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Glass - the only packaging that can be used again and again.
Glass is made from the simplest of ingredients - silica sand, soda ash and limestone. It contains no chemicals or substances that can harm the environment. Best of all, it is naturally 100% recyclable, forever.
When the glass food or beverage container you recycle is crushed, it has virtually returned to its natural state, ready to be made into another glass bottle or jar. This recycling process can continue indefinitely: today's jam jar is next month's juice bottle, honey jar, pickle bottle, coffee jar, liquor container.....
Consumers Glass has always been in the glass recycling business. Currently all the Canadian-made glass food and beverage containers you buy contain an average of approximately one-third recycled glass, up from 7% in 1988. But they can contain much more ... we've set a target of 50% recycled glass in all the glass containers we make by the year 2000.
We can reach that target, and go beyond it, if everybody pitches in and becomes part of the recycling team.
And here's how you can help!
Support your local recycling program by putting used glass containers out for curbside recycling or taking them to a recycling depot
Only container glass can be recycled - mainly jars and bottles used for foods and beverages.
Ceramics, such as ovenware, figurines, garden pots or broken cups, should not be put in for recycling. Instead, they belong in regular household garbage. These materials can't be made into new glass containers. Ceramics do not melt in the glass-making furnace, cause damage to equipment, or result in an inferior glass container that cannot be used or recycled.
Always follow the recycling instructions provided by your local authorities. This will ensure the most effective and efficient recycling.
If you share a driveway with your neighbour, cuddle your recycling container right up to your neighbour's on recycling days to save your recycler's time and energy!
While glass cleaning equipment can remove things like metal caps, neck rings and labels from bottles and jars if they happen to be left on, it can't remove pieces of ceramics or non-container glass. Only you can help.
This check list will give you a good idea of what household items cannot be made into glass containers and should never be mixed with used glass bottles or jars put out for recycling.
With your help, more and more glass can be recycled -- saving valuable landfill space, natural resources and energy for a better environment for the Canada of today and tomorrow.
Copyright ® 1999, Glass Works
