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GPI Launches Carbon Calculator |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
Recycle Glass Day will be on Dec. 10, 2008, according to The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI). This annual event is designed to help build national awareness about the benefits of glass container recycling to save energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and better the environment. Now on the Recycle Glass Day website , consumers can use a Carbon Calculator to find out how much carbon they save from recycling glass containers.
"We hope this awareness event will result in higher levels of glass collected for recycling and create positive attitudes about recycling overall," says Joe Cattaneo, GPI president. "Recycling is an integral part of the cradle-to-cradle process of glass packaging manufacturing. Every time a consumer recycles a glass jar or bottle, they help to save energy and our environment."
The use of recycled glass in the manufacture of new glass bottles, jars and other products actually reduces the amount of energy needed to make a new product, and because there is no limit to the number of times glass can be recycled, the environmental benefits of glass recycling are unique in the container industry. As a rule of thumb, for every 1 percent of recycled glass used, energy costs drop 0.5 percent. A 10 percent increase in recycled glass use decreases fossil fuel emissions by 2.5 percent and decreases particulate emissions by 7 percent. |
