Morley Glass & Glazing has increased its capacity for recycling post-consumer glass as well as its nationwide product delivery with the addition of six new Luton vans to its fleet.
The Lutons are ideally suited to this dual ‘deliver and collect’ role, says the company, as their layout means that its Uni-Blinds sealed units can be better distributed around the space, so leaving more space for backfill of used glass for its Crush recycling scheme.
The addition of these latest vans increases its vehicle fleet to 36, which deliver around 4,000 integral blind units every week to customers throughout the UK. Crush is a joint initiative from Morley Glass and Saint-Gobain Glass where glass taken from doors and windows is collected by Morley and crushed into cullet at its Leeds site. This is returned in bulk to Saint-Gobain Glass which pay for the glass cullet, which it uses to make new float glass. One tonne of cullet saves enough energy to power a home for six months.
So far, Morley Glass has returned 549 tonnes of cullet, preventing 158,556kg of CO2 going into the atmosphere and saving enough energy to power an average home for 264 years. Recycling the post-consumer glass has also saved nearly 450,000kg of virgin sand.
The money generated from the cullet is put into Morley’s GreenVision fund. This allows local schools, community groups and charities across Yorkshire that focus on improving the environment to apply for a donation of up to £500 towards green projects.
Managing director Ian Short said: “A rapidly growing customer base and increasing sales of Uni-Blinds mean we need to continuously invest in our vehicle fleet to ensure we can maintain our industry-topping lead-times and delivery reliability. But we also have to ensure our fleet best suits the needs of our business today, and as we are bringing more and more post-consumer glass back to Leeds than ever – and we will do even more in future – our new Luton vans tick all the boxes.”
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