7. Recycling container glass
7.1 Three solutions for used food packaging
The first is reuse by refilling, using returnable bottles with a limited number of reuses. This method was abandoned in the 1960s, and gradually replaced by two others.
The second solution treats glass as non-specific waste, and it is then landfilled or incinerated like any other household waste. This solution is, of course, completely unsatisfactory and even irresponsible in the current context of waste reduction. That said, it is still partly the case today, since too much glass packaging is still not recycled in France. In fact, in 2009, only six out of ten bottles were recycled.
The third way is to recycle...
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Bibliography
Books and magazines
Regulations
Regulation (EC) no. 1935/2004 of October 27, 2004, materials and articles brought or intended to be brought into contact with foodstuffs.
Standards and norms
- Machines et installations pour la production, le façonnage et la transformation de verre creux - NF EN 13042 -
- Management de l'hygiène dans la fabrication des emballages destinés aux denrées alimentaires - NF EN 15593 -
- Récipients en verre, fabrication et vocabulaire - ISO 7348 - 1992
- Récipients en verre, résistance à la pression interne - ISO 7458 - 2004
- Récipients en verre. Résistance...
Directories
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Food packaging glass manufacturing
• Verre on Line, the French glass portal http://www.verreonline.fr
• Glass Industries Federation http://www.fedeverre.fr
• French Federation of Glass Professionals...
Statistical and economic data
History of hollow glass
There are many different types of natural glass:
space: the result of meteorites, and among these tektites is the glass known as libyque;
atmospheric: the result of lightning action: fulgurites ;
animal: skeleton of certain sponges ;
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