Hi, I'm Ace Green, Glass Detective. You may of heard of me before or some of my relatives, C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, Jessica Fletcher, Philip Marlowe, Miss Jane Marpole, Dick Tracy and my uncle Ace Ventura. Well enough about this face. I'm here to tell you about the assignment we've been handed. It's a "who done it?", a "where is it?" and a "why don't they?"
We've been asked to solve the problem around missing recycled glass containers. Yes, that's right. Glass containers should be going into your blue box, blue bag or other kind of recycling bin. Only some containers, you know, aren't getting in. Our client is Consumers Glass, the only manufacturer of quality recycled glass containers in Canada.
Consumers Glass knows that there is about 630,000 tonnes of container glass packaged with foods and beverages across Canada each year. They got the tip from NPMS, that's the National Packaging Monitoring Survey conducted by Statistics Canada. When they compared what is coming back to Consumers Glass for recycling against what glass is generated through domestic production and imports, there is a gap, and a big one! Only about 34% is getting recycled! They think the rest of the glass is going to landfill. Yes, I know that's a shock. But Ace Green, Glass Detective is on the job. And with your help, we'll crack this case wide open and find out who's letting the glass go to landfill and why. Our assignment is to figure out what's happening to the other 66%, where is it going, who's not recycling and why. We have to figure out how to get the missing container glass into recycling programs across Canada.
This is not an easy job, but that's why Consumers Glass came to the best sleuthes in the business. Ace Green always gets the glass, clear?
Let's look at the facts. The chart below shows you how much glass is packaged across Canada. The value of the recycled glass is about $41 million* based on what it's worth as a raw material ready for the furnace. Impressive numbers, heh! So we're talking big business here, okay. Now for our instructions on how to report back, go to the next page.
