Texas Border City Increases Glass Recycling Through O-I Partnership
Recycled glass is an important ingredient in glass manufacturing. A new partnership between a U.S. border city and one of O-I’s plants in northern Mexico shows how collaboration can keep this valuable recycled glass in the manufacturing stream. The City of McAllen, which is located near the U.S.-Mexico border, is about a three-hour drive to […]
Repeat Glass Launches Recycling Subscription Service in Cleveland
In April 2022, Jamie Arnold launched Repeat Glass, the first glass-only recycling pickup service for homes and businesses in the Greater Cleveland Area. Partnering with O-I, Pennsylvania’s CAP Glass Recycling, and the Glass Recycling Foundation, the Cleveland native was determined to create a local, closed-loop economy for glass packaging – a material that had been […]
Renata Tambasco’s Glass Recycling Start-Up Creates New Habits in São Paulo
Recitotal, a glass recycling and processing company based in São Paulo, Brazil isn’t your average recycling collection operation. Led by Managing Director Renata De Moraes Pereira Tambasco, Recitotal employees travel their route by motorized tricycles, collecting glass bottles and jars from bars, restaurants, and condominiums. The project started in 2019. The motorized tricycles are green, […]
Coca-Cola UNITED Partners with O-I to Recycle Glass Bottles
Coca-Coca Bottling Company UNITED is committed to creating a World Without Waste and has a goal of using 50% recycled material in their bottles by 2030. The bottling company is partnering with O-I Glass to capture more recycled glass to be created into new glass bottles. “We previously sent our glass bottles to a local recycler […]
‘Recycle for Pennsylvania’ Makes Glass Recycling Easy
There are more than 400 liquor licenses in Erie County, Pennsylvania. But in 2016, commercial recycling programs stopped collecting glass; it was dropped from curbside recycling in 2018. Prism Glass Recycling of Erie estimates the county sends roughly 7,000 tons of glass to landfills each year. The new Recycle for Pennsylvania program is bridging the […]
Julia Vitrum Plant Produces Improved Cullet for O-I Italy
Glass is an ideal packaging material to support a low-waste circular economy. The Julia Vitrum Cullet Treatment plant in Italy is one of our creative, innovative and collaborative solutions to ensuring more glass stays in the manufacturing loop and out of landfills. The project is a joint partnership between O-I and Italian glass manufacturer Zignago […]
New Colombian Cullet Hub Will Increase O-I’s Cullet Supplies
O-I is opening a new recycling hub for cullet suppliers in Barranquilla, Colombia. A cullet hub is a material collection center where we buy cullet from suppliers in the local area, in this case, the Atlantic Coast, which is more than 550 miles from O-I’s plant. The opening of the facility, located on Colombia’s northern […]
Glass4Good Recycling Program Launches at O-I Danville
The idea behind Glass4GoodTM, a pilot glass recycling program rolling out at O-I Glass plants in the U.S., is that recycling glass is a win-win-win: a win for keeping glass packaging in the manufacturing stream, a win for helping communities recycle and reduce environmental impact, and a win for community support groups who are benefitting […]
Peru’s Plaza Vea Supermarkets Make Recycling Easy with #ReciclaConsciente
Plaza Vea, one of Peru’s largest and most popular supermarket chains, is hoping to make recycling easier for its customers with a new national recycling campaign. The campaign is called #ReciclaConsciente and it’s designed to both educate about recycling in Peru as well as facilitate it. O-I is among the partners. There are two parts […]
Art, Glass, and The Art of Recycling: O-I and SICOVAD Summer Glass Recycling Campaign
How do you encourage people to recycle glass products? You share with them the value of glass recycling and make recycling both easy and convenient. And what better way to increase the awareness than to kick off a summer campaign that combines art and sustainability? The goal of the Containers Tour 2021 in Gironcourt-sur-Vraine, France, […]
