In the EU, seven out of 10 bottles are recycled, but it is far from easy.
First, the bottles must be sorted. Euronews watched the process as a plant in Anvers in Belgium, which treats around 250,000 tonnes of glass each year.
Mathieu Berthoud, head of the SITA factory in Belgium explains what happens: ‘‘There are a number of things which have to be extracted from this glass. You have plastic, metal tops, a lot of paper and labels. All this has to be taken out during the separation and production process.’‘
Magnets lift out the metal, while all the other rubbish is removed by hand at a rate of 50 tonnes an hour.
See full Article: http://www.euronews.com/2014/06/25/recycled-glass-is-not-just-green-it-also-pays-off/
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