Glass Recycling Norwich
Glass recycling helps the environment and can help your business dispose of waste at a lower cost. Call our local team today for free expert advice and a free quote.
Every year, the average British family have around 500 glass bottles or jars. There are great reasons why these bottles and jars should all be recycled.
The amount of energy needed to melt recycled glass is considerably less than that needed to melt raw materials to create new bottles and jars. Recycling one bottle can conserve enough energy to power a television set for one and a half hours.
Using recycled glass in furnaces saves thousands and tens of thousands of tonnes of primary raw materials each year. This reduces the demand for quarrying raw materials and conserves the countryside.
Every tonne of glass recycled prolongs the life of our increasingly scarce landfill sites and conserves the British countryside. In terms of weight, glass makes up about 8% of the household waste stream. Any rise in the amount of glass recycled means savings on waste collection and disposal costs, which are increasing because of landfill tax.
Every individual can play an effective part in conservation by just supporting glass recycling. This is actually the initial step to becoming an environmentally active consumer.
Estimates indicate that 500 jobs are created for every 100,000 tonnes of glass collected for recycling. Recycling all the glass we now throw away would create 7500 new occupations.
Glass recycling Norwich
Benefits of Compost
Advantages of Compost
Waste Management Norwich’s high specification compost products have a wide variety of benefits and are appropriate for agriculture, horticulture and landscaping.
Most gardeners and farmers are aware of the advantages of applying compost to soil with advantageous rates of potassium, nitrogen and phosphorous which are naturally made by microorganisms in the compost. When used in agriculture, these help to improve crop yield.
As an ideal natural soil improver, Waste Management Norwich’s compost offers the following advantages:
Improved arrangement & texture
Increased moisture retention
Improved aeration
Increased nutritional value
Improved fertility in drained or un-worked lands
Loosens clay lands
Provokes healthy root growth
Please contact us to find out more about the advantages of compost.