In the EU28, production volume increased by 1. More than 22 million tons or some 50 billion glass containers were sold to customers inside and outside EU markets. All EU countries recorded positive growth although at different paces. Poland posted a 7. Growth in the South-East area 2. Outside the EU zone, Turkey recorded a striking Data refer to container glass for food and drink as well as to flacons for perfumery, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors.
These data confirm a stable trend of the previous years. New furnaces are progressively being rebuilt or adapted with innovative low carbon technologies that are much more energy -efficient than in the past. Our industry reduces energy consumption by making use of waste heat recovery technologies, Organic Rankine Cycles technology, oxy-fuel and other symbiotic technologies, which are bringing significant energy savings.
While energy savings can have a positive effect there are also downsides. New energy management systems and technologies deployed throughout the glass plants are helping to increase energy efficiency. Waste heat recovery from flue gases, when possible, can bring significant energy savings.
Those grades are thus also less available for export. He said single-stream programs have resulted in the declining quality of paper bales, and such programs in the U. In , however, China was on pace to purchase 36 percent less recovered fiber from the U. McCabe announced Jan. The funds will be allocated based on recycling performance in various communities.
The DEP then allocates that money back to municipalities based on how much recycling each community reports accomplishing during a given calendar year. Grants are based on materials collected and recycled in a municipality or county. For calendar year , the most recent year for which data is available, New Jersey generated 9. This resulted in a slight increase in the recycling rate, to 44 percent, from the year prior.
Overall, New Jersey generated Of the total collected, The overall rate for was 63 percent. We remain committed to achieving a 50 percent municipal solid waste recycling rate in New Jersey. Multistream glass typically bypasses materials recovery facilities and goes directly to cullet processors.
Related: Stiff-yet-supple plastic can be reshaped and recycled. But most municipalities in the US stick with single stream because the collection costs are lower than those with multistream systems.
To switch to multistream systems, these municipalities would need to introduce taxes or fees to meet the higher collection and handling costs. And most municipalities are reluctant to do so. But even if the US shifted more to multistream collection, there are other economic factors standing in the way of increasing glass-recycling rates to European levels.
One significant difference between the US and European nations is size. Distances in the US between a materials recovery facility and a cullet supplier, or a cullet supplier and a buyer tend to be greater. Transporting glass waste and cullet is costly because of their weight, and those costs can be a deal breaker for some glassmakers and can prevent would-be cullet suppliers from opening processing facilities.
For example, in the US, some materials recovery facilities do not recover any glass from their single streams because there are no nearby buyers to make it worthwhile, according to Rue. Another factor affecting the costs of recovering cullet from glass waste is that cullet specifications vary from one manufacturer to another depending on the intended application. These costs and limited supplies of quality cullet continue to stand in the way of US manufacturers increasing their use of recycled material.
Most of the efforts to boost glass-recycling rates in the US have been state and local affairs. For example, 10 states have passed so-called bottle bills that require consumers to pay deposits on beverage bottles. The idea is consumers will be more likely to recycle the bottles to get back their deposits.
The laws are having the intended effect. A few communities have set up bottle-redemption centers and instituted separate curbside glass collection. And North Carolina enacted an on-premise recycling bill that requires alcoholic-beverage-permit holders to recycle bottles and cans. But sometimes solving a problem requires grabbing the bull by the horns. The Kansas City, Missouri—based beer maker bemoaned the absence of an active local recycling program, which meant that millions of its empty beer bottles were ending up in landfills.
There was hardly any recycling in the community because there was no local cullet processor. So Boulevard helped launch Ripple Glass, a cullet supplier for which Goth serves as general manager.
Following a European model, Ripple placed 60 large glass-only collection bins across Kansas City and nearby locations and has been successful in spreading the word about the benefits of recycling.
The effort has driven locals to regularly fill the bins with clean, high-quality recyclable glass. Will efforts like these local and state ones bump up recycling rates across the US?
Probably not quickly, experts say. Another factor helping Europe maintain high recycling rates is high landfill costs, which make trashing glass in those countries more expensive than recycling.
And, unlike in the US, recycling is legislated in many European countries nationally, not locally. Europeans have been recycling for many years, and children there are educated about it at school and at home starting at a young age.
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Not Now. Grab your lab coat. Let's get started Welcome! This web page is a brief summary of glass material-specific data. EPA measures the generation, recycling, composting, combustion with energy recovery and landfilling of glass materials.
In , glass generation in all products was EPA combined data from the Glass Packaging Institute with information from state environmental agencies to measure the recycling of glass containers in the United States. The amount of recycled glass containers was 3. The total amount of combusted glass in was 1. This was 4.
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