WINE66 Green Tips #3

01-02-2009

 

 

After you have enjoyed your favorite wine, don't just throw the bottle away. Your wine will taste better knowing that recycling your bottle will allow to make another one… and the environment will benefit.
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Glass recycling is the process of turning glass waste into usable products.
Wine glass bottles are gathered by a collection truck and bottle banks, and then taken to a glass recycling plant where it is monitored for purity and contaminants are removed. Glass that is crushed and ready to be remolded is called cullet. The cullet is then crushed and added to a raw material mix in a melting furnace. It is then blown or molded into new wine bottles.

To make a bottle of wine of about 350gr, about 420gr of raw materials (sand, lime and soda) at about 1600°C (2912F) are needed. Alternatively 350gr of cullet at 1400°C (2552F) can be used. Therefore, glass recycling not only can reduce 100% of the use of raw materials, but also uses less energy than manufacturing glass from sand, lime and soda (up to 25-30%). Every ton of glass waste recycled into new items saves several hundreds of kg of carbon dioxide.

Glass cullet is also used in the construction industry for aggregate and glassphalt. Glassphalt is a road-laying material which comprises around 30% recycled glass.

A few tips when recycling:

• Clean your wine bottles and remove any tops or corks before recycling.
• Put the glass in the correct bank for clear, green or brown glass. 
• Don’t use bottle banks at night. You may disturb people who live nearby!
• Recycling your glass bottles doesn’t mean littering the area around the bottle bank. Dispose of your empty bags and boxes correctly.
• If a bottle is returnable, it is better to return it rather than to recycle it.
  

Finally, recycle your wine glass bottles! It doesn’t take much but it makes a world of difference!

Thank you for helping the environment!

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