O-I Featured on The Weather Channel for Global Recycling Day
On Global Recycling Day, O-I had the opportunity to share the importance of glass recycling with viewers of The Weather Channel. Elizabeth Hupp, O-I Global Social Engagement Leader, spoke live during the network’s climate-focused show, Pattrn. During the segment, Elizabeth talked about how glass is 100% recyclable and infinitely recyclable. She explained that it’s important […]
O-I Brazil Glass Recycling Project Scores at São Paulo’s Morumbi Stadium
O-I Brazil has launched a new partnership to increase glass recycling around soccer games – called Recycle and Make a Goal – that will ultimately reduce waste and lower emissions in the glass manufacturing process. The program has already seen tremendous success. O-I Brazil teamed up with São Paulo’s Municipal Department of Urban Cleaning, the […]
New Video: O-I Creates Glass Recycling Ecosystems Through Glass4Good
Recycled glass is valuable for glass manufacturers. It’s one of the four main ingredients in creating new glass bottles and jars. O-I Glass aspires to make glass recycling available in 100% of the communities where we operate. We’re getting creative to build glass recycling programs to support our communities, and Glass4Good™ has been one of […]
GLASS4GOOD™ Achieves Tremendous Success in Waco, Texas
In only eight months, Waco, Texas, GLASS4GOOD ™ program has recycled more glass than the city recycled throughout the entire year of 2022! O-I In partnership with Keep Waco Beautiful, the City of Waco, and Pernod Ricard created GLASS4GOOD™ in Waco to make glass recycling more accessible to the community. “Since launching in January 2023, […]
Glass4Good Celebrates 2-Year Anniversary
Glass4Good, O-I’s community-based recycling program that incentivizes glass recycling is celebrating its two-year anniversary. Through the program, O-I provides opportunities for residents to recycle their glass, and in turn, we provide a donation to the local United Way based on the amount of collected glass. The program creates more recycled material for our manufacturing system […]
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 Glass4Good Partner Encourages Glass Recycling in New Video
At O-I, our commitment to sustainability includes the vital work of fostering local recycling ecosystems like through GLASS4GOOD™, a community-based program that incentivizes glass recycling. GLASS4GOOD enhances local recycling infrastructures and generates charitable donations in the communities where O-I employees live and work. GLASS4GOOD can create an opportunity for glass recycling where it may not […]
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 […]
New Recycling Hub Launches in Southern Colombia
Our new recycling hub in southern Colombia has officially opened. Strategically located in the city of Yumbo, the facility advances our strategy to increase glass recycling and contribute to the circular economy in Colombia. The hub is operated by our partner supplier, Ecocircular, and joins three existing hubs and direct purchase cullet centers, located in […]
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 […]
