Photo shows a scene of the CHUAN Malt Whisky Distillery in southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Pernod Ricard/Handout via Xinhua)
BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Pernod Ricard China, a subsidiary of the French-based spirits and wine group Pernod Ricard, and Shanghai Yan Longji Regeneration Resources Co., Ltd. (Yan Longji), a glass material processing enterprise in east China's Shanghai Municipality, announced the preliminary achievements of their cooperative pilot project for waste glass recycling on the World Environment Day falling on Wednesday.
The two sides have recycled 4,200 tonnes of waste glass from slag, which is a by-product of burning household refuse, in Shanghai and Harbin City in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province in less than a year. The recycled glass amount is equivalent to that for making 8.4 million 500g-weighted wine bottles.
Compared with using primary raw materials such as limestone, sand, and soda ash to produce glass, using recycled waste glass for glass-manufacturing can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent.
In addition, the remaining slag after waste glass separation can be used to produce environmentally friendly bricks and other building materials.
(Edited by Su Dan with Xinhua Silk Road, sudan@xinhua.org)
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