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Recycling of glass packaging in Republic of Croatia

A wide range of products is produced from glass, since glass is a very widespread packaging material. The production of glass requires the usage of a big quantity of raw materials (silica sand, soda, dolomite, feldspar), and the production cycle itself is extremely energy demanding, so that substantial quantities of energy have to be consumed. The use of old collected and recycled glass reduces the need for the basic raw materials, thus saving energy. Old glass can be remolten several times, not losing in quality. It is used as valuable raw material for the production of glass packaging. From one ton of waste glass, with the addition of energy, one ton of new glass jars will be obtained. The objective of this paper is to present the procedure of collecting and recycling the glass packaging in the Republic of Croatia, which makes it possible to obtain raw material (glass cullet) from the “waste”. This raw material is reused for the production of new glass containers, thus preserving the environment and saving the energy.

Glass packaging; glass recycling; waste management

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