Glass Recycling

Resources

The following resources can provide additional information on glass and cullet including market analysis, trends, and recycling issues.

• British Glass Manufacturers Confederation (www.britglass.org.uk) is a focal point for British glass industry activities.
• California Recycling Advocacy Associations. Recycling advocacy associations actively promote the recovery and use of secondary materials. The California Resource Recovery Association (http://www.crra.com), the Northern California Recycling Association (http://www.webolution.com/NCRA/) and Californian's Against Waste (http://www.igc.apc.org/caw/) are three leading California recycling advocacy groups.
• Chicago Board of Trade (http://cbot-recycle.com/indexst.html) is a recyclables exchange dedicated to the international trade of recyclable commodities.
• Clean Washington Center (CWC), at http://www.cwc.org, is the organization in the State of Washington that develops markets for recycled materials.
• Consumers Glass (http://www.web.net/~glass) is Canada's only manufacturer of glass containers and principal purchaser of recycled glass.
• Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling (http://www.consrv.ca.gov/DOR/index.htm) manages California's beverage container recycling program and collects data on food and beverage container glass recycling. The Division of Recycling also maintains a list of certified glass processors, some of which also beneficiate glass.
• Donico International (http://www.Donico.com) is a U.S. export marketing company. The firm markets the Micro Source System, a high speed rotary glass pulverizer. 1754 West 24th Street, Erie, Penn., 16502-2127, (914) 454-6000.
• Glass Industry is a Glass journal covering issues related to the glass industry. Published by Ashlee Publishing Co., Inc. 18 E. 41st Street, New York, New York 10017 (800) 681-7727.
• Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), at http://www.gpi.org/about.htm, serves as the voice for the glass container industry in Washington, D.C., and across the country.
• Global Recycling Network's Internet Recycling Business Center (http://grn.com) is a free-access public site dedicated to recycling-related information.
• Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), at http://www.isri.org, an international trade association of processors, brokers, and consumers of metallic and nonmetallic scrap commodities. The institute's (http://www.isri.org) Commodities Report is published 24 times a year and focuses on a single scrap commodity in each issue. The Commodities Report also provides domestic and export market analysis.
• Newton's Apple (http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/10/lessons/GlssRecycl.html) provides answers to school-age questions about glass recycling. For example, "What happens to my glass bottles after I put them in a recycling bin?"
• Recycling Coordinators. Nearly every incorporated city in California has a recycling coordinator that should be able to help you in identifying either markets for or sources of recovered glass.
• Recycling Manager (http://grn.com/grn/prices/rm-prices.htm) publishes free-access U.S. prices and commodity market summaries. Prices are based on representative volumes delivered to consumers in each market area.
• Recycler's World (http://www.recycle.net/recycle) is a free worldwide information exchange for those who wish to buy, sell or trade recyclable commodities, used materials and collectible items. Secondary materials can be direct marketed through this free-access public site. Price information is available.
• Resource Recycling has information on glass recycling issues, glass production, shipment, and export data. 1206 N.W. 21st Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209-1609, (503) 227-1319, Email: Resrecycle@aol.com.
• Resource Recycling's Container Recycling Report offers glass container recycling information and market analysis, production and price data. 1206 N.W. 21st Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209-1609, (503) 227-1319, Email: Resrecycle@aol.com.
• Scrap Magazine (http://www.scrap.org) is a bimonthly magazine of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and includes information on market conditions and trends.1325 G Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington DC, 20005, (202) 737-1770.
• Texas Agricultural Extension Service (http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/glassproc.html) publishes information about glass recycling and contaminants in the glass recovery stream.
• U.S. EPA (http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/recycle/index.htm) provides links to glass recycling publications.
• U.S. Glass, Metal, and Glazing is a glass journal covering issues related to the glass industry. Published by Key Communications, Inc., 233 Garrisonville Road, Suite 201, Stafford, Virginia, 22554, (540) 720-5584.
• Waste Age (http://www.wasteage.com) publishes a number of publications that focus on the solid waste/recycling markets industry.
• Waste Age's Recycling Times, at http://www.wasteage.com/RCT/RecyclingTimes.htm, provides recycling market information and price data. Published by Environmental Industry Associations, 4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 300, Washington D.C. 20008, (800) 829-5443.