CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................... 3
2. RAW MATERIALS ................................................................................................................................. 3
3. MANUFACTURING PROCESS ................................................................................................................. 4
4. GLASS FAILURE ..................................................................................................................................... 6
5. IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................................ 7
6. RECYCLING ............................................................................................................................................ 8
7. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................................ 8
8. REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................................... 8
1. Introduction
Glass bottles and jars are used by beverage, cosmetic or pharmaceutical industries as packaging material. Their sustainability and ability to keep product quality intact are some of the reasons why they are preferred over plastic bottles and makes them an important packaging material. They are available in various shape, color and sizes according to requirement. The present demand is estimated at 21 million bottles and 8.75 million jars per annum. This is expected to reach at 43.8 million bottles a...
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...duction. As the output from this industry is sold to other industries, this industry is very dependent on the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industry. The major challenges for the industry is to become more energy efficient to reduce energy consumptions and emissions to air. Recycling is effective way to improve environmental performance and reduce production cost. Modern manufacturing methods and recent technological advancements have led to the improvement in environmental performance of the industry.
8. REFERENCES
[1] Profile on production of glass bottles and tumblers, Southinvest
[2] Reference document on best available techniques in glass manufacturing industry December 2001, IPPC.
[3] The future of glass forming technology for the manufacturing of lightweight containers, WRAP.
[4] Recycling_by_material, Wikipedia
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High recyclability – this results in less natural resources used, less waste and emissions used
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The raw materials are then sent to the production shop to be processed in large containers and under certain conditions for product manufacturing. At this stage of the production cycle, high amounts of energy and water are consumed and wastes are generated. Most of the companies in the industry are aiming to reduce the consumption of energy and water, and production of waste with their sustainability programmes and
The process of recycling reduces the amount of carbon dioxide because less material is burn. The recycling is also energy friendly because some products require less energy to reproduce and saves a lot of energy by not producing product again and again.
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Still following the analysis of this factor, we find that this is not a polluting industry, although it has certain waste that needs to be disposed of with care, such as plastic cups and food scraps.
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Environmental health has been a very important issue to talk about internationally these days. We, human beings are leading the earth toward its edge unconsciously. We are using natural resource more than we give to the Mother Nature. Day by Day, people are aware of what damage they do the environment, but they do not care of fixing this damage. In a very simple step, the road of a better healthy environment will begin; recycling is the best idea that illustrate the previous point. To Andrew Roper, recycling is the conversion of waste products into new materials, such as waste paper that can be converts into new paper goods (n.d). There are many types of recycling, for example, there are glass, paper, metal, plastics, textiles and electronics recycling (Evans , 2011). This research will focus on recycling papers in the United Arab Emirates, the benefits or recycling and its effect on the environment, the difficulties of recycling, the process of recycling paper, and the finals products of recycling.
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