The primary component of glass production is silica sand, which melts at 1700°C and requires 25% more energy than glass collected separately.
The convenience of recycling glass is therefore to save energy during production.
Glass is one of the few packaging that can be recycled infinitely.
Recycled glass saves energy and reduces emissions and raw materials consumption.
Italy ranks second in Europe for glass recycling, with over 1,800,000 tonnes handled, preceded by Germany. The growth in the sector not only reduces resource consumption but also has a positive impact on the environment, preventing 189 million tonnes of raw material and 138 million tonnes of waste from ending up in landfills.
Glass separation and recycling
Based on the experience of working with glass recyclers in countries like France and Italy where glass cullet is characterized by a large quantity of wine bottles with lead sleeves on their necks, SGM has developed a complete range of specific separators for removing both ferrous and nonferrous metal contaminants including free lead, leaded glass, heat resistant glass, other non-ferrous metals and steel reinforced glass.
SGM has extended its experience to many other international glass cullet recyclers and is a technology leader in this field with a complete range of magnetic ferrous separators, eddy current separators, induction sensor based sorters, colour sorters and X-ray sorters.
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