Morley Glass is encouraging local glazing installers to use our free service to recycle their waste double and triple glazed units, reducing landfill waste costs and help to support good causes in the process.
For more than five years, Morley Glass has been collecting IGUs (insulating glass units) removed by our customers during window and door replacement work across the UK and crushing them into a high quality raw material called cullet. This can be used relatively easily as a raw material for manufacturing new glass.
All the money that we generate through the sale of cullet to our glass producer partner, Saint-Gobain Glass, who operate a factory at Eggborough near Selby, goes into our fund called GreenVision. This provides grants to all kinds of groups, individuals and charities who are working to improve their communities in schemes with an environmental or social focus.
But it is not just Morley Glass customers who can benefit from this free service. We are now inviting any local window and door installers, regardless of whether they buy our products, to drop off their post-consumer IGUs so they can be crushed to raise money for the GreenVision fund.
Ian Short, Managing Director at Morley Glass said: “The more post-consumer glass units we can crush, the more money we can donate to good causes – it’s that simple.
“So, if you are a window and door installer operating in West Yorkshire, and you would like to help us be able to provide more grants to local organisations and individuals, as well as save money on your waste disposal costs, we would love to take your waste IGUs providing you can bring them to us. We are located close to the Gildersome interchange on the Leeds 27 Industrial Estate, so getting to our HQ to drop off your glass is really easy from the M62 and M621.”
Morley Glass is a sustainability pioneer in the UK window industry having successfully created the first successful scheme of its kind for recycling IGUs. We co-designed and installed an innovative machine capable of taking fully intact double or triple glazed units, crushing the glass whilst separating out the spacer bar framing and sealant, and generating a useable bagged raw material at the end.
