‘Have a crack at it': Glass plant to recycle a billion bottles a year

Many people don't realise that they might have driven over the bottles they put in their recycling bins, some as often as twice a day.

How so? Their empties have been reused to help to make the roads we drive on.

Crushed glass sourced from kerbside recycling collections has been turned into sand to build Victorian roads, including the recent Tullamarine Freeway widening from Bulla Road to Power Street.

And two new plants will now divert the equivalent of 1 billion of glass bottles that cannot be recycled from landfill every year.

Read the story from The Age by Debbie Cuthbertson - “‘Have a crack at it': Glass plant to recycle a billion bottles a year.”