector

Recycling glass in the hospitality sector

Specifying recycled content in glass

Helping to increase the recycled content in glass

Glass and the grocery sector

Tools and research to help the grocery sector

Wine packaging

Opportunities to reduce waste and achieve cost savings

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Windows Sustainability Action Plan

The Windows Sustainability Action Plan identifies resource efficiency actions already taking place in the sector and...

Retail supply chain - research, case studies and trials

The following projects are in progress:

Recycling glass from glass compactors

This work looked at the potential for crushed glass derived from licenced premises to be processed to a quality suitable for remelt...

GlassRite: wine lightweighting and bulk importation

May 2008

In 2007 the UK consumed 1,360 million 75cl bottles of wine, which contributed around half a million tonnes of packaging...

Feasibility and demonstration trials for SME recycling

A series of feasibility and demonstration trials for the collection of material for recycling from Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (...

Glass packaging recovery & recycling

Materials Market: Glass packaging

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