WASTE

When a wine bottle, glass pasta sauce jar, window or the windshield of a car becomes waste at the end of its life cycle, it may go one of two ways:

• it may be sent to landfill, which is wasteful and harmful to the environment

• or it may be collected separately for recovery and recycling, beginning a new life as another glass product.

Eurovetro transforms waste into a raw material that the glass industry can use to make new products.

The collection of sorted municipal glass waste

After having finished a bottle of wine or served a dish of pasta with an excellent olive oil and tasty tomato sauce, it is our responsibility as citizens of the Earth and as people who care about the fate of our environment to correctly dispose of the empty packaging using our city’s sorted waste collection system.

The most common collection systems are:

• kerbside containers;

• containers at individual houses, buildings and businesses;

• municipal waste collection centres.

Glass from Industry, Skilled Trades and Commerce

Eurovetro organizes scheduled pick-ups with logistics specifically designed for the production facilities that generate glass-based processing scraps and waste:

• Glassmaking;

• Manufacturing of glass and glass products;

• Industrial and non-industrial demolition;

• Windshield replacement;

• Car demolition;

• Production/Distribution of beverages, wine and spirits;

• Bottling;

• Manufacturing of packaging, bottles and vials;

• I.V.s from healthcare facilities

Eurovetro is authorized to accept and manage the recovery of glass containers from healthcare facilities provided that they meet the characteristics specified in Article 5 of Presidential decree no. 254/2003 and, in particular, that:

1. they are not contaminated with blood products or similar substances;

2. they do not contain needles and/or cannula or other medical administration accessories;

3. they are not radioactive pursuant to Legislative decree no. 230 of 17 March 1995, as subsequently amended and integrated;

4. they do not contain antineoplastic drugs;

5. they are not contaminated with biological material;

6. they were not used with patients in isolation due to infectious disease;

Eurovetro therefore acts as a partner in the recovery of various types of glass waste, analyzing and designing the best logistics and industrial solutions in accordance with specific technical, environmental and legislative regulations.