{"id":284,"date":"2019-03-18T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T11:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsofglass.com\/gb\/ecology-gb\/how-glass-can-benefit-from-global-recycling-day-and-the-great-british-spring-clean\/1"},"modified":"2024-08-28T05:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T05:02:47","slug":"glass-benefit-global-recycling-day-british-spring-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsofglass.com\/uk\/stories\/glass-benefit-global-recycling-day-british-spring-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Great British Spring Clean and Global Recycling Day can help glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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As fresh flowers start to bloom, lambing season begins and the days start to get longer, people often take the opportunity to make a fresh start and form new habits.<\/p>\n

Capitalising on this renewed energy to make a change, two events take place this month that hope to promote the many benefits of recycling.<\/p>\n

The Great British Spring Clean<\/h4>\n

The Great British Spring Clean<\/a> begins today (March 22) for a whole month and will encourage people around the UK to collect and recycle litter from streets, parks and beaches in a bid to improve the environment on our doorstep.<\/p>\n

Run by Keep Britain Tidy, the aim is to inspire 500,000 people to join together and make a difference to their local communities by picking up litter.<\/p>\n

To get involved you can organise<\/a> or join<\/a> a litter pick in your local area,\u00a0or even just pledge your support<\/a>\u00a0to the campaign by spending as little as 15 minutes picking up litter.<\/p>\n

The Great British School Clean<\/a> also runs alongside the event to encourage schoolchildren to get involved, with \u00a31,000 worth of equipment up for grabs just for registering a clean-up.<\/p>\n

However, the Great British Spring Clean wasn’t the only event to take place this month that promoted recycling.<\/p>\n

Global Recycling Day<\/h4>\n

Global Recycling Day<\/a> took place on Monday (March 18) to recognise and celebrate the importance of recycling in securing the future of the planet.<\/p>\n

A number of different events took place across the world, from Nigeria to South Korea via the UK and India<\/a>, to raise awareness of the importance of recycling in helping the environment.<\/p>\n

The day targeted leaders around the world to bring them together in a common approach to recycling whilst also changing the public’s perception on goods around us from waste to resource.<\/p>\n

However, both events were part of a bigger initiative to try and\u00a0 change our behaviour in prioritising recycling over waste.<\/p>\n

But that is exactly how glass should be seen in the first place.<\/p>\n

How glass fits in<\/h4>\n

When it comes to packaging materials, glass should never be seen as waste because it has endless lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That means it never loses its quality or clarity no matter how many times its recycled<\/p>\n

So glass can become a truly circular economy if its continuously recycled.<\/p>\n

As well as this, the amount of virgin raw materials used in the manufacturing of a new glass bottle can be reduced by adding cullet (recycled glass) into the mix.<\/p>\n

This in turn, reduces the amount of Co2 emissions released into the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

However, glass packaging needs to be recycled and not sent to landfill in order to achieve a circular economy.<\/p>\n

So with events such as Global Recycling Day and the Great British Spring Clean raising awareness, we could see even more glass recycled, and this can only be a good thing not just for glass, but for the environment as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Are you looking to lead a more sustainable lifestyle? Learn how glass can help you do just that<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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