Celebrate Recycle Glass Day
What You Can Do
- Make glass recycling a part of your New Year’s Resolution!
- Give your family a quota for glass recycling; and if you reach it, have a fun activity planned as a reward
- Download the Recycle Glass Day Poster
- Reusing your glass containers is also a positive act for the environment; so, plan an arts and crafts activity where you turn your used glass containers into a piece of art for your house (e.g. vase, pencil holder, paper weight, etc.)
- If you are a Packaging Student at a participating university, enter our YouTube competition
Fun Facts about Glass Recycling
- Making glass from recycled material decreases related water pollution by 50%
- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a 60-watt bulb for four hours, a computer for 30 minutes or a television for 20 minutes. That’s just one bottle!
Download the Recycle Glass Day sticker
