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Greening Glass: Boosting Recycling for Environmental Benefits

Do you have the "bottle" to go green? Hong Kong generates around 100,000 tonnes of glass containers yearly, with key brands like Blue Girl, Budweiser, and Heineken. Unfortunately, only 2,700 tonnes were recycled in 2009, with a dismal 1-2% recycling rate. Recycling glass offers significant environmental advantages, including reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions. However, challenges such as high logistic costs and low glass cullet value hinder widespread recycling. Producers need to actively participate in recycling schemes for a sustainable future. Glass bottle management is a crucial aspect of corporate social responsibility, and initiatives like requiring the use of recycled glass by suppliers can make a positive impact. Existing recycling programs have recovered approximately 1,700 tonnes, but more support is needed to increase glass recycling rates and create a greener environment.

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Greening Glass: Boosting Recycling for Environmental Benefits

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  1. Do you have the “bottle” to go green?

  2. Quantities of Glass Containers Generated in Hong Kong ~100,000tpa

  3. Composition Key Brands Blue Girl Blue Ice Blue Ribbon Budweiser Carlsberg Corona Heineken Kingway San Miguel Skol Tsing Tao Source: EPD Waste Composition Survey Data (2008) • About 66% are beverage containers

  4. Possible Recycling Outlets washed reuse • Only 2,700 tonnes in 2009 • Recycling rate: 1~ 2% product exported melted

  5. Environmental Benefits of Glass Recycling • Glass can be recycled indefinitely into new glass product without lost in weight • Save our precious landfill space • If waste glass is used to make new glass products, save 30% energy and carbon emission • 315 kg of CO2 is saved per tonne of glass recycled.

  6. Inherent Difficultiesof Glass Bottle Recycling Relatively high logistic cost to collect glass bottles Low market value of glass cullet Not commercially viable without financial subsidy Recycling scheme cannot succeed without producers’ active participation 6

  7. Glass Bottle Management - Corporate Social Responsibility PRODUCER Production Bottling Recycling Import Distribution Financially and/or Physically Responsible Retailing Collection Consumption

  8. Local Voluntary Recycling Programmes • Rechargeable Batteries, funded by 37 suppliers • Computers, funded by 19 suppliers • Fluorescent lamps, funded by 15 suppliers

  9. Existing Glass Bottle Recycling Programmes • Recovered ~ 1,700 tonnes

  10. What FDGA couldhelp? • Require bottle suppliers to used recycled glass • Establish company policy to recycle glass bottles • Provide funding support for recycling programmes

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