About Friends of Glass

Friends of Glass is a community which supports everything about glass packaging and helps you include glass in your lifestyle.

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Why Glass?

Learn why we love glass, and why we’re dedicated to promoting its numerous benefits to people all over the world.

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Join a growing community of people who care about a better planet and a healthier lifestyle.

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Stories

Hear stories from the community, and discover all the reasons why glass is better for us, and better for the planet.

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We believe glass is the clear choice for healthy packaging that helps us to live better.

Health

Thanks to its inert qualities, glass can be trusted to shield and protect any food, beverage, perfume, or medicine – so you can be sure that taste, quality and nutrition stay as they should. That’s what makes it the healthy packaging choice.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Glass packaging is a safe, single-layer material, made from ingredients found in nature – no chemicals or plastic linings needed!

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Environment

Once produced, a glass bottle becomes the main resource needed to produce new bottles – meaning the more recycled content that can be used through improving recycling and furnace technology, the more we can reduce our need for virgin raw materials.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The same glass material can be recycled again and again into new bottles and jars, without losing any quality.

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Taste & quality

Why do drinks taste better in glass? Unlike other materials, glass doesn’t need any extra layers, synthetic chemicals or additives to protect what’s inside. Whether it’s cola, beer, milk or wine, experience the full flavour – choose glass.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Glass is “inert”. That means that there are no chemical reactions between product and packaging.

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Experience

Shaped by bold, powerful and iconic design, glass has been used to make a statement for thousands of years. Glass isn’t just beautiful – it magnifies beauty and elevates brands.

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DID YOU KNOW?

More and more producers are using recycled glass, switching to renewable energy and designing lighter bottles to make glass manufacturing more sustainable.

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History

Who invented glass? Where does glass come from? It’s no accident that glass containers have been used for thousands of years, and why it continues to stand the test of time.

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DID YOU KNOW?

The first known glass objects date to 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). But historians believe that the history of glass making goes as far back as ancient Egypt, 5,000 years ago!

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