{"id":45,"date":"2010-10-23T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/?p=45"},"modified":"2015-01-02T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T09:07:56","slug":"why-should-glass-be-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Why should glass be recycled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glass is made by melting together silica sand the main ingredient and combining soda ash and limestone in a furnace at very high temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Glass is 100% refillable, reusable and recyclable<\/p>\n<p>Recycle glass containers, the crushed glass cullet can be used for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>blast abrasive, water filtration, bricks, fiberglass, aggregates, asphalt and reflective paints etc;<\/li>\n<li>re-melting new glass containers, flat glass and other creative products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Glass recycling conserves energy and environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every tonne of recycled glass used preserves 1.2 tonnes of raw materials. Re-melting cullet for new containers, energy is greatly reduced. 315 kg of CO2 would be saved per tonne of recycled glass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recycle one glass container; we&rsquo;ll save energy to power<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>60 watt light bulb burning for 100 minutes<\/li>\n<li>computer for 25 minutes<\/li>\n<li>washing machine for 10 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: British Glass, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britglass.org.uk\/Files\/Recycling\/GlassRecCounts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.britglass.org.uk\/Files\/Recycling\/GlassRecCounts.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n\tLife Cycle Analysis: Glass Recycling. British Glass<br \/>\n\tThe Best Environmental Use. British Glass<\/p>\n<p><strong>HK low recovery rate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2008, HK recovered about 1% of waste glass bottles while Hongkongers dispose about 300 tonne of waste glass in the landfills every day. The recovery figure turned better in 2009 reached 2.6% but HK still far behind Mainland and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Waste glass is expected to increase corresponding to the rapid growth of wine consumption, predictably 32% on rise in 2012 in consonance with alcohol tariff lift in 2008 and HK regional wine hub promotion. It implies more glass bottles will be dumped. 5 problems would be resulted:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Landfills get full faster;<\/li>\n<li>Increasing cost of glass disposal;<\/li>\n<li>Quarries and other raw materials are further exploited;<\/li>\n<li>Energy inefficient;<\/li>\n<li>Global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source: Monitoring of Solid Waste in Hong Kong. HKSAR Environmental Protection Department: 2008 &#038; 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass is made by melting together silica sand the main ingredient and combining soda ash and limestone in a furnace at very high temperatures. Glass is 100% refillable, reusable and recyclable Recycle glass containers, the crushed glass cullet can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/?p=45\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenglass.org.hk\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}