Source: Flick Snappy Clam
4% of all Christchurch’s waste to Kate Valley Landfill is glass – that’s 8684 tonnes in 2008/2009.
About twice that (approx 16,000 tonnes) is recycled. Currently only glass jars and bottles (brown, green and clear glass) can be recycled leaving glass items such as windows, lightbulbs, pyrex containers, medical glass, screens (pc and car) and other specialist glass items going to landfill. As well as finding more uses for the glass we do recycle we need to find solutions for the glass that goes to landfill.
You can find more information from the Glass Packaging Forum and from O-I New Zealand in Auckland, where glass goes to be recycled.
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