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 […]
O-I Glass Named Among ‘America’s Most Responsible Companies 2023’
Newsweek has named O-I Glass to its “America’s Most Responsible Companies 2023” list. The list spotlights 500 leaders in sustainability among the U.S.’s largest public corporations across a dozen industries. O-I Glass is among the world’s leading, sustainable producers of glass bottles and jars for food and beverage companies. Our vision is to be the […]
O-I BJC Malaysia Glass Ambassadors Launch Student Glass Recycling Contest in Johor
O-I BJC Malaysia’s Glass Ambassador Program has launched its first student competition for glass bottle recycling. The program’s goal is to reduce solid waste deposits in landfills by increasing public awareness of the benefits of glass bottle recycling for environmental sustainability and the circular economy. The contest runs on KITARecycle, a smartphone app designed 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, […]
Pennsylvania State Senator Cris Dush Presents O-I Brockway with ENERGY STAR® Certificate
Pennsylvania State Senator Cris Dush presented the ENERGY STAR® Certificate to O-I’s Brockway facility at a press conference in Brockport, Pennsylvania, today. State Representative Brian Smith was also in attendance. O-I Brockway earned the ENERGY STAR® certification in 2021 and is one of two Pennsylvania manufacturers included in the EPA’s “2021 Most Energy Efficient Manufacturing […]
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 […]
ENGIE and O-I Drive Green Electricity Transformation in Europe
O-I Glass, Inc. (“O-I”) (NYSE: OI) and ENGIE’s business entity “Global Energy Management & Sales” reached a long-term agreement for ENGIE to initially provide an aggregate 4.3 TWh of renewable electricity to O-I sites in Europe. Over a ten-year period, ENGIE will supply O-I facilities in Europe with electricity generated from solar, wind and hydro […]
‘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 […]
O-I’s Rio de Janeiro Plant Offers Brazilian Sign Language Training
In 2018, O-I’s Rio de Janeiro plant employees asked management a vital question: What was the best way to connect with the plant’s 17 deaf employees? During a Diversity and Inclusion training on unconscious biases, the question came from shop floor employees. After discussing with the Unlimited Employee Resource Group (ERG) team for the entire […]
