Glass Packaging Forum

April 8, 2020 In Media releases, Recycling

Concern mixed messages over recycling may threaten glass supply chain

The public is being called on to support glass recycling during and after the COVID-19 lockdown to ensure a supply of glass containers to essential food and beverage manufacturers. The country’s only container glass stewardship scheme, the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF) says while the Ministry for the Environment has...

March 31, 2020 In Reuse

Reuse is king at Kapati craft distillery The Bond Store

When it comes to sustainability the waste hierarchy is the simplest and often best guideline, and it’s no different for packaging. In the hierarchy reuse is king and no other packaging material is better suited to this than glass. While reusing glass bottles and jars at scale around New...

March 27, 2020 In Member updates, Recycling

GPF COVID-19 update

New Zealand moving to COVID-19 Alert Level 4 has had wide-ranging impacts across society, with recycling among those. The Glass Packaging Forum has been working to ensure the flow of recycled glass to the furnace continues. Read more. ...

February 10, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Grant keeps South Island glass recycling on the up

South Island glass recycling has been given a boost after the Glass Packaging Forum helped upgrade the 5R Solutions hub in Christchurch. The Forum funded a grant of just over $11,500 for the construction of storage bunkers at 5R Solution’s new glass recovery facility in Hornby, which opened...

February 4, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Funding top-up boosts Wairoa glass recycling, sustainability

The new storage bunkers Wairoa’s refuse transfer station means up to an extra 150 tonnes of glass can be recycled each year. Recyclable glass ending up in landfill due to space constraints has become a thing of the past in Wairoa. This, thanks in part to a...

January 27, 2020 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Upper Hutt glass recycling grows in leaps and bounds

Upper Hutt City Council's Waste Minimisation Officer Millie Porter uses the newly upgraded public recycling centre. Upper Hutt’s recycling drop-off centre has proven so popular since it was upgraded in April 2019 its glass recycling capacity has had to be doubled. The Glass Packaging Forum, which helped fund the...

December 18, 2019 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Grant boosts Marlborough’s glass recycling

The Blenheim Resource Recovery Centre has nearly doubled its glass recycling capabilities, thanks in part to a $15,000 grant from the Glass Packaging Forum....

December 13, 2019 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Grant helps take recycling to Whanganui pensioners

Recycling has become far easier for residents at three Whanganui pensioner housing complexes after the installation of recycling containers....

December 2, 2019 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Tokoroa glass recycling made simpler, safer thanks to funding boost

Glass recycling at the Croad Place Recycling Centre in Tokoroa has been made simpler, quicker and safer thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Glass Packaging Forum....

November 12, 2019 In Grants and Funding, Recycling

Grant keeps glass recycling shipshape at Havelock Marina

Port Marlborough has upped its sustainability efforts at the Havelock Marina with the instillation of a dedicated recycling hub, partly funded by a Glass Packaging Forum grant. The grant, of $10,000, is in addition to investments made by Port Marlborough into a dedicated recycling hub at...

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