US glass manufacturer calls for Indiana'bottle bill'

• Autores: Emma Hughes
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 548, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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  • "More than 13m tonnes or approximately 200bn aluminium, plastic and glass beverage containers are sold annually in the US, which includes approximately 34bn glass bottles. However, more than 125bn of these recyclable beverage containers (more than 60%) are land-filled each year," Verallia told IM.

    "There is a robust market for recycled glass in Indiana, as the cullet (crushed, recycled glass) demand for the four [glass] manufacturing plants [in the state] far exceeds all the glass containers used in the state annually.

    At present only 15% to 20% of the beer bottles made by Verallia's factory in Dunkirk, Indiana, use cullet, "and we're lucky to get that," Verallia vice president Stephen Segebartha told a joint meeting of the Indiana House and Senate environmental affairs committees.