More glass for recycling

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33858, 2 June 1975, Page 4

More glass for recycling

The amount of glass for recycling collected in Christchurch and other parts of the South Island has more than doubled over the last year, according to the publicity liaison officer for the A.H.I. Glass Products Group (Mr V. R. Parker). The number of public col-' lection centres in supermarkets and shopping centres

; had also increased from about, I six to about 50, 30 of them! . in Christchurch, Mr Parker . said. . Some 3000 tons of glass 1 had been collected from • these centres during the last •’year (10,000 tons were col-' elected in the North Island). , Before that, in the first six I ’ months of operation, the total 1 was only about 700 tons. Mr Parker said that until} now, the Christchurch recyc-. ;ling plant, the only one in; the South Island, had ■ accepted clear, amber; - and!

mixed-coloured glass from thej ’collection centres. However, the increasing volume of mixed glass for recycling was now beyond the plant’s capacity, mainly because items ■such as beer and wine bottles iwere made only in the North Island. The company now was thinking of installing collec-j 'tion bins for clear, amber. I :and green glass only. The clear glass would conItinue to be processed in 'Christchurch, while the rest would be sent to the A.H.I. iplant in Auckland, which handled most of the recycling for the North Island.