VETRECO: CUTTING-EDGE QUALITY
AND EXCELLENCE
Vetreco receives and recovers material from the separate collection of glass from around 700 municipalities in central and southern Italy with a population of over 9 million inhabitants.
With the recent change of authorisation, Vetreco is now able to handle 400,000 tonnes of glass waste per year.
Continuously expanding, Vetreco aims to be a reference point for glass collection and processing for Central Europe.
HOW OFTEN CAN GLASS BE RECYCLED??
Glass recycling is a highly environmentally friendly process:the original raw material can be processed and transformed without any loss of quality in the recycled material. For this reason,glass can be recycled an infinite number of times, 100 per cent, without any loss of material.
THE CYCLE OF GLASS
From a ‘Raw’ cullet, i.e. a waste product mainly coming from separate waste collection to a ‘Ready-to-Bake’ cullet, i.e. a Secondary Raw Material used by glasshouses to replace natural raw materials (natural sand, soda ash, etc.).
Reduction in the use of natural raw materials
for the production of glass packaging, mainly silica sands and soda ash, with a consequent reduction in the environmental impacts of exploiting the relevant quarries.In 2022, glass recycling reduced the use of traditional raw materials (sand, soda ash, carbonates, etc.) by more than 4.2 million tonnes. A quantity that would occupy twice the volume of the Colosseum.
Significant reduction in energy consumption in the glasshouses
in particular, thanks to the use of MPS, the melting temperatures required to obtain glass packaging are reduced. In 2022, the recycling of glass enabled direct and indirect energy savings of 436 million m3 of methane, equivalent to the domestic consumption of more than 260,000 Italian families, the equivalent to the needs of a city of 1.5 million inhabitants, larger.
Reducing CO2 emissions
from glasshouses in melting furnaces. In 2022, glass recycling avoided the emission into the atmosphere of about 2.5 million tonnes of CO2, equivalent to the emissions of about 1.5 million Euro 6 cars circulating for one year, with an average mileage of 15,000 km.
VETRECO’S COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
VETRECO is also committed to the environment in the processing of glass into raw material. In fact, our factory complies with all European regulations to reduce the environmental impact of its production chain.
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VETRECO PLANT IN SUPINO ON SCALA MERCALLI, RAI 3
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