Sorting and Treatment Plants

Berryman’s sister company Reuse Glass operates some of the world’s most advanced cullet sorting and treatment plants. Located in London, West and South Yorkshire and Kent, they use sophisticated optical and mechanical processes to ensure that cullet of the highest quality is available for re-processing.

Raw Cullet Collection

Raw cullet from bottle banks, kerbside, or MRFs are transported to our cullet treatment plants for processing.

Reuse Glass treatment plant

Reuse Glass cullet treatment plant (bottom left) alongside the Ardagh Glass factory in Knottingley, West Yorkshire.

Crushing and Cleaning

Large conveyors carry the raw cullet in to the processing plant where it is crushed through vibrating screens and cleaned.

Manual Sorting and Picking Stations

Manual sorting of larger contaminants.

Magnets and Metal Detection

Magnets and metal detectors remove unwanted materials and bottle tops.

Vacuum

Vacuum heads remove lighter contaminants such as paper.

Lasers

State of the art laser technology identifies and removes any unwanted contaminants.

Pyroceramic Detection and Colour Separation

Sophisticated X-Ray inspection removes potentially troublesome and otherwise undetectable contaminants such as ceramic and ovenware. We also use colour separation technology to separate cullet into the three colours – clear (white), amber (brown) and green.

Conveyors

Conveyors carry the quality reprocessed cullet direct to the glass factory for re-melt.