Do you have the “bottle” to go green?

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40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Tonne

Disposal Recycled

Quantities of Glass Containers Generated in Hong Kong

~100,000 tpa

Beer Bottles32%

Liquor Bottles21%

Food/sauce bottles34%

Non-alcoholic beveragebottles13%

Composition

About 66% are beverage containers

Key BrandsBlue GirlBlue Ice

Blue RibbonBudweiserCarlsbergCorona

Heineken Kingway

San MiguelSkol

Tsing Tao

Source: EPD Waste Composition Survey Data (2008)

exported

Possible Recycling Outlets

washed

reuse

Only 2,700 tonnes in 2009 Recycling rate: 1~ 2%

melted product

Environmental Benefits of Glass Recycling

Glass can be recycled indefinitely into new glass product without lost in weight

Save our precious landfill space If waste glass is used to make new glass

products, save 30% energy and carbon emission

315 kg of CO2 is saved per tonne of glass recycled.

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Inherent Difficultiesof Glass Bottle Recycling

Relatively high logistic cost to collect glass bottles

Low market value of glass cullet Not commercially viable without

financial subsidy Recycling scheme cannot succeed

without producers’ active participation

PRODUCER

Collection

Recycling Distribution

Glass Bottle Management - Corporate Social Responsibility

Consumption Retailing

Production

Bottling

Financially and/or

Physically Responsible

Import

Local Voluntary Recycling Programmes

Rechargeable Batteries, funded by 37 suppliers

Computers, funded by 19 suppliers

Fluorescent lamps, funded by 15 suppliers

Existing Glass Bottle Recycling Programmes

Recovered ~ 1,700 tonnes

What FDGA could help?

Require bottle suppliers to used recycled glass

Establish company policy to recycle glass bottles

Provide funding support for recycling programmes

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