Environmental

A Consol ‘glass bank’ has already been placed on the pavement of the park on Braemar drive. Please make use of the ‘glass bank’ by dropping all your used glassware, beer, wine, and spirit bottles as well as any other glass you have. As soon as the ‘glass bank’ is full, we can contact Consol to empty it.

We are in the process of securing a paper recycling unit from MONDI and a tin unit from Collect-A-Can. Plastic is a little tricky, as the plastic placed in the units needs to be sorted first. So for now, we are not going to make use of a plastic recycling bank.

Did you know that glass can be recycled many times? Recycling one glass bottle saves the same energy as burning one 100-watt light bulb for nearly an hour! It would also power a TV for 20 minutes or a computer for 25 minutes. Recycling glass also saves water and natural resources and reduces waste landfills.

An amazing fact about using cullet (recycled glass) is that there are no fusion losses in the melting process. In other words, one ton of cullet will generate the ability to remake one ton of bottles. In contrast, it takes approximately 1.2 tons of virgin batch material to manufacture 1 ton of glass.

The recovery and recycling of used glass containers have always been of critical importance to Consol Glass. Over the past years, Consol has invested a great deal of finance and staffing in ensuring that glass recycling moves forward from strength to strength. As part of its social responsibility and community development programmes Consol is committed to ensuring that recycling of glass continues to benefit both the environment and entrepreneurs throughout Southern Africa.