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Students Challenged to Explore the Limits of Glass
Renowned designer and lecturer Josh Owen has challenged his students at the Rochester Institute of Technology to explore the use of glass in design. The project – known as metaproject02, was run in...
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Closing the Loop on Plastics
The glass industry rightly prides itself on its closed-loop recycling process. Established since 40 years, the closed-loop ensures that all available glass goes back into making new glass, thereby...
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Preserve your summer in glass!
Our friends at the Spanish Glass Packaging Manufacturers Association (ANFEVI) have launched a new Friends of Glass app which enables you to keep everything you love in glass! Just take a photo of...
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EC Invites Consumers to Consider a More Sustainable Lifestyle
The European Commission (EC) has launched a new initiative to promote resource efficiency – Generation Awake. The website aims to promote ways to use the earth’s limited resources sustainably and doing...
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MEPs talk Glass!
The inaugural meeting of the MEP Policy Dialogue on Glass Packaging took place in the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 September 2012. Hosted by members of the European Parliament (MEP) Dr Filip...
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Meet our Little Taste Testers from all over Europe!
Today, we are launching a new campaign on our Facebook page: The Little Taste Testers! http://bit.ly/LittleTasteTester If you drink or eat food, you can trust blindly on glass packaging. We turned that...
View ArticleHelp Save Tuscany’s Glass Blowing Heritage
Five years ago, glass artist Isak Lystad moved from Seattle (US) to Tuscany (Italy) to practice his craft and learn from the masters. But when he arrived in Florence he found that many of the glass...
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Switch to Glass – It’s Better For Your Health
A new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives has found that much of our exposure to Bisphenol-A (BPA) comes from foods packaged in plastic. During the study, five families ate their...
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Friends of Glass put thousands of tasters to the test at major food show
How easy is it to tell the difference between two popular flavours such as apricot and strawberry? Colour is one obvious clue, taste the other. But as Friends of Glass, the pan-European forum that...
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Glass recycling in Europe – an infographic!
Recycling glass is cool, recycling glass is hot (literally, you need quite a few degrees to recycle glass), but above all: recycling glass is necessary. For you, for me, for our planet. FEVE has been...
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Imitating glass – it’s not natural!
In English we have a saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It means that if you are doing something right, everyone will try to copy you. So it is with glass. Around the world,...
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Anadolu Cam Poster Design Competition 2013
Anadolu Cam, the glass packaging division of the Turkish Şişecam Group, held a poster design competition in the beginning of 2013. The concept of the competition was “Glass Bottles and a Sustainable...
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Glass Packaging: Go the whole 9 yards with healthy eating
We all care about what we eat, right? We care about ourselves, so we care about what goes into our bodies. In fact, healthy eating has become one of the no.1 things for consumers to worry about each...
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Glass Packaging: Helping Parents Everywhere!
You know that feeling you get when you buy something new and special? Maybe a new phone, or a car – something you’ve been saving up for, for a long, long time. And when you finally get it, you look...
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Glass and Food – The Clear Solution
Did you know that there are an estimated 842 million hungry people on the planet? That number will only continue to grow as the world’s population is projected to expand and the production of basic...
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Happy Halloween!
The nights are growing longer and the leaves are turning colour which can only mean one thing – Halloween is almost here! Did you know that “trick-or-treating” actually evolved from an ancient Celtic...
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European Week for Waste Reduction Week Needs You!
Did you know that each year in the European Union alone, we throw away more than 3 billion tonnes of waste? That’s billions—with a ‘b’. Around 90 million tonnes of this waste is hazardous. With so...
View ArticleA Glass Tale – the story goes on…
Have you ever wondered what the glass recycling process looks like? Let’s follow the journey of glass in this little story! We’re on a little truck full of bright pieces of glass. We’re travelling...
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Glass Will Clear the Way for 2014
You’ve eaten the last of the sweets, cleared away the Christmas decorations and greeted the New Year with open arms. Maybe in 2013 you smoked too much, or were too messy or never quite got around to...
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Designing the Future of Glass
The future is now. At least, that’s what the people at Verallia Portugal believe. The role of glass as a food and beverage packaging material has a rich history extending back thousands of years....
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