O-I Celebrates Global Recycling Day Looking at the Progress and Future of Glass Recycling
In honor of Global Recycling Day, O-I hosts a podcast discussion with VP of Sustainability, Jim Nordmeyer on glass recycling facts and myths. While March 18 is marked as Global Recycling Day, at O-I we believe every day should be recycling day. Nevertheless, the celebration allows us to reflect on recycling – the progress we […]
O-I Looks Back, and Forward, on Global Recycling Day
O-I has marked the latest Global Recycling Day (18 March 2019) by looking at its progress on glass recycling and outlining a fresh vision. As research indicates that more and more consumers would stop buying goods that have non-recyclable packaging (36% of European consumers, 25% in the US, 35% in Australia), the reputational and bottom-line threat […]
Ever Been Thanked By a Dolphin While Checking Out Your Groceries?
If not, there’s a first time for everything. Ahead of World Oceans Day on 8 June, Friends of Glass built custom pop-up checkouts in selected supermarkets that triggered a message of thanks from on-screen dolphins. Whenever a glass-packaged item was scanned, unsuspecting shoppers across Europe found themselves face-to-face with a pod of dolphins who thanked them for choosing glass. Watch their reactions: Conversations about packaging waste flow back to the ocean, the sea, the environment. By 2050, […]
How Does Glass Answer Society’s Need for a Sustainable Future?
Across the world, we have never been as aware as we are now of the impact of human activity on the environment. Whether we’re watching plastics strangling and poisoning our fish, dioxins released by burning waste in Africa, climate change aggravating floods in Bangladesh or wildfires in California, the environment is seldom off our television screens and news media. […]
