Comments on: Berryman welcomes consultations on differentiated glass targets http://www.berrymanglassrecycling.com/2009/12/berryman-welcomes-consultations-on-differentiated-glass-targets/ Glass Recycling Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:28:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Butler http://www.berrymanglassrecycling.com/2009/12/berryman-welcomes-consultations-on-differentiated-glass-targets/comment-page-1/#comment-11 John Butler Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:28:13 +0000 http://www.berrymanglassrecycling.com/?p=605#comment-11 Wrote the following in 2005 (Butler and Hooper 'Dilemmas in optimising the environmental benefit from recycling ... ' In spite of the findings in the previous section, the need to divert household waste from landfill, and the legislative imperative of meeting challenging packaging recycling targets, mean that programmes to increase the possible applications for recycled glass, including its use as feedstock for aggregate and other building material production, have a part to play the short to medium term. However, these programmes should not be pursued to the exclusion of trying to find new markets for the use of cullet as feedstock in glass container production, if the environmental benefit from recycling glass containers is to be optimised. It is, perhaps, one of the missed opportunities of PRN implementation that the system does not distinguish between the different end uses to which recovered glass containers are applied. Thus, PRNs relating to the recovery of glass packaging in aggregate production have the same value as those issued for its more environmentally beneficial use as secondary feedstock in glass container production. rote as following Glad to see that something is now being done about it. Regards Wrote the following in 2005 (Butler and Hooper ‘Dilemmas in optimising the environmental benefit from recycling … ‘ In spite of the findings in the previous section, the need to divert household waste from landfill, and the legislative imperative of meeting challenging packaging recycling targets, mean that programmes to increase the possible applications for recycled glass, including its use as feedstock for aggregate and other building material production, have a part to play the short to medium term. However, these programmes should not be pursued to the exclusion of trying to find new markets for the use of cullet as feedstock in glass container production, if the environmental benefit from recycling glass containers is to be optimised. It is, perhaps, one of the missed opportunities of PRN implementation that the system does not distinguish between the different end uses to which recovered glass containers are applied. Thus, PRNs relating to the recovery of glass packaging in aggregate production have the same value as those issued for its more environmentally beneficial use as secondary feedstock in glass container production. rote as following

Glad to see that something is now being done about it.

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