Glass Packaging Institute
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The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) is a trade association for the U.S. glass container industry. It lobbies on behalf of its members, while providing them with technical, promotional and public relations support.
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[edit] Organization
GPI's Board of Trustees is the core decision-making body in the organization. It is made up of representatives from each of the glass container manufacturing member companies, as well as two representatives from the associate member companies (supplier member companies). The Trustees meet semi-annually for budget, agenda and future planning purposes.
The Glass Packaging Institute recently elected L. Richard Crawford, President of Global Glass Operations, O-I, as the glass container association’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees for a one-year term. Joseph Cattaneo serves as the trade association's President.
The Board is supplemented with a series of committees, including a Marketing Task Force Committee, Government Affairs Committee, Membership Committee and Drawing and Specifications Committee.
[edit] Recycling
Glass containers are an environmentally superior packaging choice. They are nontoxic, pure, have a premium image, and are completely recyclable.
Glass containers are 100% recyclable and reusable:
Glass can be recycled again and again with no loss in quality or purity. Glass containers go from recycling bin to store shelf in as little as 30 days—again and again. In 2006, glass made up 5.3% of the municipal solid waste stream by weight, and of that, 25.3% of all glass containers were recycled. For glass beer and soft drink bottles, 30.7% were recycled that same year. Glass bottles and jars, along with aluminum cans and some papers, have the highest level of recycled content, according to the U.S. EPA.
Glass is the environmental choice:
Made from domestically plentiful, nontoxic raw materials—silica, sand, soda ash, limestone and up to 70% recycled glass—glass is one of the safest packaging materials. The glass container manufacturing plants use the recycled glass material, also known as "cullet", in the furnace batch for use in the production of new glass containers. The use of cullet helps to lower plant emissions, saves energy because it melts at a lower temperature than virgin materials, and keeps glass containers out of landfills.
Glass is superior, light-weight packaging:
Today’s glass containers are also more than 40% lighter than they were 20 years ago.
[edit] Trivia
- Each year it presents the "Clear Choice" award for creative glass packaging.
- Though it is headquartered in Washington, DC and focuses on American legislation, the organization also has members in Canada and Mexico.
