{"id":28341,"date":"2026-03-09T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:49:07","slug":"vetropacks-swiss-glass-recycling-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28341\/","title":{"rendered":"Vetropack&#8217;s Swiss glass recycling solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetropack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vetropack<\/a> has proposed a solution for glass recycling in Switzerland after the closure of its manufacturing facility.<\/p>\n<p> The group closed its recycling glass processing facility in St-Prex, Switzerland in late February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time it also presented follow-up solutions for glass recycling in Switzerland: AVJ Transports et Voyages will offer collection and distribution of waste glass for municipal partners in Western Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>Schneider Umweltservice, a partner for glass recycling, has been found for German-speaking Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>After glass production at the site came to an end at the St-Prex, cullet processing was initially continued as a transitional solution for around 30 municipal partners in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Without directly connected glass production, continuing to operate cullet processing is neither economically nor ecologically viable in the long term. <\/p>\n<p>Together with long-standing Swiss partners, Vetropack has worked over the past few months to find suitable follow-up solutions for glass recycling in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>AVJ Transports et Voyages was presented to the municipalities in Western Switzerland \u2013 which includes the region around St-Prex \u2013 as a future partner. <\/p>\n<p>AVJ is an established regional specialist in transport, waste management, and material handling, and has been working with Vetropack for years. <\/p>\n<p>The company has expertise in glass recycling and will expand its activities to offer collection, storage, and redistribution of waste glass in the region. <\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure for this is already in place in Ecl\u00e9pens, which is in a central and well-connected location.<\/p>\n<p>Vetropack has also found in Schneider Umweltservice a partner to cover glass recycling in parts of German-speaking Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>As of April 1, 2026, Schneider Umweltservice will assume responsibility for the hub in Oberglatt offering collection and distribution of waste glass in this region going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vetropack has proposed a solution for glass recycling in Switzerland after the closure of its manufacturing facility. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5735,17181,17178,17179,17180,41,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-28341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-glass","9":"tag-glass-processing","10":"tag-glass-production","11":"tag-hollow-container","12":"tag-speciality-glassmaking","13":"tag-swiss","14":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116200011351754479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}