Retailer demand for recycled glass could rocket after new UK research commissioned by WRAP. The study, conducted in partnership with Sainburys, found that consumers are just as likely to buy products in jars & bottles made from mixed colour recycled glass as they are to buy items in clear glass packaging. WRAP said that this should boost demand for containers with high recycled content. It could stimulate a market within the container glass industry for green cullet which means more of the mixed glass cullet already collected is diverted away from landfill & low value end uses such as aggregates which do not deliver the CO2 savings. One ton of cullet used for remanufacture, instead of virgin raw materials, provides a CO2 saving of 315kg.¡± At present clear (flint) glass accounts for 64% of demand for recycled cullet from UK container glass manufacturers.
