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Renata Tambasco’s Glass Recycling Start-Up Creates New Habits in São Paulo

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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

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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

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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 […]

Glass4Good Recycling Program Launches at O-I Danville

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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 […]

O-I Joins Corona in Glass Recapture Summer Pilot Program in Chicago

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O-I is joining Corona and the Glass Recycling Foundation (GRF) for a pilot glass recapture program in Chicago. The project’s focus is to build public awareness of the need to keep glass bottles out of landfills and keep them in the manufacturing loop. As part of the initiative sponsored by Corona, the GRF will collect […]

Art, Glass, and The Art of Recycling: O-I and SICOVAD Summer Glass Recycling Campaign

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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, […]

Pittsburgh’s Pop-Up Glass Recycling Program is a Win-Win

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Glass should never be trash – it’s infinitely recyclable and 100% recyclable. While recycling glass is a no-brainer, it’s not always as easy as putting your used bottles and jars in the curbside bin. When waste haulers serving the Pittsburgh metro area stopped accepting glass in curbside recycling bins at the beginning of 2019, the […]

VIDEO: Colorado Brewery Launches Glass Recycling Program

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A grassroots glass recycling program has sprung up at Crabtree Brewing in Greeley, Colorado, thanks to a little ingenuity, a little bit of recycling education, and a long friendship between a craft brewer and a glassmaker. Bob Kunkle is a second-generation employee for O-I Glass, one of the world’s largest glass packaging manufacturers. Bob noticed […]

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