Earth911 Receives ‘Friend of Glass’ Award
Earth911.com received the Glass Packaging Institute‘s (GPI) first annual “Friend of Glass” Web site award today. Earth911 was recognized as a “model Web site for its achievements in making significant and innovative efforts to promote glass container recycling for bottle-to-bottle use.”
With more than 13,000 locations in the U.S. listed in our database that accept the material, Earth911.com provides a way for people to get connected with local recycling resources in their communities.
“Glass is one of the top 10 most searched materials in our database, indicating to us a strong level of commitment to keep as much of this material as possible in the recycling and manufacturing streams,” says John Furman, CEO of Earth911.com.
If the U.S. doubles its glass recycling rate, it could help power more than 21,000 homes annually.
Earth911.com is among the seven “Friends of Glass” and “Best Friends of Glass” recognized by GPI during Recycle Glass Week, Sept. 21 – 27. Other award-winners include:
- The Hyatt Regency Atlanta (hospitality industry)
- The City of Ft. Collins, Colo., Natural Resource Department (community)
- Representative Jay Inslee (legislator)
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
- McIlhenny Company, makers of TABASCO® Brand Products
- Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc.
Recycle Glass Week is an awareness event to educate consumers about the environmental benefits of and to encourage participation in glass container recycling to help save energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and facilitate the industry’s nationwide goal of using 50 percent recycled content in the manufacture of new glass bottles and jars by 2013.
According to the GPI, doubling the U.S. glass container recycling rate (it was 28 percent in 2007) would allow manufacturers to use 50 percent recycled glass to make new glass containers, saving enough energy to power 21,978 homes for one year and removing 181,550 tons of waste from landfills every month.
“We believe that partnerships with ‘Friends of Glass’ like Earth911.com are imperative to facilitating better collection and recycling processes for glass bottle-to-bottle recycling to help save energy and our environment,” says Joseph Cattaneo, president of the GPI.
