Glass Bottles in Goa

Glass bottles are made from sand and are a limited resource. Although it can be recycled technically, due to its weight, risk in handling especially broken ones, its tough to collect store and transport to a recycling facility.

In Goa, we face this issue especially on tourist destinations like beaches, waterfalls, picnic spots where bottles are broken and dumped. Replacing the glass bottles with cans is not the best thing either. Because even cans need to be made from aluminum and that too is a limited resource.

What then are the options we have ?

1. A return policy to be enforced along with a security deposit for whoever buys the drinks.

2. Enforcing the cess which is already there from the various manufacturers. ( Cess notification attached in this post)

3. Have regular collection drives for picking up broken glass by citizens

Just starting this thread so that we can discuss and chalk out plans on this.

Any thoughts or suggestions please #ComePost on the forum

4 comments

4 Comments

Johnson Stephen

Sep 21, 2022

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Can the glass not be crushed into coarse size and used in various applications?

ComePostVille

Sep 22, 2022

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Hi Johnson, It can be crushed into very small powder, however we need to explore the applications which will be ready to pay for such powder so as to offset the crushing and transportation costs.

Check out the below link. If there are multiple takers in the community, we could get this machine in Goa.

www.glass2sand.in

Glass2Sand

Glass2Sand is an environment-friendly zero waste initiative and a “no glass to landfills” movement that addresses the growing menace of glass bottles being dumped into landfills by crushing them to valuable sand.