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BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI
Publicat de
Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iaşi
Tomul LVI (LX), Fasc. 2, 2010
Secţia
CONSTRUCŢII DE MAŞINI
STUDY ON THE OPPORTUNITY OF A NEW
GLASS RECYCLING FACTORY FOR REGIONAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
BY
OLGA MARINA MONTES 1 and VASILE V. MERTICARU 2
Abstract. The paper presents a theoretical study and business justification
concerning the opportunity for the establishment of a new factory for glass
recycling, respectively for turning waste glass into raw material for manufacturing
new usable glass products. The presented study is part of a research approach
developed in the direction of establishing the economical and technical conditions
for establishing the discussed glass recycling factory in the province of
Valladolid, autonomous community of Castilla y León from Spain, as possibility
to enlarge the number of similar enterprises, for regional sustainable development.
The state of development for the glass recycling industrial sector in Spain is
discussed and the adequacy of the location is analyzed in the paper, together with
the presentation of related conclusions.
Key words: glass recycling, sustainable development, business justification.
1. Introduction
Sustainable Development permanently represents the crucial goal of
mankind and under this imperative, all the human activities, both social and
economical and of course the productive ones must able to assure the harmony
between profit, people and Earth. It is widely accepted that from engineering
point of view, industrial society in general will reach Sustainable Development
only via Sustainable Manufacturing and via Sustainable Design. In this sense,
industrial development activities starting from plant engineering and design
must be compulsory considered in relation to advanced concepts such as Life
Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). The