Recycling plant starves as glass goes to pave roads

15 Oct 2010

Auckland’s recycling system means that most of the city’s waste glass is becoming aggregate in roads instead of feeding a $84 million expansion of the country’s only glass recycling plant, the industry says.


And it’s even hurting the country’s wine exports, as environmentally conscious Europeans reject products without a high enough percentage of recycled glass in their bottles.


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